Newcastle United striker Papiss Cisse has split from his beauty queen girlfriend Rachelle Graham, and is looking to concentrate on football after a turbulent few months.

According to the Mirror, the pair had worked tirelessly to raise money for an ambulance in Cisse's homeland Senegal earlier this year. 

A friend revealed that the ex-Miss Newcastle, Rachelle, was heartbroken and desperately trying to get back with Papiss, and that she did not want the relationship to end.

Cisse, who earns 40,000 pounds a week, had declined to wear this season's Toon shirt which bears the name of sponsor payday loan firm Wonga, before backing down after talking with an imam, the report said.