After failing to reach an agreement with Fenerbahçe, the English side decided to make an advance for Doumbia.
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Before returning to Roma from his loan spell with CSKA Moscow, the player made 19 appearances in all competitions scoring nine goals and registering five assists.
The striker didn’t settle in Italy and has spent the last few months back on loan at CSKA Moscow, where he scored 11 goals in 17 starts, including six goals in the Champions League. Marseille have an interest in Eder at Swansea.
The 28-year-old has been a rumoured target for Arsenal this month but the Ivorian forward is expected to arrive in the North East to undergo a medical before signing a deal until the end of the campaign.
The Magpies are prepared to break the bank to bring in West Brom star Saido Berahino with a fee of £20million understood to be on the table.
The move makes a great deal of sense for the Magpies as their poor goalscoring form has them sitting in the relegation zone and in real danger of the drop.
Newcastle tried to sign Gomis from Lyon two years ago, only for a potential deal to collapse because of the striker’s wage demands.
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However, their attempts to sign Atletico Madrid’s Guilherme Siqueira look doomed to failure, with the defender set to join Valencia instead.
