It’s official; Newcastle United have a new number nine and his name is Papiss Cisse. Newcastle are thought to have shelled out £10 million for the Senegal striker and have tied the 26-year-old down to a five-and-a-half year contract.
Cisse has taken the iconic Newcastle number nine shirt that was vacated by Andy Carroll 12 months ago and hopefully he can go on to have a great career at St James’ Park. Unfortunately we’ll have to wait a little while to see him in the Premier League as he’s off to try and help Senegal win the African Cup of Nations alongside Demba Ba.
Papiss Cisse has already targeted getting his name on the scoresheet as often as possible, saying: “I am a goalscorer, and that is the thing which gives me the most pleasure. But it is also important that I help my teammates and bring something to the team. Primarily though, my major strength is my goalscoring.”
Personally I can’t wait to see Demba Ba and Papiss Cisse in action together in black and white shirts, but I’m sure like me you’ll be watching the African Cup of Nations that little bit more closely now to see what sort of a player we have got.
Click on the image below to see who else is rumoured to be joining Cisse at Newcastle this month
Over the moon with this signing as long as we keep the rest of our stars and maybes sign CB cover we are sending a major statement of intent HWTL!!! Demba Ba, Cabaye, Santon, Sylvain Marveux, Papiss Cisse, Hatem Ben Arfa and money to spare in exchange for Carroll 😀 .
NEW SONG… to the tune of animals went in 2 by 2
Pappis turned the mackems down – cisse, cisse
Pappis turned the mackems down – cisse, cisse
We’ve signed the lad from Senegal
He gets the ball and scores a goal
PAPPIS CISSE NEWCASTLE’S NUMBER 9
get our Demba’s out for the lads
lol