Newcastle received a £12M bid for Newcastle playmaker Yohan Cabaye on Sunday from Arsenal, and that was immediately rejected, but the Gunners have probably made contact with the player’s agent to let them know what they are willing to pay him in wages – but whatever has really happened Alan Pardew admitted after the game that Cabaye’s head had been turned.
Yohan Cabaye – probably refused to play last night
And the Newcastle manager has said that it’s always hard to keep players when they want to leave, but hey we shouldn’t sell Cabaye unless we receive £25M for him, and if that offer doesn’t come along then he will stay on Tyneside.
Mike Ashley should take a leaf out of Tottenham supremo Daniel Levy’s book, by insisting on a ridiculous deal before they will sell.
Levy did that with Luka Modric last summer, and finally got £33M out of Real Madrid for him, and he’s now playing hard ball with Gareth Bale this summer, with a ridiculous fee of £105M being mentioned in the press..
But the fee is only ridiculous for the buying club – it’s great for the selling club – as we found out when we sold Andy Carroll..
And lets’ face it these footballers live in an unreal world, and when they sign contracts they think they can leave if it’s a good offer for them – but what happens if it’s not good for their football club?
What happened yesterday was that either Alan Pardew decided Yohan was not in the right frame of mind to play – or Yohan simply refused to play to try to force through a deal, and it could well have been the latter.
If necessary Newcastle should keep Cabaye out of the squad through the end of the transfer window (13 days to go), and not do a deal unless they get what they want for Yohan Cabaye.
And if Yohan sulks then so be because it he can sit out the season until January rolls around – but remember it’s a World Cup year coming up, and he will want to be playing regularly to get into the French side for the World Cup games and also for the tournament next summer.
So it seems that Newcastle have got all the answers if they simply play hard ball for the next 13 days.
If Cabaye doesn’t move hell soon come around and realize he actually has a legal contract to play for Newcastle – that’s why these players sing contracts in the first place.
Newcastle have every right to keep him at Newcastle this summer – unless we get £25M for him – and if he doesn’t like that – then so be it.
We usually think that if a player wants to leave we should just sell him, but in this case the advantages seem to be with Newcastle, if only because of the World Cup next summer, and Yohan will need to be playing somewhere.
And if he doesn’t get his move to either Arsenal (unlikely) or PSG ( a lot more likely) then he needs to stay at Newcastle – whether he likes that or not.
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87 comments so far
toon kk
Aug 20, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Comment #81I’m having a few quid on us going down. There was people on here saying we’d be 7th or 8th this season we wouldn’t get that in the Championship.
Swansea got beat but at least they can play football.
MA doesn’t deserve a premier league club in a years time he won’t have one, at least he can run it on the cheap.
JOKE CLUB.
alex84
Aug 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Comment #82Toon1978
We did actually press high as much as possible in the 1st 30-40 mins, they were always going to have more possession that us, not many teams will got to city and dominate possession.
Once Taylor saw red that was it, game over, it’s hard enough with 11 men against that team, let alone 11v10, we actually passed the ball at the beginning, people will just use any reason to batter Pardew!
We are frustrated that we have not signed players that we need, Pardew and players have come out and said we need these signings, but it isn’t Pardew’s job to buy them, its Ash and JK, so he can only work with he has.
Rotonda heights
Aug 20, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Comment #83alex
we played the same against brighton
sticklebricks
Aug 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Comment #84Cabaye wants to leave and refused to play, otherwise he would have been playing….
Got to feel sorry for Debuchy, must feel rather betrayed..
JK needs to release a statement stating that the player wants to leave but is contracted to play at Newcastle and that the fee to buy his services is £X and if any club wants to pay this for the player they need to put the offer to the club by a specific date. (To allow us to have time to spend the money)
Would this not make it clear to the fans, any interested club, Cabaye and his agents? I think such a clear statement would definitely help us on the pitch as all the doubt and uncertainty will not do us any good.
Anyone else notice the first goal when it last night moments after the dont sell cabaye chant started..?
Hughie_Gallacher
Aug 20, 2013 at 1:20 PM
Comment #85I predict this will drag out over the next week, Cabaye will be sold for an extra couple of million, and Pasdew will say there wasn’t enough time to buy a replacement, although they will try desperately, of course.
nufcalex
Aug 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Comment #86Tuned into the game last night after 7 minutes played and my immediate reaction was here we f**king go again…
We need Cabaye too stay or I fear another relegation fight
isleofmanman
Aug 20, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Comment #87I agree with the £25m marker for the home and overseas market. Pay us or sod off!
Trouble is that the chairman is a barrow boy / pawn broker by nature
I dont like Spurs Levi but I cant fault him when it come to hard bargaining and ‘read my lips’