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I share your viewpoint that Cabaye hasn't lived up to expectations and his overall contributions of late have been far from what he produced at Newcastle.Perhaps down to the passing of time.

I think you've missed my point a little bit as I'm saying Cabaye is good enough and can make those passes like Shelvey.

Shelvey was great at passing against us and even better against United today, I won't argue at this stage of their careers, he wouldn't be an upgrade on Cabaye.

However, Shelvey isn't a miracle worker. He would come in and soon realise the passes he is capable of just aren't there. There is no through ball for Shelvey to play because Benteke doesn't move. There is no attacking midfielder to inter-link with because we don't have one.

Shelvey would come in, realise there's no point trying to set Benteke away as he never runs and soon start playing basic balls between himself and Luka and the inevitable wide ball to Wilf and Townsend.

Then a few months down the line someone would start a topic called 'Shelvey' asking has he been a massive dissapointment.

We could have prime Pirlo in our central midfield, there is NO ONE UPFIELD FOR HIM TO PASS TO.

Very unfair on Cabaye this topic.

He's one of the few players we have who is decent at maintaining possession and rarely gives the ball away stupidly.

We have a lot of problems, but Cabaye isn't one of them.

But I agree his set pieces are so bad, I have no idea why he keeps taking them. He hasn't kicked a decent corner all year. Get someone else to do it.

2017 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Middlesboro
2018 Jan. (Sako) Palace 1 - 0 Burnley
2019 May (Batshuayi, Batshuayi, OG, Van Aanholt, Townsend) Palace 5 - 3 Bournemouth
2020 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Newcastle

I've already deleted one of your posts in a different thread so please take this as a final warning that if you persist in this vendetta of yours you may find your posting privileges restricted.

Please stick to posting about the subject matter as no-one is interested in your opinions of other posters

I have to agree, he’s had a few great game for us but not enough. I’ve never thought wow he’s bossing the game, he’s just an average prem midfielder , but an average prem midfielder cost 15-20 mill to replace these days!

Cabaye at this stage of his career would be very useful for us coming off the bench with say 15 mins to go when we perhaps needed to get a goal against opponents who might be flagging.At the present, our injury situation means there is no alternative but to start him.

He has that ability to pick a pass but at 31 I'm not sure about his effectiveness over 90 mins.

Edited by Willo (12 Feb 2018 9.45am)