Ketsbaia Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Apparantly he won Strictly last night too. What a talent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/12/18/yohan-cabaye-s-pass-pact-with-newcastle-boss-79310-29971585/ Yohan Cabaye's pass pact with Newcastle boss Dec 18 2011 by Mark Douglas, Sunday Sun A COUPLE of months ago, Arsene Wenger gathered his scouts together at London Colney and posed them a pertinent question. Why, Arsenal’s professor wanted to know, hadn’t they brought him Yohan Cabaye – the France international bringing a touch of class to Newcastle United’s midfield? The answer was that they had presumed Cabaye would head for Real Madrid or even Barcelona. In fact, United, through their impressive network of scouts, snouts and contacts, had already convinced him his future lay on Tyneside before anyone else could so much as lay down a counter offer. So Wenger was left to prise a past-his-best Mikel Arteta from Everton, while United’s supporters have marvelled at the contribution of their “finesse” import – a player with a footballing philosophy that matches the traditions of his adoring hordes. “The first time I met Alan Pardew I asked him ‘How do you want to play? What is the style?’,” Cabaye told the Sunday Sun. “He said ‘With you, it will change’. I told him I want to have the ball at my feet, I want to pass the ball, pass again. “It reassured me a lot to hear that the first time I met him. It was my first move since Lille and not to another French club so it was more difficult. “I was pleased and relieved for him to say that. My mind was calmer because of that. I was reassured and I felt good.” Like his new manager, Cabaye is a bit of a stats obsessive. But while Pardew pores over distance covered and the movement of his Magpies, Cabaye is only interested in two figures – how many times he has touched the ball and how many “killer” balls he has managed to play. Touch the ball upwards of 100 times – as he did on a regular basis for Lille – and he’s happy. Anything less and he feels that he has not fulfilled his role as United’s creator-in-chief. “I love the passing game. I love getting my foot on the ball, I love touching the ball. For me Xavi and Iniesta are the best – it is like they do not play the same game as us,” he explained. “Last season I was focused on the ball and how many times I touched it. “When I was 100 or over I was happy – when I was under 100 I was sad. “I want to touch the ball every minute I can. I want to find the very difficult pass, to maybe find the striker or Hatem or the wide player. “It’s my job and I want to be focused on that. “For me the very difficult or beautiful pass – I like that.” What you notice about half way through a good half an hour in the company of Cabaye is how he simply never stops smiling. His English is coming on well too, the need for an interpreter lessening as he throws himself into the task of familiarising himself with a second language. Box sets of 24 and avid viewing of Sky Sports News have helped him – which is just as well as part-time translator Olly Bernard mistakenly ended up at St James’ Park rather the club’s Benton training base, leaving Cabaye to fend for himself. It is a familiar theme for a player who is out of France for the first time, but in common with the way he has taken to the Premier League Cabaye rises to the challenge. “It was not easy because I left my friends, my best friends, and my family at first,” he said. “At Lille when I finished training I could meet my friends to have lunch or whatever. “Here I can’t do that – it is different. “We were a very close team at Lille. We won the league and the French Cup so we became even closer in that season. “We are brothers for life because in 20 or 30 years they will still be talking about 2011 and what we managed to do.” Cabaye left Lille in the summer, eager to further his career and fulfil a “lifelong” dream of playing English football. Lauded by both his team-mates and Lille’s supporters for his mammoth contribution to their first title win for some 50 years, he has no regrets about making the move to the North East. It has not been easy – not being able to join in the dressing room jokes remains a “frustration” – but his obvious pleasure at pulling on a black-and-white shirt shines through. It has been enough to convince a few ex-colleagues that St James’ Park might not be a bad place to play . . . “It was only Newcastle who were prepared to take the chance. And it was a very good move for me. “When I was young I remember David Ginola playing for them. “Newcastle were top of the league, they were always one of the big teams in England. They still are. “I don’t know how France sees them now to be honest, but last week I saw my old team-mates and a few players told me: ‘Can you speak to the manager for me?’ “They know how much I love England and I love playing in England for Newcastle.” How far can Newcastle take Cabaye? He sees European forays as a realistic ambition. “I think we have a good, good quality in the squad. I think we have to focus on the top six or seven,” he said. “We can do that and with respect for Swansea and West Brom if we want to stay on top, we have to win this sort of game. “But we have a big respect for them, no problem. If we want to win we have to win these games.” Great work by the club and Pardew to get him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Thought he had a fantastic game, personally. His ability to spread the ball wide so accurately from such distance on such a consistent basis is little short of breathtaking tbh. Feels like a long time ago that we had a central midfielder who could do that. His set pieces were of varying quality, but he did deliver some good balls. Credit to Swansea, they defended well and without STaylor our players looked as harmless as eunuchs in the box. After a while I think he tried to angle his deliveries flatter to cause more problems (because Swansea were comfortably mopping up lofted looping efforts) and ended up hitting the first man a few times. Still, glad he gets a rest in a way - he's played every minute and Carling Cup games for a while now. Not the worst match for him to miss, and Tiote is back at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Just read that article, Cabaye was smiling a lot yesterday. Seemed to really be enjoying himself, which is good to see Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/12/18/yohan-cabaye-s-pass-pact-with-newcastle-boss-79310-29971585/ A COUPLE of months ago, Arsene Wenger gathered his scouts together at London Colney and posed them a pertinent question. Why, Arsenal’s professor wanted to know, hadn’t they brought him Yohan Cabaye – the France international bringing a touch of class to Newcastle United’s midfield? The answer was that they had presumed Cabaye would head for Real Madrid or even Barcelona. lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Olly B. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Graham Carr 1-0 Arsene Wenger Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 With Tiote back I'd like to see him push forward a bit more, as yesterday the gap between midfield and attack was a bit too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 With Tiote back I'd like to see him push forward a bit more, as yesterday the gap between midfield and attack was a bit too much. Totally agreed and probably why we didn't win yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. Normally we aren't missing such a player, because normally we've got Best and Ba and probably even Shola on his day to score us a goal. But on a day like yesterday, or on a day like the opening day against Arsenal - even against Wigan where Cabaye himself scored - we sometimes miss (a player like) Nolan to give us a goal out of nowhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VaVaVoom Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. While at Lille Cabaye played that kinda Nolan role and got a good few goals arriving late in the area. I think with him he is still learning the english game and still workin on the understanding with Tiote...Im pretty confident that in time he will be getting us 7/8 goals a season like, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. While at Lille Cabaye played that kinda Nolan role and got a good few goals arriving late in the area. I think with him he is still learning the english game and still workin on the understanding with Tiote...Im pretty confident that in time he will be getting us 7/8 goals a season like, I agree. Just needs to adapt game more. Have a team like Swansea putting 11 men behind the ball didn't help at all mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VaVaVoom Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. While at Lille Cabaye played that kinda Nolan role and got a good few goals arriving late in the area. I think with him he is still learning the english game and still workin on the understanding with Tiote...Im pretty confident that in time he will be getting us 7/8 goals a season like, I agree. Just needs to adapt game more. Have a team like Swansea putting 11 men behind the ball didn't help at all mind. Exactly. But it think he has the ability to rise above that its all just a question of him adapting and that takes time. He's adapted well so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. totally right, for instance on Obertan's pull-back. that was too deep for Ba and Best, but ideal for a breaking midfielder. however you have to ask whether or not we'd have controlled the game as we did with Nolan in there instead of Cabaye. Swansea pack the midfield and control possession in most matches, and when we picked up the balls in wide areas it was usually because Cabaye had sprayed an early ball out there from deep. So with Nolan going missing i think the game would've panned out quite differently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Graham Carr 1-0 Arsene Wenger To be fair Arsenal got Gervinho ahead of us so it's more 1 - 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Graham Carr 1-0 Arsene Wenger To be fair Arsenal got Gervinho ahead of us so it's more 1 - 1 Cabaye was cheaper and better. We got Ba for free, so Carr 2-0 Wenger. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Yeah but I think we got Obertan as second choice to Gervinho, we'd have had Ba anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 His set pieces were poor again yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 His set pieces were poor again yesterday. Apart from that free kick in the first few moments. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 And the one he put on Coloccini's head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Would have liked to have seen Cabaye and Nolan play in the same team. Think there could have been a feast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steggy Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I thought he was aactually pretty good yesterday. Played a motherfucker of a ball across the pitch early on for lightbulb skull to miscontrol. Also played that cheeky dink in to best that he chested down to the ba-meister. He also closes down so fuckin much, aint nobody got no time on the ball when yohans about Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 He's been pretty good at least in every game. It's going to be nice for him and Tiote to return, because Cabaye's only going to get better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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