The striker had already signed a four-year deal with the Magpies but has been granted a work permit to allow him to complete the switch from Mainz <\/p>\n
Newcastle United have completed the signing of striker Yoshinori Muto after he was awarded a work permit.<\/p>\n
The Magpies had to wait for the relevant documents to be ratified in order to complete the deal, despite Muto having already agreed a four-year contract.<\/p>\n
The club confirmed on Wednesday that the process has been completed, meaning he becomes their fifth signing of the transfer window, following Martin Dubravka, Ki Sung-yueng and Fabian Schar and the loan deal for Kenedy.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n However, the 26-year-old will have to miss Saturday’s friendly with Augsburg while he waits to be granted a visa.<\/p>\n “As the first Japanese Newcastle United player, I am honoured to be a player for such a big club,” said Muto, who joins from Mainz for a reported \u00a39.5 million ($12m) fee.<\/p>\n “I hope to achieve good results \u2013 that is what I am here to do. I would like to perform well and leave my name in Newcastle’s history.”<\/p>\n Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez added: “I am really pleased to have Yoshinori Muto with us. We were following him for quite a while.<\/p>\n “Hopefully, he can bring us his energy and work rate and help the team to improve and be better for the new season.”<\/p>\n The news is a boost for Benitez, who admitted after Wednesday’s 4-0 friendly loss to Braga that he is “really worried” about Newcastle’s hopes for the season.<\/p>\n “When things are not going well off the pitch you can see a reflection on the pitch,” said the Spaniard, who admitted “everything” behind the scenes gave him cause for concern.<\/p>\n “The fans have to be concerned, we are concerned. I’m really worried.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The striker had already signed a four-year deal with the Magpies but has been granted a work permit to allow him to complete the switch from Mainz Newcastle United have completed the signing of striker Yoshinori Muto after he was awarded a work permit. The Magpies had to wait for the relevant documents to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n