There is news in the Mirror today that Yohan Cabaye met with Newcastle manager Alan Pardew yesterday, and told him that he wanted to leave Newcastle to get Champions League football at Paris club PSG.
Yohan Cabaye in his last game for Newcastle at West Ham
Yohan can play in the knockout rounds of the Champions League since Newcastle have not qualified for Europe this season, and so Cabaye is not cup tied.
Things happened quickly yesterday and it was a bad sign for Newcastle fans when PSG Football Director Olivier Letang traveled to Newcastle to negotiate the deal, because he wouldn’t have traveled if it wasn’t fairly certain a deal could be reached – or had already been agreed.
If this is true than it’s the second time in six months that Cabaye has asked to leave the club, after he went on strike in August, when an £11M bid came in from Arsenal for the Frenchman.
Newcastle have again showed they are willing to sell their very best players for top dollar halfway through the season.
And Alan Pardew said today before an agreement was reached to sell the Frenchman that the Newcastle team revolves around Cabaye.
We wonder how Alan Pardew is feeling about all of this today – he cannot be happy.
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163 comments so far
listie
Jan 28, 2014 at 8:42 AM
Comment #161He will be a massive miss but twice now he has asked to leave, so wish him well, I do feel he will have the rest of this season playing at PSG then come the summer they will buy and he’ll be a bench warmer.
Coach
Jan 28, 2014 at 8:43 AM
Comment #162I don’t think any of us are surprised at this, and it’s good to see how many fans understand that for Cabaye, it is a move he has to make.
If the fee really is around £20 million, it’s a poor bit of business for us. Forget how much we paid for him, the important figure is how much it would cost us to replace him and it’s more than we have sold him for.
ballerfan2
Jan 28, 2014 at 8:51 AM
Comment #163Yes I’m disappointed to see a very influential player leave. However I have supported the team through the losses of Eastham, Gazza, Waddle, and a good few more and we have survived. So I don’t feel the need to resort to adolescent comments regarding the health of our owner, manager and outgoing player among other frustration fuelled observations. The fact is that Cabaye even in his earlier days here said that his ambition was to play for his boyhood favourites PSG. Alan Shearer anyone? He passed up lots of tempting opportunities in order to play for us. I believe Cabaye has enjoyed his time here and along with many of our previous players will have many good things to say in reply to questions about NUFC. He was going soon anyway so let’s not get too down. We do need a replacement though as his influence on the team was huge.