Yoan Gouffran set to complete Newcastle move

Yoan Gouffran is expected to jet into Newcastle in the late hours of  Tuesday to conclude a deal that would see him become the fourth French player to sign for the Magpies in the January transfer window after Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa completed their moves from Ligue 1;  Massadio Haidara is also due to confirm his move from Nancy.

As reported earlier, Alan Pardew had been looking to the Gaelic nation to reinforce his paper thin squad and has met with success on three of their reported targets on the same day. Gouffron will have the unenviable task of filling the boots of Demba Ba, Newcastle’s highest goal scorer for the last season and a half.

The French striker tweeted about his imminent departure from the French club Bordeaux where he was in his last months of his contract.

Demain je serai un nouveau joueur de Newcastle et je suis fier merci a tous…bises

— yoan gouffran (@YGouffran) January 22, 2013

The tweet translated in English read: “Tomorrow I’ll be a Newcastle player and I’m proud. Thanks everyone. Kisses”

The deal is thought to have gone through after Bordeaux accepted a sum of around €1.5million for the frontman who Newcastle manager Alan Pardew hope will bolster the frontline.