Arsenal bid £11M for Yohan Cabaye in the summer and that was rejected by Newcastle, and news today that PSG have finally bid for Cabaye – with an initial offer of £14M – and that has also been rejected.
Yohan Cabaye – PSG £14M bid rejected
It could be that PSG have made Cabaye their number one target, but if Newcastle have any sense they will only let Yohan Cabaye go in January, if the Tyneside club get a massive (make that ridiculous) bid for him – and much more than a paltry £14M.
So with just over five days to go in this transfer window, we’ll see what the next shoe to fall is – and we wouldn’t be surprised if the French club come back in with an increased offer, but hopefully that will be rejected too.
And then there’s Manchester United, who are now said to be interested in taking Cabaye to Old Trafford, and we would expect if the Red Devils do come in and bid, it will be a bigger one than £14M – maybe a much bigger one.
Cabaye could help the Red Devils make the Champions League, with those hopes being very slim at the moment, as they are only one point above Newcastle in the league, they may just be desperate enough to make a huge bid.
If Marouane Fellaini is worth £27.5M to United – then what is Cabaye worth to them – given their current predicament?
But top clubs are now finally bidding for Yohan Cabaye in this final week of the January transfer window.
If Newcastle let Cabaye go and we are unable to bring in a suitable replacement that would not be good, and money would again trump Newcastle becoming a good side, or even that we keep one of our very best players so we can do well in the final 22 games of the season.
We hope the club have learned from selling Andy Carroll to Liverpool three years ago, and at the time we were short of a striker for the rest of that season.
We are hoping Mike Ashley will stand firm and hold out for a huge fee for Cabaye, who is one of Newcastle’s most important players this season, and also one of France’s best players, and if that kind of bid doesn’t come in – we should keep him.
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100 comments so far
1949BH PROUDTOBEAGEORDIE
Jan 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM
Comment #81ts at 67 cant understand why we have not gone in for gomis even if agent fees are 1 million .scored again today 10 in last 12. although lyon play good football to watch, he would probably enjoy the break as they are still in both cups euro and challenging for a euro place.
9
Jan 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM
Comment #82C’mon Lesh, don’t be shy:
Let’s keep the figures simple to allow the maths to show itself clearly:
Say a club (perhaps Newtown United FC) sign a footballer (say, Johnny Foreigner) from a French football club for a transfer fee of £1m, and sign a 5-year contract guaranteing to pay Mr Foreigner £1m a year for the next 5 years. if you, personally, owned the aforesaid NUFC, would you consider you had legally committed to £1m, or to £6m?
Toon Tang
Jan 26, 2014 at 10:59 PM
Comment #83‘i can pick up the phone to anyone and now im putting it down to you’
thats one more from joes vault whilst negotiating over the phone
welshgeordie9
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:01 PM
Comment #84I take that as a maybe then
wolfshead@toon
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:03 PM
Comment #859
all ashley does is count here is doing it
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Tsunki
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:04 PM
Comment #86Looking at it from Cabayes viewpoint, a transfer now would make the least sense of all.
Stay until the summer, by then he should have played well for Newcastle, helping propel us into Europa places or who knows, get selected for the French side, have a decent world cup…what price tag AND wages AND merchandising then? sure, if he moved to Man U or PSG or Arsenal or Leigh RMI now he would get a half decent payday, but it would be a year before his next contract negotiation so waiting 6 months until his stock rockets up would be his best option.
santonthenewmaldini
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:06 PM
Comment #87Just got to worry about squad morale if Cabaye goes he seems a leader for the players especially the French ones can see the Mackems coming here on Saturday brimming with confidence and us being on a downer from Cabs leaving
I would sell him for 25 and Cisse for say 6 million if it was going to be invested we could get a great set of players :
De Jong brothers Siem and Luuk for about 15 million
Cabella 14 million
Gomis 2 million
That would make us a hell of a lot stronger
Also just release Shola haha
John Tudor
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:07 PM
Comment #88unless he is sick of the lack of ambition shown by ashleys and thinks f### this for a game of soldiers im off
Belfast
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:08 PM
Comment #89Disagree Skunki
wolfshead@toon
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:09 PM
Comment #90santon
release shola into the wild? 🙂
Our Toon
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:12 PM
Comment #91I think it’s safe to say we won’t sign anyone until Cabaye goes, it was the same in the summer and looks to be the same now!! Spurs got bale to sign a new deal and then flogged him for £85m because that’s how much he was worth to them, We unfortunately need Cabaye more than he needs us, someone said moving to PSG would be a backward step for Cabaye, how would moving to a team competing for leagues titles and playing in CL be a backward step?
stuart no9
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:12 PM
Comment #92welsh @78=====maybe nothing too severe, but how about getting 11 stretchered off,? surely ash couldn’t ignore that !
santonthenewmaldini
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:12 PM
Comment #93@Wolfshead
I think he might have to take a job in Sports Direct once he leaves the Toon
manxpie
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:16 PM
Comment #94ourtoon its not a backwards step only in terms of challenging for the champions league it is however a backwards step in terms of league and competition in that league
its kind of like man city being in the championship really
now if he moved to say chelsea or man city that truly is a forward step
Tsunki
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:18 PM
Comment #95@82
hmm… well the transfer outlay of a million quid would be a deduction from the current operating years finances, whereas the following 5 years would be a series of separate commitments for each financial term counted against the revenues for those periods. It could be likened to a down payment followed by a series of instalments, and in any commitment of that type there is always the flexibility to dispose of the asset at a price that will offset that commitment, admittedly at a loss or break even, but as likely a profit. Its no more an onerous commitment than buying a house, there is every likelihood that equity exists to compensate for the risk, and you always have to ay for upkeep of any object you ‘own’.
So in summary, you would hve indeed thrown £1m initially at the investment of ttransferring a player into your club, but wages aren’t an investment, they are a running cost justified against the revenue that the asset (player) perceivably generates. Thats a difficult thing to quantify. Not so simple at all, really.
9
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:18 PM
Comment #96John Tudor @88
“lack of ambition” shown by Ashley.
Love it, love it, John. Could you just confirm, to make matters clear, how many MILLIONS OF £s you have, personally invested in NUFC, and how many more MILLIONS OF £s you have available to sign, let’s say, Rooney/Messi (get my drift?)
If you think Mr Ashley has a “lack of ambition”, could you further clarify your thoughts on why he has invested a (rather a lot) of millions of his own money into NUFC, if not to make more money , i.e ambition. You think he wants to throw this money away, perhaps?
You think life was better under, let’s say, a fat man who’s initials are FS, perhaps? You could take more water with it, mate.
Belfast
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:19 PM
Comment #97I’m predicting the Cabaye saga to roll on until the last day.
Couldn’t replace him blah blah blah
We’ll be active in the summer etc etc.
9
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:23 PM
Comment #98Good man, Tsunki @95.
Doesn’t amount to an argument at all, just a way of spreading the cost around, at which you are quite correct. Pardon me for being the simpleton I am, but have I just committed £1m or £6m? Just asking.
Tsunki
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:33 PM
Comment #999 – The answer is in reality £1m. The rest of the cash you may or may not actually spend. The player could go in a year or two and not only will you have only spent £1m or £2m in wages, but when he is transferred out, you will have recouped that, your original investment of £1m and further unknown £m’s in appreciated value. As we will probably be looking at soon with Mr Cabaye.
In the meantime, the wages you have paid should be offset by incrased revenue from performance, winning matches, higher league position payments, increased TV exposure, more popularity in attendance…
I’m not trying to be cheeky, I just think that the transfer fee (and especially agents fees) are the only ‘invested’ commitment. Unless you get a real crock and you hang on to him for far too long……….. 🙂
lesh
Jan 27, 2014 at 1:00 AM
Comment #100Now now 9 @72 etc, if we sell a player, that player’s wages would have been covered in the annual operating budget and the would have eased the wages part of the budget.
If we replace the guy we’ve sold and assuming the new player’s to be paid the same wages, then there’s no additional charge to the budget for the period covered by the leaver’s contract.
Therefore a direct replacement’s wages are offset by the saving on the leaving players wages. Therefore, in a one for one situation, then the impact on the wages budget is tge difference between the two players’ wages.
Ergo, it’s nit a given that a new player’s wage should be seen as part if the fee paid.
Now an additional player’s a different matter and yes his wages should be seen as part of the fee.