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Newcastle closing in on £10m Cisse deal as Maiga deal hits a snag

 

By Sportsmail Reporter

 

Last updated at 11:34 PM on 30th August 2011

 

 

Newcastle are trying to tie up a £10million move for Freiburg's Papiss Cisse.

 

Manager Alan Pardew switched his attention to the Senegal striker after being held up in his bid to sign Sochaux's Modibo Maiga, with the French club insisting on finding a replacement before they allow the Mali international to leave.

 

Cisse, 26, had been a target for Sunderland until they concentrated their efforts on Spurs' Peter Crouch.

 

Newcastle fans are desperate to see a top striker in their No 9 shirt and Cisse seems the ideal candidate with 31 goals in 52 games in Germany.

 

Should the deal hit problems, Pardew has lined up a £5m move for Marvin Ogunjimi.

 

The Genk forward has also interested Fulham, but they were last night closing on a loan deal for Marseille's Andre Pierre Gignac and a £12.5m deal for FC Twente's Bryan Ruiz.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2031976/Newcastle-closing-10m-Papiss-Demba-Cisse.html#ixzz1WYSJs2K0

 

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Wasn't our earlier bid 10 million euros? Therefore, a bid of £10m would be about 12-13 million euros i.e. the mooted asking price?

 

Yeah. :fwap:

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Since bumping threads aint cool what happened with the Nolan Roux thing?

 

Think Brest claimed there had been "no proposal" and it slowly died a death. A few of the local journalists and such later claimed that we felt it was "too soon" for him to make the move here.

 

Not sure if it's even a contingency plan now.

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£10m is just over 11m Euros these days, I think.

 

I was basing my calculations on Santon being 6 million euros, or £5m - doubling both amounts. Either way, we're seemingly very close to hitting the asking price. :thup:

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Since bumping threads aint cool what happened with the Nolan Roux thing?

 

Think Brest claimed there had been "no proposal" and it slowly died a death. A few of the local journalists and such later claimed that we felt it was "too soon" for him to make the move here.

 

Not sure if it's even a contingency plan now.

 

:thup: ta.

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When we sold Carrol didnt we put a 12m bid in for nzogbia with like 10 mins to go :lol:

 

:lol: Still funny.

 

Pardew said later on that we were quoted a price and said we wouldn't pay it, so a bid was never  even put in. It was SSN that claimed we bid.

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Would so much rather Cisse than any of the Ligue 1 lads we're supposedly interested in.  What a signing that would be.

 

Not that I'm even 1% confident it could happen.

 

 

Never seen him but his goal record is ridiculous.

 

Only drawback is possible ACoN involvement again. Senegal currently top their qualifying group.

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Surely it's more just a case of the Mail getting the Euro/Pound mixed up?

 

/pissonchips

 

:sadnod: would fit with the delay with Maiga as Sochaux need a replacement bit which is the crux of the article.

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