Butt Finally Agrees It's Time to Leave United ; Newcastle Pay Pounds 2.5m for Slice of Old Trafford Experience

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NICKY BUTT will join Newcastle in a Pounds 2.5 million deal when he returns from Manchester United's tour of America next week.

The 29-year-old midfielder has been asked to stay on in the States by manager Sir Alex Ferguson to bolster his depleted squad but will have a medical at St James' Park on his return after United agreed to halve their original asking price.

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Butt Finally Agrees It's Time to Leave United ; Newcastle Pay Pounds 2.5m for Slice of Old Trafford Experience

Butt, whose contract will be worth Pounds 35,000 a week, becomes Sir Bobby Robson's third major signing of the summer following James M...

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