Steve McClaren is understood to be meeting this week with the board to narrow down a list of around eight striker targets that includes Saido Berahino, Charlie Austin and Bas Dost.
Steve McClaren has been kept abreast of developments and Newcastle are hopeful of bringing Austin – who is keen to speak to the club – to Tyneside.
West Ham and several Qatari sides have enquired about Cisse recently, while the player himself said that there had been interest from Swansea City.