Two in two days as Gouffran signs for Newcastle

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Gouffran holds up his new shirt
Gouffran holds up his new shirt
Newcastle secured their second signing in as many days last night after it was confirmed that Yoan Gouffran has signed a four-and-a-half year deal at St James’ Park.

The 26-year-old joins from former Europa League group opponents Girondins Bordeaux for an undisclosed fee believe to be somewhere around the £1.2 million mark.

Gouffran only had six months remaining on his deal at Bordeaux hence the reduced price as they sought to recoup at least some money for a player, who can play either as a striker or as a wide forward in a front three and possesses pace and the ability to use either foot, that could walk away from the club for free in the summer.

Gouffran started off his career at Caen where he made 115 appearances scoring 33 goals along the way and helped his side gain promotion to Ligue 1 where he courted interest from Arsenal. Rather than joining Arsenal though, Gouffran, a French U21 international at the time, decided to stay in France and opted to join Bordeaux in 2008 for a fee of €6.5 million. He made 140 appearances for Bordeaux scoring 31 goals before joining United yesterday.

As you can see he’s not really a prolific striker and scores a goal roughly every four games (well 3.9 games actually), but that doesn’t take into account the amount of times he plays out wide in games where it’s only natural he will get less chances to score. If you wish to know an interesting fact about Gouffran he is actually allergic to grass according to his Wikipedia page.

Speaking to the official club website after securing his move to United, Gouffran had this to say following his arrival:

“I am really proud to have joined this fantastic Club. Throughout the last few years I have enjoyed every moment of my time at Bordeaux but all good things must come to an end and it was time for a new challenge.”

“And the challenge of playing for one of the most famous teams in England, with all of its history and its famous support, is very exciting,” he added.

Meanwhile Alan Pardew added to the whole bog-standard new signing spiel by saying:

“Yoan comes to the Club with a great pedigree and, like the other signings we have made this month, is a player who will add considerable strength to our squad.”

“I liked the look of him when we played Bordeaux at St. James’ Park earlier this season; pacy, direct and intelligent and those are qualities I like in a footballer.”

“I am sure he will quickly adapt to the rigours and intensity of the Premier League and play an important role for us for the remainder of the season.”

So there we go. Two in two days. It’s amazing what can be achieved with a bit of willingness. And with Massidio Haidara expected to sign today after ironing out a few details of his deal, and Moussa Sissoko rumoured to be signing a pre-contract agreement at the very least, not forgetting the already signed Mathieu Debchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, dare I say that we might actually end up having a good transfer window when we needed it most?

Fingers crossed eh?

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230 thoughts on “Two in two days as Gouffran signs for Newcastle”

  1. (THIS IS A GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING. THIS POSTER IS LIABLE TO DISAGREE WITH YOUR POINT OF VIEW. ONLY ENGAGE IF YOU AREN’T SENSITIVE AND DON’T TAKE HISSY FITS)

    It won’t bother me one iota if we have 11 French first teamers as long as we reach our expectations. It’s NUFC not the individuals that matter.

    @DIFSB

    I’m sure if Adam Campbell is good enough he will get his chance. He’s clearly not yet as he never really features.

    The same was said about a lot of our youth players but when they have been thrown in the mixer, many of them struggled.

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  2. Shamrock – the Belgium league has to be worth a look as well I’d have thought. Some of their national players are really well suited to the EPL.

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  4. We need a couple of Aussies in the first team. It’s lacking a bit of culture 🙂 🙂

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  5. Sharpy-That’s true mate. Population wise the Belgians have some absolutely awesome players, not sure whether its coaching or just luck but they have a great generation currently..

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  6. Aussie 😆 Maybe a Yank or two for the same reason 😉

    Seriously though, Gouffran and Sissoko for a total (reported) of 3.2M? 😯 That’s good business by the club anyway you slice it. Onwards and upwards!

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  8. AMF – That’s a very simplistic view of looking at scouting. I’m certain there is a lot more to it than that me ‘auld mucka

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  9. A team in free fall, a clueless manager, three in and two out. Lets be positive, it could be worse.

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  10. DIFSB@61 ,Don’t fret mate it could be worse ,we could have a team full of Dutch players and we know how welol they all get along.

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  11. I suspect Pardew will play the next 4 – 5 games with the team he has played all season.

    When fans express anger at the continued poor results he will then blame the new signings for being too late and that they need to jack up and get up too speed.

    That is a lot of business for us but I still cannot see how players are a substitute for tactics. **** tactics even with Messi and Ronaldo in the team would still produce silly results.

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  12. Sham, please explain why watching( scouting) footballers would be anything other than simplistic if you have a good eye for talent. Carr has people all over the place spotting for him and he takes it from there.. its not rocket science, just god judgement and a little luck.

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  13. Still the board are trying to address our issues and I’m happy with Mbiwa and if he comes Sissoko ,not sure on the other two as know nowt of em tbh .Still think we need a CB as looks like we’ll lose Colo and Wilo cannot be first choice for another season and Saylor never fit 🙄 .Need a quality replacement for Ba too and not sure the gruffalo fits the bill really. Would love that Rip Van Winkle rumour to be true, I wouldn’t say no to Graham either tbh ,every little helps and a geordie who can score unlike Shola would be nice.

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  19. B&B – you’re a miserable ******, I’m sure if you had to share a £7m lotto jackpot with 1 other winner you’d twist ‘it’s only £3.5m and I had to spend £1 on the ticket don’t forget!’ 👿 😆

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  21. im not fretting as such. its good they recognise we need to improve. and i know it sounds hypocritical as ive been crying out for signings HOWEVER if we cant get remy or augemang or van wolfie 😆 id rather we played someone like campbell. young hungry local lad who from what ive seen is a decent player.

    hopefully gouffran proves me wrong but from what im hearing hes an average forward. he played up top with antoine modeste (who went to blackburn on loan last season) and he was not a hit there although he did well in france

    hope im proved wrong though.

    we still need in my opinion a striker and also a cb (if colo goes)

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  22. Kim – I’d be chuffed to bag Rip like. Graham or Bent after that, don’t know enough about Thauvin to make a judgement, but he’s only 19 and think he’s more a WF rather than a CF, and its a CF we need IMO

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  23. sharpy is a WF a wing forward? what’s the difference between a wing forward and a winger? 😕

    im getting old.

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  25. DIFSB – I’d class players like Nasri, Silva, or Bale as wing forwards. Not your traditional winger who hugs the line and whips crossed in, but also not ya centre forward like a Carroll or a Rip Van Winkle or Drogba or someone like that. If that makes sense mate 😕

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  27. Pictures of Collo training thursday (nufc site) all look quite normal, doesn’t seem to have stormed off or just come in for shown down talks, he’s there, at least then, just training. 😉

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  28. LS – well that certainly sounds promising mate.

    Ice – where have you heard the medical passed news from mate? – also, where’s your avatar gone?

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  29. icedog says:
    January 24, 2013 at 14:21
    are we getting fit players for a change lol
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    LOL I was just thinking the same thing. can’t remember the last tine we had single-day medicals

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  31. Jimmy Kebe ‏@JKebe
    On my way to Newcastle, having medical then sign a 4 years contract. Thank you all for your support you’ve been outstanding !!!!

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  32. Jimmy Kebe ‏@JKebe

    On my way to Newcastle, having medical then sign a 4 years contract. Thank you all for your support you’ve been outstanding !!!!

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  35. wishful thinking from Mr Kebe….. He’s 29 and not even French.

    Although he’s greedy as **** he’s quick. Still glad its a wind up.

    If Toon players did something like that Id be pissed off!

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  38. Scott Wilson ‏@Scottwilsonecho

    Perhaps if Kebe was as inventive on the field, Reading wouldn’t be in the bottom three…. #NUFC

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  42. Newkie – sorry mate, I missed ya Belgium post.
    Aye, they are nation on the up and there’s a couple I reckon will come good in the next couple of seasons. Nill De Pauw – Winger at Lokeren. Gregory Mertens – CB at Brugge. Jens Naessens – ACM at Zulte Waregem and Benjamin Mokulu – CF at Lokeren. 4 players I’d happily see in the NUFC ‘development’ squad.

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  43. SHARPY I have my spys ime on my tablet so no avatar,laptop in for repair £70 bloody quid the crooks lol

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  44. To people wondering why all these french players keen to come. It’s simple. It’s not love of the Toon it’s 45% tax instead of 75% tax. And much higher wages to go with it!

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  45. (THIS IS A GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING. THIS POSTER IS LIABLE TO DISAGREE WITH YOUR POINT OF VIEW. ONLY ENGAGE IF YOU AREN’T SENSITIVE AND DON’T TAKE HISSY FITS)

    It’s on talksport stating it was a practical joke by Jimmy Kebe. Thank F for that . 😆

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  48. Troy,

    I will send you a message through twitter, something I think you’ll be interested in music wise 😉

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  49. (THIS IS A GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING. THIS POSTER IS LIABLE TO DISAGREE WITH YOUR POINT OF VIEW. ONLY ENGAGE IF YOU AREN’T SENSITIVE AND DON’T TAKE HISSY FITS)

    @Ice

    I never seen it on twitter, I was just travelling to pick the rug rats up and turned on the radio that Jimmy Kebe has just tweeted a practical joke.

    I divvent even know who he is. 😯 Sounds like he’s from Benwell. Jimmy Kebe, the fairholm social club committee chairman. 😛

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  50. TROY you know the fairholm club small world,expect you knew the Greentree and hawthorn bars then,never saw you in your outfit when I was in lol

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  54. Ice – been doing a bit of recruiting of my own mate. A little Boston Terrier pup, more for the wife and boy like, but he’s a little belter to be fair.

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  57. Kebe is from Mali ,don’t they speak french there 😕 Obviously it’s a french speaking joke of some sort ,though I ain’t laughing . 🙄

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  58. M,

    Opening line on that is a belter..

    “You might call it reporting on Newcastle United; I call it standing sentry at an asylum and I’m no longer sure who’s watching who.”

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  59. SHARPY there a canny little dog one more into the family,use the vets at f/moor they are canny,funny like the son just got a British bulldog pup,they are the most stubborn dogs on the planet lol

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  60. M@131 ,Excellent article and very true about the madness around the club ,so much drama . I swear the series Dreamteam with the fictional Harchester utd was based on the Toon 🙄

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  61. Ice – aye we plan to mate, the boy goes to the busy bees nursery next door to it at the mo.
    He’s cost a pretty penny which was my only reservation to be honest, haven’t grown up with pets really, but he’s lush, and out that keeps the wife and boy quite during the transfer window is worth every penny 😆

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  63. @F8Piraux: Moussa Sissoko will sign to Newcastle this winter, according to RMC. Agreement between #NUFC and #TFC president Olivier Sadran.

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  64. SHARPY if I can give youone tip get the life time injection its £99 but
    It saves you paying £30 every year

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  65. @andybrassell: All reports saying that Toulouse will get in region of €2.5m-€3m, while Sissoko will waive signing-on fee from #NUFC to make it happen.

    @andybrassell: Lots of qs on Moussa Sissoko, so to summarise; lively, energetic, box-to-box MF type. Outstanding for France of late. Absolute bargain.

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  66. If it’s true he’s happy to waive his signing on fee to make it happen then he must really want to come to us . 😎 Imagine Ba forgoing his signing on fee ,never happen. 😉

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  67. @GFN_France: #Sissoko Update: Transfer to #NUFC imminent. Fee agreed at €2.5m plus €1m add ons. Watch this space.

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  68. I kinda like to imagine Remy now ranting at his agents cause of all the French internationals we have and our clear ambition 😈 😆

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  73. Kim – the boy has decided on Oscar, nee idea where he’s got that from, don’t allow him to watch Chelsea!!, still there are a lot worse names I expected him to come up with.

    Ice – thanks for that mate, still getting my head round all that carry on. Apparantly he’s already had his first jabs :???:. I’m just enjoying watching the boy trying to make him sit 😆

    3HW – catch up man, ice broke that one well before ya 😉 , your slipping mate, come on you’re better than that :grin:.
    €3m is bloody peanuts again mind isn’t it?!. Has he had his medical yet or is he heading over for it do we know?. I’d be interested to know the length of his contract as well coz they’ve all been long term so far.
    A week in the life of a football club!.
    4-5 days ago we’d just lost out on Remy, Colo was leaving and Pardew was for the chop. Things look a bit different now like don’t they?! 😎

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  74. Sharpy , Oscar is a good name 😎 Maybe he heard it on the television as there is lots of stuff on about the upcoming Oscars 😕 Kids pick up much more than we realise at times like.

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  75. Sharpy – You’re not too concerned by the lack of a goalscorer to replace Ba? You seem to be excited about the possible arrival of another midfielder.

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