{"id":2682,"date":"2014-06-11T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:12:38","slug":"newcastle-united-to-sign-french-striker-bafetimbi-gomis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/newcastle-united-to-sign-french-striker-bafetimbi-gomis\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United to sign French striker Bafetimbi Gomis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle United are ready to clinch the signing of French striker Bafetimbi Gomis with a \u00a34million-a-year contract.<\/p>\n

The big target man, who was rumoured to be interesting Swansea City, has been in Toon\u2019s sights for years and they are closing in on a swoop ahead of newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers.<\/p>\n

Gomis has been offered stunning terms at the end of his stay with Lyon. And he is swaying towards moving to Tyneside.<\/p>\n

Owner Mike Ashley is keen as Gomis is a free agent after previous big-money bids for him failed last summer.<\/p>\n

QPR chief Harry Redknapp thought he had signed the French star with a \u00a370,000-a-week tempter, but Newcastle are going higher.<\/p>\n

NOTTINGHAM Forest are in talks to sign Hull City striker Matty Fryatt on a free transfer.<\/p>\n

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Newcastle United are ready to clinch the signing of French striker Bafetimbi Gomis with a \u00a34million-a-year contract. The big target man, who was rumoured to be interesting Swansea City, has been in Toon\u2019s sights for years and they are closing in on a swoop ahead of newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers. Gomis has been offered stunning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[918,1267,371,926,917,925,928,922,929,924,708,916,30,927,707,921,920,114,120,80,188,919,923],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-bafetimbi-gomis","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-french","tag-french-striker-bafetimbi-gomis","tag-harry-redknapp","tag-hull-city","tag-lyon","tag-matty-fryatt","tag-mike-ashley","tag-newcastle","tag-newcastle-united","tag-news","tag-nottingham","tag-qpr","tag-queens-park","tag-queens-park-rangers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-swansea-city","tag-tyneside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}