New Millwall signing tipped for Premier League future
Millwall confirmed the signing of talisman Macauly Langstaff from Notts County last week, the London club forking out a fee believed to be around £700,000 for the player who bagged 28 goals in League Two last season.
The 27-year-old has been a division’s top scorer in each of his past three seasons, moving from the National League North with Gateshead to the National League and then League Two with Notts County. Langstaff has signed a long-term contract at The Den but Gateshead manager Rob Elliot has tipped the player for future stardom.
Speaking about the deal, which has been of financial benefit to Gateshead too, he told the Sunderland Echo: “I genuinely think it’s just another step on his journey to the Premier League if I am honest. First and foremost, he’s just a brilliant person and whenever I came in he was the life and soul of the place. He always had something about him and it was always a case of once he clicked he could do anything he wanted.
“I really hope this is another step on his journey and I think Millwall have done a very good piece of business. Notts County have progressed him well and the start Mike (Williamson) and Ian (Watson) gave him at Gateshead held him in good stead. We are just really proud as a club we are helping players that are going into the higher levels of the game, whether that’s our own players or players we have taken on loan.”
