Seriously doubt it considering he is travelling with the Newcastle squad on their pre-season tour and has been shown around by Sammy Ameobi all of today
Pardeux has a policy of playing a new team member as soon as possible. He also has a good record of blooding youth, Sammy Ameobi, Haris Vukic, Mehdi Abeid, Shane Ferguson etc...
Will we see him start against Manchester United? no.
Could he come on at 75 minutes against West Bromwich? very possibly.
No he's gone now, made his bed etc, plus L1 is a tough division & we need players who are tough & experienced to get us out of it & he's not one of them. Yes he might turn out to be a good player but we can produce more of the same, plus we could get a good sell on fee one day!!!!
The deal may work out good all round for a number of reasons. Last season with both Bigi and Thomas in the same team we were very inexperienced and lightweight. I don't feel there is room in the first Xl for both of them at this stage in their development. I felt Thomas was the better all round player at this stage in their development and playing next to a bit of experience in Kilbane will now have an opportunity to kick on further.
Plus we get a few £ to cover some debts and hopefully get a pacy winger type in to give us further attacking options.