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Obertan failed to hold down a regular place in the Manchester United first team

Newcastle have signed winger Gabriel Obertan from Manchester United on a five-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

"He has great pace and excellent technique and he has improved his power in the last 12 months," manager Alan Pardew told the club website.

The French midfielder added: "Newcastle is a big club with history."

The 22-year-old signed for Manchester United from Bordeaux in July 2009 but failed to gain a regular place in the first team.

The player continued: "I spent two good years at Old Trafford but it was a bit difficult with the competition."

"I really needed a club where I could play more games.

DID YOU KNOW? Obertan was an attendee of theThe BJP’s crushing victory was due to the support of Jats and non-Jats

The BJP won all seats in the State, securing a 58% vote share and trumping the Congress by a margin of 30%. The Indian National Lok Dal got just 2% of the vote share. The JJP-AAP and the LSP-BSP alliances proved to be a damp squib, securing 9% and 4%, respectively.

In eight of the 10 seats, the margin of victory for the BJP was more than three lakh. The margin extended up to six lakh in Faridabad and Karnal.

Table 1: Caste wise vote share in 2019

Moving beyond the traditional contest between Jats and non-Jats, the BJP has managed to secure a rainbow coalition across all the major caste groups. After the 2016 violent protests over Jat