Montpellier midfielder Remy Cabella has told the French press that he has no regrets at all about not joining Newcastle in January, although we don’t know if a fee was ever agreed between Newcastle and his French club, and that comes first before the player gets to decide whether he wants to leave or not. All that happened is the Montpellier President and manager amazingly bad mouthed the Newcastle club, and they showed they have no class.
Remy Cabella – glad he didn’t join Newcastle last month
But Newcastle found out last month that it’s very hard to get good players to leave their clubs half way through the season, and clubs don’t want to lose their best players, and often it’s not convenient for the player to leave either.
Unfortunately, that was not true at Newcastle, and we sold our best player Yohan Cabaye last month – and he wanted to leave to join PSG, and the team is now weaker than it was at the start of the transfer window.
This is what Remy Cabella told French radio station RMC:
“I made the right choice to stay in Montpellier. I have goals, I hope to achieve.” “I was glad that they were interested in me but the most important is being here with Montpellier.”
“I was glad that they were interested in me but the most important is being here with Montpellier” “I do not see myself leaving. I am 100% focused with the team.”
In fact all the Newcastle midfield targets last month didn’t arrive on Tyneside, and in not one case did Newcastle even agree a transfer fee with their clubs, with Clement Grenier of Lyon and attacking midfielder Filip Duricic of Benfica being the other two targets, in addition to Cabella.
But in addition to Remy Cabella, Clement Grenier also came out on the second last day of the window, and said he had decided not to leave Lyon in January.
Both Cabella and Grenier were probably fed up at the games Newcastle were playing in trying to get them at rock bottom prices, and we don’t think what happened last month will necessarily help us in the summer, if we still want to get those two Frenchmen to the club.
It’s just a pity that Newcastle don’t seem to learn from their mistakes – we’ve made plenty of them since the summer of 2007, when Mike Ashley bought the club.
What do you think?
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194 comments so far
ToonDarnSarf
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:37 PM
Comment #41Bloody hell Ed…put a spin on it why don’t you?!
Read the headline and you’d think that he didn’t want to join Newcastle at all. Read the quotes from him and it turns out he just wants to finish the season with his team, ensure they stay up and hopefully get in the French team for the WC.
If he joined us, then it’s possible he would take some time to adapt and might not be in good form coming up to the WC.
It’s not easy to get good players in January…
kevymartins
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:38 PM
Comment #42Chelsea 6 Newcastle 0 ….Were set up for a stinking string of games. Especially when pardrew seems to think Anita is Cabaye and as soon as Anita gets the ball anywhere on the pitch he takes 1 touch and tries the superb ball over the top witch only few in the world can execute and Cabaye was one of them.
Blackley and Brownlie
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:41 PM
Comment #43Jail
Troy may act like a true gentleman but it doesn’t mean he’s not one of the most infuriating people you’ll ever meet when he’s drink driving his keyboard.
p
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:49 PM
Comment #44aye Kevy, I am bracing myself for another humiliation
Ibizatoon
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:50 PM
Comment #45Blackley…Seems .co.uk are fairly trigger happy…or maybe it just attracts the wrong sorts 🙂
So then, I get you’re not a fan of Pardew. As far as Ashley is concerned, is it that you think he’s done a good job or that you think the owners role within a club is minimal and it’s all about the manager?
beddersmag
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:52 PM
Comment #46Dont think we need worry about ambitious players wanting to join us. Of course they will. But dont be too dissapointed when they leave. We cant attract top, top players. We bring in the next tier and they hope to prove themselves and win a deal with a top premier side. We have done well to keep the players we have over the past few years imo.
kevymartins
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:52 PM
Comment #47My france top arrived today with Cabaye 6 on it. I’m glad I decided to get him on my france and not nufc 🙂 …Next top on my radar is Tiote, cote d’ivoire. Stocking up for the world cup 😉 …France, Ivory coast, Brazil, Germany will do me since the quality is unreal and there lilke £8 😀
http://www.aliexpress.com/premium/france-jersey.html?ltype=wholesale&d=y&origin=y&SearchText=france+jersey&initiative_id=&isViewCP=y&catId=0
p
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM
Comment #48I was hoping Mac City might soften Chelsea up for us, not looking like that is the case
Waldo P. Barnstormer
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:57 PM
Comment #49Ok I’ve allowed satda’s woeful display sink in after being near suicidal after the final whistle. I’ve mostly been indifferent to Mike Ashley and his Hokey Cokey style of stewardship. There have been more bad than good choices he’s made. I can actually think there is a small amount of spite in his actions for the way we as a fan base reacted over KK. Does just enough to recover and safe guard his investments, but never over the top as what is required to move us forward at any speed. We were relegated which sting him in the pocket we come up in sell Carroll for an obscene amount. We were lucky Leon best stepped up.
The following year brought in cabaye tiote ba marvuex and we finish 5th then we didn’t strengthen for the extra euro games the following season and after a mass panic bought 5 French players and we stayed up by the skin of our teeth. Now this year after one loan signing we were safe in eight touching euro places. Ashley true to form sees no need to invest in safety and sells our best player. Almost as if to say I don’t want the extra games we struggled with last year and I won’t invest enough to push towards a possible top4 as I personally think could have been done but boy we’d of had to splash.
Anyway back to the point in the headline, we are now only a stepping stone club it the truest sence of the term. Cabaye proved it by the agreement to move if the right bid came in. But we do only seem to sell players that want to leave. The dross that we should shift stay till their contracts run out. We will only get players how want a bigger move in a couple of years.
As long as things stay the same I refuse to travel 300 miles round trip to a home game. I will buy man kids shirts if they wish as I’m not gonna push them to another club but as regards me, my purchases have now fully stopped. I now have lost the last sliver of hope for any sort of success under this regime and feel sorry for the generation of youth that Ashley will poison and possibly force to follow other clubs.
The toon army is on deaths door, we need a new king to lead us away from this depressive fog that is ungulfing our once proud club.
ONLINE GUY
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:57 PM
Comment #50Great game ..That’s how to dominate midfield ..a complete performance by Chelsea.
Jail for Ashley
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:01 PM
Comment #51blackley,
I can only judge people as I find them and so far Troy Stavers has only shown impeccable politeness and good etiquette on this particular blog, if only everybody could show such manners and restraint the blog would be a better place.
kevymartins
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:02 PM
Comment #52And for any doubters out there the pic’s don’t have the sponser badge due to the site regulations. But I compared a nufc top to a real one and you really can’t tell the difference they have the Authentic thing on the bottom right and the dri-fit on the bottom left.
Jackel001
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:06 PM
Comment #53@GFN_France: Remy Cabella: ‘The coach thinks that I can be in a better team, but I think Newcastle could be a good springboard for me.’ #MHSC #NUFC
John Tudor
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:14 PM
Comment #54Father O’Malley rose from his bed one morning.
It was a fine spring day in his new parish.
He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the
Beautiful day outside. He then noticed there was . … .. A donkey
lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. He promptly called the local
police station.
The conversation went like this:
“Good morning. This is Sergeant Jones. How might I help you?”
“And the best of the day te yerself.. This is Father O’Malley at St.
Ann’s Catholic Church. There’s a donkey lying dead in me front lawn and
Would ye be so kind as to send a couple o’yer lads to take care of the
matter?”
Sergeant Jones, considering himself to be quite a wit and recognizing
The Irish accent, thought he would have a little fun with the good
father, replied,
“Well now Father, it was always my impression that you people took care of the last rites!”
There was dead silence on the line for a moment .. . . . . . ….
Father O’Malley then replied:
“Aye,’ tis certainly true; but we are also obliged to notify
The next of kin first, which is the reason for me call.”
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:15 PM
Comment #55Gary Neville…. “These days wingers have to be full backs and full backs have to be wingers”
“You talk about having a luxury player out wide…not the way the game is going you don’t”
I have paraphrased slightly, but that is basically what he said tonight. I tried making this exact point on here about Ben Arfa and why he should not play wide. But i suppose people are going to say Gary Neville knows nothing, because it portrays one of our poor players in a bad light.
John Tudor
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:16 PM
Comment #56After a delicious dinner and a few drinks the wife leads husband into the bedroom.
With a very seductive voice the woman asked her husband, “Have you ever seen twenty dollars all crumpled up?”
No,” said her husband.
She gave him a sexy little smile, unbuttoned the top 3 or 4 buttons of her blouse, and slowly reached down into the cleavage created by a soft, silky push-up bra, and pulled out a crumpled twenty dollar bill.
He took the crumpled twenty from her and smiled approvingly.
She then asked him, “Have you ever seen fifty dollars all crumpled up?”
“Uh… no, I haven’t,” he said, with an anxious tone in his voice.
She gave him another sexy little smile, pulled up her skirt, and seductively reached into her tight, sheer panties… and pulled out a crumpled fifty dollar bill.
He took the crumpled fifty and started breathing a little quicker with anticipation.
Now,” she said, “have you ever seen 50 thousand dollars all crumpled up?”
“No way!” he said, while obviously becoming even more aroused and excited, to which she replied,
“Go look in the garage,”
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:17 PM
Comment #57By poor i dont mean as in skills, i mean as in hard done by.
manxpie
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:17 PM
Comment #58gary neville has just said that RW n LW have to be RB n LB
and vise versa as thats how the game is changing and there ain’t any place any more for luxury players
so catchy n jesper i think that says alot?
manxpie
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:19 PM
Comment #59well said markaccus 🙂
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:20 PM
Comment #60Manxpie
Just what i said. Jesper and a few others critisized me for saying that about ben arfa. I am sure they will find a way to twist it around
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:21 PM
Comment #61We are going to be accused of back-slapping now 😀
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:24 PM
Comment #62You know that game where you say who you would invite to a fantasy dinner party….. Jose would be first on my list. He is f#cking brilliant. Bet he is a right laugh
John Tudor
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Comment #63A farmer goes out to his field one morning only to find all of his cows frozen solid. As far as the eye can see are cows, motionless like statues. It had been a bitterly cold night, but he’d never thought anything like this would happen. The realisation of the situation then dawned on him. With his entire livestock gone, how would he make ends meet? How would he feed his wife and kids? How would he pay the mortgage? He sat with his head in his hands, trying to come to terms with his impending poverty.
Just then, an elderly woman walked by, “What’s the matter?” asked the old lady.
The farmer gestured toward the frozen cows and explained his predicament to the woman.
Without hesitation the old woman smiled and began to rub one of the cows noses. After a few seconds the cow began to twitch and was soon back to normal and chewing the cud.
One by one, the old woman defrosted the cows until the whole field was full of healthy animals.
The farmer was delighted and asked the woman what she wanted as a repayment for her deed.
She declined his offer and walked off across the field.
A passer-by who had witnessed the whole thing approached the farmer.
“You know who that was don’t you?” asked the passer-by.
“No” said the farmer “who?”
“That was Thora Hird.”
kevymartins
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:28 PM
Comment #64@Markaccus Didn’t a few players come out a few years ago and say it’s all an act from jose. He is not like that in real life and it’s just to get the attention.
Pritty sure I seen it when I watched his documentary.
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:28 PM
Comment #65John
ba dum tss. 😀
manxpie
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:30 PM
Comment #66yeah we’re happy clapping back slappers!
i had it with jesper too and he kept on saying “babysitting”
which annoyed me and catchy said when i said you have to defend as a team like wat mourinho does and ben arfa wouldn’t get in his team
he said “i don’t know nothing about football”
then produced stats on hazard and ronaldo that showed nothing lol
but if you watched that match tonight how hard does every chelsea player work?
great performance by them and makes the title challenge much more excitin
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:31 PM
Comment #67Kevy
yeah some of the “silly” thinga he says are an act. The media think they are getting one up on him when they ‘expose” it, but really they are dancing to his tune. Its beautiful 😀
He is a very clever man, and if he can act that well, i bet he is genuinely a funny bloke.
shearer 9
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:31 PM
Comment #68Hi guy just got my Newcastle top from sports direct or 16 quid 🙂 Just a quick on I’ve been a toon fan since I was like 5 now nearly 23. From Southampton went to my 1st game last year against saints wen it was 4-2 looking to go bak. Again on my bday against villa but tickets r short. The question is do I go I the platinum stand bit witch aim a bad spot I was ther last time for 52 quid or go in the east stand block c I think it was for 41 quid it’s more center of the pitch and 12 rows up them ones tho I can’t get on nufc web site only on virgogo or wot ever it called lol so what do u guys think easy stand better view or platinum ? Cheers guys
John Tudor
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:33 PM
Comment #69Got my mate a man utd lamp for crimbo looks great in the middle of the table.
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:34 PM
Comment #70Manx
yeah i had the same experience. Jose wont even play a luxury player in the middle, hence Mata situation. I believe you can get away with one in the hole, or as a false no. 9 as your holding player/s cover.
John Tudor
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:38 PM
Comment #71Resetting The Password.
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expired you must register a new one.”
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manxpie
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:39 PM
Comment #72a much shorter joke tudor save ya fingers
a farmer counted his flock of sheep and came to 196
once he rounded them up he had 200!
now thats worth a ba dum tiss!
John Tudor
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:40 PM
Comment #73Be careful driving past old Trafford there giving 3 points to everyone.
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:41 PM
Comment #74Ohhhhhhhhh dear manx
maths joke.
Jail for Ashley
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:42 PM
Comment #75Shearer 9,
I hope you realise that not a penny of that shirt sale went to the club or on an incoming transfer.
Jail for Ashley
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:44 PM
Comment #76JT,
Men with glass houses …..
Blackley and Brownlie
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:45 PM
Comment #77Ibiza – a manager is the key position. Mikey’s got it badly wrong.
mikey has done well to provide a very decent squad. We’ll see if he continues to strengthen astutely. I say astutely, he could have done better with the same resources.
Big Pappa Cissé
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:46 PM
Comment #78I hate the way football is going with this ultra defensive style that a lot of managers use .
I grew up watching the Keegan era and the end to end stuff is what I fell in love with . In 10 years it will get to the stage where every game is either a 0-0 or a close 1-0 rather than a thrilling 4-3 or a good 6-0 drubbing .
All the future stars will be picked because of how hard they work and their “engine” rather than what they can do with a football .
Is it just me or is anyone else concerned ? .
Markaccus
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:46 PM
Comment #79Jail
…… should not walk around with no pants on
toonarmydownsouth
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:47 PM
Comment #80Oh great it’s a bloody Markaccus/manxpie love in, running round whipping each other with wet towels 😉
Anyway how dare you two commit the blogs cardinal sin and question Sir H. Benson Arthur I’ll see you hang for this