Newcastle struck gold with Mathieu Debuchy

Newcastle United have endured and loved the highs and lows of the switch market over time with plenty of failures and successes in home windows passed by.

One participant the membership struck gold with was the signing of French right-back Mathieu Debuchy. The defender joined the Magpies from Lille for a payment within the area of £5m in January 2013.

Alan Pardew, who was in control of the membership on the time, hailed the signing and defined what he would provide on the pitch, saying:

“He’s a longtime high worldwide participant and it’s a actual coup for this membership that we now have him at St James’ Park.

“Mathieu will add actual high quality to our staff, by way of his means, character and expertise and I’m certain he’ll rapidly turn out to be a agency favorite amongst our followers too.”

He arrived in England after amassing a whopping 308 appearances for Lille in his residence nation, taking part in common top-flight soccer after coming by their academy set-up and making his debut for France previous to becoming a member of Newcastle.

The total-back nearly instantly turned an everyday within the Toon aspect after becoming a member of in January as he performed 14 instances within the second half of the 2012/13 Premier League marketing campaign, making 4.7 tackles and interceptions per outing.

Firstly of 2013/14, Pardew praised the right-back’s dedication out on the pitch, saying: “He places his life on the road each time in each recreation he performs.”

He loved an excellent season as he performed 29 matches within the league and chipped in with one aim and 4 assists from right-back, while averaging a WhoScored rating of 7.44 – putting him second within the Newcastle squad, with Yohan Cabaye (7.48) the one participant with the next common rating.

Debuchy made a whopping 5.7 tackles and interceptions per recreation for the Magpies and topped the charts for the membership in that statistic, which reveals how necessary he was to the defensive construction of the staff.

His chic type at St. James’ Park caught Arsenal’s eye and Arsene Wenger swooped to signal him in the summertime of 2014 for a payment within the area of £12m.

Which means that Newcastle made a revenue of £7m on Debuchy regardless of solely having him on the membership for 18 months, which illustrates how a lot of a cut price their preliminary deal to signal him from Lille was.

The Magpies struck gold by signing the Frenchman in 2013 and loved a season-and-a-half of wonderful performances from him at right-back earlier than pocketing a sizeable chunk of change.