Published Date: 03 June 2009
NEWCASTLE UNITED have emerged as the new favourites in the bid to sign transfer-listed Leeds United striker Jermaine Beckford.
Beckford is understood to be high up on a wish-list of summer transfer targets being drawn up by the Magpies - although they have yet to firm up their interest.
The sense of limbo, both in terms of the ownership and mangerial situation at the club, means that incomings transfers are currently on hold on Tyneside.
But Beckford is thought to be prepared to wait for the Geordies to firm up their interest before committing himself to a transfer elsewhere - providing Leeds accept any bid for him in the first place.
Middlesbrough, Coventry and Sheffield United are also interested in the free-scoring 25-year-old, but Leeds have yet to receive a concrete offer.