Didn't Cabaye's move to Arsenal break down because he found out that they only wanted him as a backup?
Yohan Cabaye
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We'll get a top class midfielder in summer and everyone in thread won't give a second thought about Cabaye. Come summer, he'll be irrelevant.
Well, he caught himself as he said it and quickly moved on to some other way to say he's important. But yeah he was about 95% through with saying Cabaye is a wheel in a cog.
Daily Mail are saying that PSG officials are currently in Newcastle tying up a deal for Cabaye. Looks like it's only a matter of time.
Not sure about that - even with a top midfielder in the summer, when we are playing on multiple fronts and/or that CM is out and we end up with Cleverley or someone putting in mediocre performances in, we'll wish we had a deeper bench of quality when it comes to CM.
Top CM, Fellaini, Carrick, Fletcher and Cabaye next season doesn't sound unreasonable. Especially if you factor in Carrick older and Fletcher's long term status is in doubt.
Unfortunately for Cleverley, he's not really taken the chances he's got and will I think be moved on just like Gibson before him. he'll end up at a good club and probably do quite well for them
No, Newcastle wanted silly money for him.
The fact of the matter is Cabaye is worth more to Newcastle than he is to a buying club. The most surprising thing was that he didn't move to a better club in 2011 because he was one of Lille's better players at a time when they were doing well.
I don't think you can deny him as a decent player, but no one is going to pay the rumoured £23m asking price unless it's a last ditch desperate move where a club knows it's him or no one. I don't think we will and I hope we don't overpay for yet another simply decent player. Arsenal backed off because it didn't make sense financially, I imagine PSG will make one more offer and leave it..possibly at £20m.
I don't think you can deny him as a decent player, but no one is going to pay the rumoured £23m asking price unless it's a last ditch desperate move where a club knows it's him or no one. I don't think we will and I hope we don't overpay for yet another simply decent player. Arsenal backed off because it didn't make sense financially, I imagine PSG will make one more offer and leave it..possibly at £20m.
Apparently this is how they got him to forget about his transfer request and stay, though.
If Kinear is to be believed (and that's a pretty big if, tbf) he secretly let Cabaye listen in on speaker phone when talking to Arsenal, so that he could hear them saying that £20m was too much to pay for a bench-warmer.
Cabaye calls liar...
Yohan Cabaye has laid the failure to secure a summer switch to Arsenal firmly at the door of Joe Kinnear. The France midfielder refused to play for Newcastle in a bid to force through a move to north London after Arsene Wenger submitted a failed £10million offer. Cabaye has since returned to the Newcastle side, featuring in their last five Barclays Premier League games. But the 27-year-old has admitted his failure to leave St James' Park has been difficult to swallow, claiming only Kinnear could reveal the truth behind their summer squabble. 'The only person who can explain what happened is Joe Kinnear,' said Cabaye. 'If he is honest, he will tell it. Otherwise it will not get out of my mouth.
'Was my failed transfer to Arsenal difficult to swallow? At first, yes. But you have to quickly get focused again, because if you go on thinking about it you have a grudge against a lot of people and that is useless. 'I quickly forget about it and go back to work.'
Yohan Cabaye has laid the failure to secure a summer switch to Arsenal firmly at the door of Joe Kinnear. The France midfielder refused to play for Newcastle in a bid to force through a move to north London after Arsene Wenger submitted a failed £10million offer. Cabaye has since returned to the Newcastle side, featuring in their last five Barclays Premier League games. But the 27-year-old has admitted his failure to leave St James' Park has been difficult to swallow, claiming only Kinnear could reveal the truth behind their summer squabble. 'The only person who can explain what happened is Joe Kinnear,' said Cabaye. 'If he is honest, he will tell it. Otherwise it will not get out of my mouth.
'Was my failed transfer to Arsenal difficult to swallow? At first, yes. But you have to quickly get focused again, because if you go on thinking about it you have a grudge against a lot of people and that is useless. 'I quickly forget about it and go back to work.'
Find it bizarre why PSG are trying to lowball them. What, all of a sudden they actually care what they spend and are trying to reign it in?
Deal agreed with PSG
Undisclosed fee but significantly higher than 14m bid
Let's do a Lucas on their ass and make a late swoop!
I predict £21.5 million.
Looks like PSG have got their man
Would have been worth it at the right price, but I guess PSG would just drive that up regardless.
We missed our chance in Jan for this one. Newcastle are significantly weakened without him, let's hope that bodes well for our trip to St.James
It was only a matter of time, really.
#pumps fist lleyton hewitt style#
#roars his delight djokovic hulk shirtrip style#
So no Pogba to PSG now, no 70 million bid
It'll be closer to what Newcastle want. They are under no real pressure to sell as he was tied down for 2 and a half more years, they are doing fairly well in the league and obviously there is obviously some sort of agreement where as long as a buyer is willing to meet their valuation, the player was free to go. Arsenal were well off and gave up before wasting everyone's time, and I'm certain PSG were testing the waters with the original offer and probably have a new sponsor to cover the fee for Cabaye.
Oh, FFS. Is it too late for a late bid?
Cabaye is the heart of my Fantasy team's midfield, I'm screwed without him.
Cabaye is the heart of my Fantasy team's midfield, I'm screwed without him.
We should have driven those cnuts up, make them pay.
In extasy about this... just like for many who regarded missing out on Baines was the best that's happened to us after Mata, I vehemently believed this is not the man for us and what a relief it is to see him walking away to PSG!
There is a local b and b in Doha that just paid 40 million pounds to be PSG's chief hospitality partner
Great news
Cabaye is a very good player no doubt
But we're needing better players in midfield than Cabaye
Cabaye is a very good player no doubt
But we're needing better players in midfield than Cabaye
Very good player but I've no real issues with us not going in for him. Moyes clearly has targets and he's stayed calm and patient and isn't panic buying. I'd rather wait until the summer if it means us standing a much bigger chance of landing one of our big midfield targets than settle for a tier below the top elite.
House Cabaye, IIRC....
Time to unravel your knickers.
I didn't particularly want him either but it's hard to side with the guy who preferred Huddlestone, Parker and Barry over the summer.
Sums it up perfectly.
We lose one of the PL's most gorgeous players. Swoon.
Is he going to be first choice for PSG or are they spending money for the sake of it?
I wonder how Newcastle will cope without him, it's a terrible loss for them. They'll have to get someone in during the next few days or they'll really suffer. I would've liked him at United for the right price, but there's no way we wouldn't have overpaid.
That battle for 7th place is looking all the more in our favor.
Meh, no great loss for us. Would have been a nice upgrade on someone like Cleverley but wasn't good enough to be the long term first team signing we're looking for. I doubt we were ever that interested in the first place.
It'd be interesting to see if posters like @Ekeke were right when they said he'd go for a few million more than the initial 14m bid. When you consider our presence would probably have driven his price up further it seems like we'd have had to pay quite a lot for a player who we'd hope ends up as squad player in the medium-long term. Unless Cabaye could have forced Newcastle to accept a relatively low bid from PSG? I doubt it though.
It'd be interesting to see if posters like @Ekeke were right when they said he'd go for a few million more than the initial 14m bid. When you consider our presence would probably have driven his price up further it seems like we'd have had to pay quite a lot for a player who we'd hope ends up as squad player in the medium-long term. Unless Cabaye could have forced Newcastle to accept a relatively low bid from PSG? I doubt it though.
I think they generally play 4-3-3 with Motta, Matuidi and Verratti in a midfield three
Beyond that they don't have much cover. So Cabaye could probably play with any combination of two of those three midfielders. So he provides cover and probably challenges for a starting role
I would say he'd start. They play 3 in the middle and he would replace either Motta or Verratti (who I feel has stalled a bit this season).
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