After two barren years in front of goal in a Newcastle shirt, United were hoping to cash in on the Senegalese striker this summer, but he suffered a serious injury.
He is set to return to training next month after recovering from the fractured kneecap he suffered late last season.
Alan Pardew: “I do remember not so long ago us all talking very highly about Papiss, and whether we could keep him.
“The chances he was given last year didn’t’ really help his cause, and there was a lot of games where he trawled through for us because we never created enough chances for him.
“I think, with Papiss, that there’s a possibility that he could score a lot of goals in this team, so I wouldn’t write him off by any stretch of the imagination.
“He’s about two weeks away from training, so he’s not far away, so that’s something that seems to have been forgotten.
“Having said that, if we’re going to bring in a player, they have to be better and above (Emmanuel) Riviere and Papiss, otherwise there is no point.
“When you look at the transfers – Jordan Rhodes, (Ross) McCormack to Fulham and Shane Long – and you look at their prices, I don’t think we would have done those three transfers.
"His (Cisse) problems were down to a lack of service.
“He had like two or three chances a game.
“He fluffed his lines a little bit, but he probably needs more than that – top strikers do need more than that – and I’d never put off the fact the fact that he can come again – and come again here.”