After weeks of speculation, the club have announced that former Newcastle United midfielder has signed from Paris Saint Germain.
It is arguably the biggest signing the club has made since Italian Attilio Lombardo joined in 1997. That in itself was a real coup for an unfashionable club and this latest news has a lot of similarities.
The signing of the Frenchman is on par with that of Lombardo particularly as it shows a real sign of intent by the club after finishing 11th and 10th in the last two season in the Premier League.
The French midfielder joins Palace on a four year deal for a fee believed to be in the region of £10 million with an additional £3 million in add-ons.
The 29 year old born in Tourcoing began his football career with his local youth team before moving to Lille in 1998. After signing professional terms he made his first team debut in 1998 and appeared almost 200 times for the club scoring 31 goals.
A move to Newcastle United in 2011 brought him to the Premier League where he made 79 appearances scoring 17 goals. He moved back to France with Paris Saint Germain in 2014 but he did feature as regularly as he would have liked only making 38 appearances and scoring one goal.
His international career has worked its way through most of the youth levels for France and being capped for the full international side a total of 38 times to date and scoring 3 goals.
An overriding memory of Cabaye is witnessing his influential performance in Newcastle’s 3-0 win at Selhurst Park just before Christmas in 2013.
We welcome Yohan to South London and we look forward to seeing him play in the famous red and blue.
