Cabaye to Arsenal? L'Equipe: Don't Count On It

The reliable French sports daily L'Equipe is reporting today that Newcastle United will not deal Yohan Cabaye to another English club - i.e. Arsenal - preferring that the disgruntled midfielder move to France and Paris St.-Germain. 

"A number of British media have reported a willingness by Yohan Cabaye's agents to negotiate with Arsenal, which is interested in acquiring the international midfielder," says the paper. "But Newcastle, where the former Lille player landed two years ago and now wants to leave, does not, according to our information, want to help a London club. The Magpies could be more inclined to let the player go to PSG. In fact, the French champion has decided to revive its pursuit."

While an exact source isn't named, the fact that L'Equipe is relying on its own often trustworthy information rather than second-hand reporting lends credence to the report. Also well-heeled PSG is more likely to splash Newcastle's desired cash - widely reported to be £20 million - than thrifty Arsenal.

Already at least one Arsenal blog has gone comically off the rails at the report, indignant among other things at Arsenal being called a rival of Newcastle. My French is far from perfect, but I don't actually see that in the article - perhaps the mere hint is enough to send an Arsenal fan reeling. At any rate, it appears more likely that Newcastle will soak PSG's Qatari ownership for as close to 20 large as possible, then turn Cabaye loose to swim back across the channel.

Comments

[LadyArse]

You probably don't see it in L'Equipe online because it was in the print edition of the paper as I said in my post....If you think that post was 'off the rails' you should see some of my other ones.

[Ian]

That Arsenal site is a particularly precious one. Although saying that, a lot of Arsenal sites are becoming that way this summer due to our lack of transfer activity. Probably because those particular blogs are written by the overly hormonal: teenage boys and women.

Also L'Equipe has been less than reliable these days. They pretty much announced that we had signed Bernard earlier this summer.

[@12PointLead]

They're more angry about the implication that Newcastle is considered a rival, than the fact that they're not signing a pretty good midfielder in a particularly dry summer? Sigh.

[Beardsley's Love Child]

Apparently Mrs. LadyArse and her precious followers don't understand the semantics the word "rival" especially in French...