TRon Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Cabaye has class coming out of every pore, on the pitch and off it. How the hell did we land him? By selling Nolan for the same amount of money! Coup! I wonder how many of the Nolan fan boys would show up in this thread and admit they were wrong? More than likely they'll just move to other threads where they see the opportunity to bash the current owners. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 It's not like he was Nolan's replacement anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Right on cue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Cabaye has class coming out of every pore, on the pitch and off it. How the hell did we land him? By selling Nolan for the same amount of money! Coup! I wonder how many of the Nolan fan boys would show up in this thread and admit they were wrong? More than likely they'll just move to other threads where they see the opportunity to bash the current owners. I still would have kept Nolan on in the "official captain" capacity tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Right on cue Well he wasn't. For a start, he arrived before Nolan left Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Matuidi was supposed to be Nolan's replacement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Matuidi was supposed to be Nolan's replacement. Yeah ok. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Nolan went because he's apparently very greedy and wanted bigger wages and a bumper contract. By saying that Cabaye was his replacement is admitting that isn't the case and we were actually actively trying to get rid. Which is what the "Ashley bashers" are arguing in the first place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Right on cue Well he wasn't. For a start, he arrived before Nolan left He's playing where Nolan did last season. Quite a few people expressed concer about a "foreigner" with no prem experience replacing Nolan in the team. However, I appreciated the effort to upgrade on Nolan, whose game I wasn't a fan of. Yeah it was a risk, but a very worthy one. Cabaye has not only made us tougher through the middle, but has also added a creative element. Those two qualities ultimately make us better in midfield overall. Not surprised we are currently grinding out results despite not quite clicking offensively yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Hope no pesky Albanians or Romanians injure him next week Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Tiote doesn't fast on matchdays apparently. Aye, he was drinking on the touchline yesterday. There must be special dispensation by allah & they must have loads of scran on a night. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Right on cue Well he wasn't. For a start, he arrived before Nolan left He's playing where Nolan did last season. Quite a few people expressed concer about a "foreigner" with no prem experience replacing Nolan in the team. However, I appreciated the effort to upgrade on Nolan, whose game I wasn't a fan of. Yeah it was a risk, but a very worthy one. Cabaye has not only made us tougher through the middle, but has also added a creative element. Those two qualities ultimately make us better in midfield overall. Not surprised we are currently grinding out results despite not quite clicking offensively yet. Aren't you supposedly an African? Why the hell are you using logic on a football forum when you should be more concerned about avoiding starvation? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Right on cue Well he wasn't. For a start, he arrived before Nolan left He's playing where Nolan did last season. Quite a few people expressed concer about a "foreigner" with no prem experience replacing Nolan in the team. However, I appreciated the effort to upgrade on Nolan, whose game I wasn't a fan of. Yeah it was a risk, but a very worthy one. Cabaye has not only made us tougher through the middle, but has also added a creative element. Those two qualities ultimately make us better in midfield overall. Not surprised we are currently grinding out results despite not quite clicking offensively yet. Aren't you supposedly an African? Why the hell are you using logic on a football forum when you should be more concerned about avoiding starvation? Um, thanks?! I think. By the way there are many sides to me ... just describing me as an African, does not do enough justice to the wonderful human being that I am. I thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Stop trying to be Baba, you'll never be Baba. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Stop trying to be Baba, you'll never be Baba. Highlander; there can be only one (African) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Stop trying to be Baba, you'll never be Baba. Look ... being Baba as you describe it is simply me gving you a bit of my Naija swagger. I only show it once in a while. Chief commander Baba gives it to you guys full force. I like that about him. I did notice that it has been sweeting you guys well, well. Baba is his own man, as am I. Please don't insult either one of us. Like I said my Naija side is only a small part of who I am. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Ah right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Cabaye has class coming out of every pore, on the pitch and off it. How the hell did we land him? By selling Nolan for the same amount of money! Coup! I wonder how many of the Nolan fan boys would show up in this thread and admit they were wrong? More than likely they'll just move to other threads where they see the opportunity to bash the current owners. How does that work? I'm tagged as Nolan's biggest supporter and and Ashley apologist. The mind boggles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Right on cue Well he wasn't. For a start, he arrived before Nolan left He's playing where Nolan did last season. Quite a few people expressed concer about a "foreigner" with no prem experience replacing Nolan in the team. Where was this? Can only think of Dave, Mick or Wullie playing Devil's Advocate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndonesianToon Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Is he definitely fasting for Ramadan? Cos there is a pic of him drinking from the match pics on .co.uk Anyway - "During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours." Why do some of it? Might as well do it all then. ↲↲Some moslem don't fast in certain days of ramadhan if they have intensive physical activities. It can be replaced by giving 60 poor people who can't afford food. Some others said it only applied to people who have illness or in no condition to fast. It depends on which he believes though. Giving meal to 60 people is easy for profesional footballer isn't it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Is he definitely fasting for Ramadan? Cos there is a pic of him drinking from the match pics on .co.uk Anyway - "During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours." Why do some of it? Might as well do it all then. ↲↲Some moslem don't fast in certain days of ramadhan if they have intensive physical activities. It can be replaced by giving 60 poor people who can't afford food. Some others said it only applied to people who have illness or in no condition to fast. It depends on which he believes though. Giving meal to 60 people is easy for profesional footballer isn't it. how did i know there'd be a workaround Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BEN BEN BEN ARFA Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 http://www.lefigaro.fr/equipe-de-france-de-football/2011/08/30/02016-20110830ARTSPO00385-pret-a-partir-au-combat.php Interview Y. Cabaye very happy to have signed Newcastle United and also look forward Hatem Ben Arfa also returned from injury to evolve with it. "as we all" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Zoggy grow big in that pic... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Author of a remarkable debut as well for France with his new club Newcastle, Yohan Cabaye no lack of confidence this season. And even if the former Lille does not claim anything, it does more than stamping in the starting blocks. Yohan, how is your fitness for Newcastle? All right, really. I am delighted with my debut, and more generally of my choice. The coach made sure that it works perfectly for me. I am very pleased. As the days pass, the more I am confirmed in my choice. What attracts you there? This is the English league, just (smile). There is a special atmosphere, both on and off the field. I also like their mentality, how they see football, how they live. Every day in training, I want to do to prove to them that I level, I am ready to do great things to thank them for their confidence in me. How to play in the Premier League right for you? Yes, totally. This was one of my criteria when I decided to go there. I asked the coach how this would happen if he were playing in a typically British or not. He told me that with me it would change and he wanted the ball often goes by me and the ground. That's what he tries to explain to my partner and this is taking place slowly. I look forward also qu'Hatem (Editor's note: Ben Arfa) return from injury to evolve with it. It's been almost two months you're there. Already feel a change in your game? Yes. To be good, I had to change. At the level of intensity is enormous. You have to be focused from start to finish. Just last week I played in the Carling Cup against a D3 and had to go through the extension to qualify. And during the game, the intensity was there from beginning to end, there was no time-out. And three days later he had put this in the league. They do not care if we played in the week. For them, always be on top all the time. It makes me grow. In terms of physical impact, is it really harder in League 1? Yes. The derby at Sunderland was a real war for example. How do you feel this difference in status that you have a club where you are a leader in the field, and select where you have everything to prove? I saw him very naturally. I take everything one wants to give me. I have nothing to claim. I try to be up when I'm on the ground to show that next game, I can maybe have a little more. And so on. I try to make a more important place gradually. Between your first start in Blue in Ukraine and your entry against Chile, feel a rising power on a personal level? Yes. At first I was probably a little shy. But I tell myself that if I'm here is that the coach has confidence in me and I have no right not to give him. The coach regularly calls me and it honors me. I am ready to fight to recover any minute of playing time and even though right now, so good for me, I know I should not rest on my laurels. The physical dimension that you have found in England can it help you in the France team? Yes. It is true that in the three post-season games for France, I found the same style of physical density, intensity of the effort to repeat that since I started in Newcastle. It's good to learn in English and arrive in a rhythm selection. What kind of game you expect in Albania? Personally, I do not know this team. I know their results, I know they have strengths, that the atmosphere will not be easy to manage. This will be a tough match, which will require that we printed our style of play from the start to show them that we came to win and nothing else. And if they want to impose the physical challenge, it will respond and do not escape. And so, you are ready for it ... Yes, more than ever (smile). I'm ready to go into battle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Seems like he genuinely loves it here. What a man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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