PSG agree new contract for Laurent Blanc which spurs him into late January shopping trip.

Yohan Cabaye is still a target for PSG this month, manager Laurent Blanc confirming the Newcastle midfielder is still under consideration.

Laurent Blanc’s latest comments about Yohan Cabaye have once again ‘blurred’ the lines with regard to his intentions surrounding a possible move by PSG.

I don’t know what is going on and where we will end up but what I do know is that the way Newcastle United acts in so many ways is just plain wrong. It is almost making me nostalgic to hear JFK talking about winning the World Cup and wrestling Grizzly Bears as a schoolboy.

It is clear PSG/Blanc are very interested in taking Cabaye but the two unknowns are what the tipping points are for Newcastle United/Ashley (how much?) and Yohan himself (how content/happy he is at St.James’ Park and where he sees his ambitions able to be realised).

It was Blanc of course who gave Yohan Cabaye his first international cap and he has stated his admiration for our midfielder many times since.

Laurent Blanc, “Cabaye is indispensable in terms of how he played in the first two games in the competition, absolutely. You realise how much players like that bring when they are not actually there.

“The talent, it is expensive. You never have too much. After, you have to manage them and that they remain part of the team”.

Laurent Blanc: “I haven’t just waited for the last few performances to follow Hatem. We know he is a very talented boy. He has become callable again”.