Newcastle: Marveaux Will Return As "Hell Of A Player"

On-loan Frenchman will return even better to Newcastle.

By Simon Gallagher /

The future for Sylvain Marveaux's Newcastle career has been on the wall for a long time: unfairly judged to be a poor worker and a complainer (for saying he couldn't and wouldn't play out of position) he was cast off long before he went out on loan. But his current coach is heaping praise on the player, who he says can only improve. According to Jocelyn Gourvennec, current coach of Guingamp, Sylvain Marveaux is taking his chance to impress at the French club, even though the club's President admits he is out of their league. He has opened up on the player who Alan Pardew didn't want at Newcastle, saying that on his day he's far above the level Guingamp offer:
"We know that when operating at his level, he's not a player for Guingamp. His future is not here, he has the qualities to evolve well above. He has used us as a springboard but it does not bother us at all."
Pardew might believe that a corner has now been turned, but the Leicester win is not enough to prove that all of the decisions he has made so far this season and in the summer are anywhere near correct. And that includes sending Marveaux out on loan. Gourvennec says he is happy enough to help Marveaux progress, and that it will be to Newcastle's benefit:
"We do a little of Newcastle's work, they are going to get a hell of a player."
Guingamp aren't exactly pulling up trees in Ligue 1 this season, but giving Marveaux playing time, and keeping talents like Giannelli Imbula could help them pull away from the relegation zone. In all honesty, no matter how well Marveaux plays, or how good he is once his loan is up at the end of the summer, it's unlikely Newcastle will even bother to look at him. His loan was nothing more than an admission that he is surplus to requirements, and Pardew is hardly known for too many about-turns on decisions. He has a contract until June 2016, but you can probably just accept now that he's on his way in the summer. And few could blame him.