Newcastle Transfers: 10 Signs Remy Cabella Is Perfect Cabaye Replacement

6. 80%

Otherwise Known As: His Passing Success rate. For a midfielder, Cabella isn't the most impressive passer in the Premier League, if last season's stats for Montpellier are anything to go by, but his 80% return rate was only 3% less than Cabaye, and 7% less than top midfielder Cheick Tiote in those terms. The other thing that that stat does not say is that Cabella's play makes him look for passes that would be beneficial to his own agenda - mostly to score, or create a chance higher up the pitch, and the success rate might have something to do with his team-mates' inability to judge his vision, rather than him simply kicking the ball out of play. And it is far more valuable to have a creative player looking for dangerous, defence splitting balls - which is vindicated in the number of chances he generated last season - rather than someone like Tiote passing it four yards sideways and backwards.