Newcastle United have ‘discussed’ the possibility of signing former Crystal Palace striker Alexander Sorloth this summer – according to the Mail. Sorloth currently plays for Atletico Madrid, but has reportedly fallen out of favour under Diego Simeone.

The Norwegian international scored 24 goals in all competitions for Atletico last season, just two fewer than he managed a season prior with Villareal. Sorloth has found the net on 55 occasions during his last three La Liga campaigns and has emerged as one of Europe’s top strikers.

However, there has reportedly been a falling out between the 29-year-old and his manager with Atletico potentially set to allow Sorloth to leave the club before the end of the summer window. Sorloth played just eight minutes of Atletico’s league opener against Espanyol at the weekend, a game they would surprisingly lose 2-1 against a team that narrowly avoided relegation last term.

That match saw two teams that had played at St James’ Park just a week prior pitted against each other. In those pre-season games against the Magpies, a late Kike Garcia header rescued a draw for Espanyol a day before Siemone’s Atletico secured a comfortable 2-0 win.

Sorloth didn’t start against the Magpies in that game, but came on just after the hour mark as Simeone made eleven changes at once.

He didn’t find the net in that game, but did set up Antoine Griezmann just minutes after the pair entered the field of

Alexander Sortloth’s Premier League experience

Sorloth, once a teammate of Alexander Isak at Real Sociedad, has experience of playing in the Premier League. Although it will be one he would largely like to forget.

Back in 2018, a then 22-year-old Sorloth was bought by Crystal Palace to spearhead their attack. Palace had been fired up by goals from Wilfried Zaha and Sorloth was added to bring a physical presence to their front line.

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However, he would find the net just once in 20 appearances in all competitions for the Eagles before being sent on-loan to Belgian side Gent. Palace were ultimately able to make a profit on the striker when they sold him to RB Leipzig in 2020, although they were never truly able to benefit from goals he scored on the pitch with his sole Palace goal coming in August 2018 in a clash against Swansea City.

Reflecting on his time at Selhurst Park to TV2 in 2020, Sorloth blamed an ill-timed injury as the root cause of his unsuccessful spell in England: “I had a wrongly cancelled goal against Chelsea in one of the first matches. If I had scored, then I might have cemented my position in the team. The following week I was going to start against Huddersfield, but unfortunately, I suffered an injury.