• Alan Pardew: Frenchman is playing ‘as well as he ever did for me at Newcastle’
• Wilfried Zaha also sparkles in vibrant win over lacklustre AlbionBefore signing Yohan Cabaye from Paris Saint-Germain in July,Crystal Palace’s board feared that breaking the club’s transfer record risked shattering team unity. But Alan Pardew convinced it that there would be no awkward side-effects because his performances would prove beyond dispute that he is the best player at the club and deserves to be paid accordingly. So the manager welcomed Cabaye’s high-class contribution to this comprehensive victory over West Bromwich Albion, although Wilfried Zaha also had claims to being the man of the match.“It was a deal that knocked us out of kilter and the chairman and the board worried approximately that, and ” said Pardew of the £12.8m purchase of the French midfielder in July. “But I assured them that there’s no player that can knock on my door and say: ‘I want the same money as Cabaye.’ whether you increase the wage structure because someone has come in and they don’t deliver,then you gain got a problem. But they can all come and knock on my door on Monday and ask for more money, saying, or ‘I want Yohan’s money,’ and they’ll salvage a simple respond: ‘You’re not as good as him.’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com