Newcastle United's on-loan French winger Hatem Ben Arfa is set to miss most of this season after suffering a broken left leg in his side's 2-1 loss at Manchester City on Sunday.

Ben Arfa was caught early on by City's Nigel de Jong and a statement issued several hours after the final whistle by Newcastle said the 23-year-old, on loan from Marseille, had broken the tibia and fibula bones and was now set for an operation.