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Back in January 2014, Yohan Cabaye joined PSG for an estimated initial €20 million fee from Newcastle United.

Since then, the France international has done little to justify that price tag, and his time in Paris can be considered a failure.

Acquired to cover for Adrien Rabiot as he recovered from a knee injury at the time, Cabaye has failed to push for a place in coach Laurent Blanc’s starting XI. The 29-year-old currently finds himself behind the 20-year-old Rabiot in the pecking order after a disappointing 2014-15 season at Parc des Princes.

In his only full campaign with the club to date, Cabaye started just 13 times in 24 Ligue 1 appearances and scored once. The former Lille OSC man was a peripheral part of Le President’s UEFA Champions League plans.

The PSG No. 4 did feature more in the domestic cups—as the capital club went on to complete the first-ever clean sweep of silverware in French football history—and he also found the net once in the 2-0 round-of-16 win over FC Nantes.

However, he only made a late cameo appearance in the Coupe de la Ligue final and was an unused substitute during their Coupe de France triumph.

Being fair to Cabaye, he has had some unlucky injuries since arriving in Paris.

However, when fit and given a chance by Blanc—a coach who is known to particularly like the midfielder from their time together with the France national team—he has simply failed to take his chances.

Cabaye threatened to rediscover some of his old form at the start of 2015 after a few encouraging displays, but injury quickly put a stop to that and he has yet to recover.

With the 2016 UEFA European Championship on home soil less than 12 months away, Cabaye finds his place in Didier Deschamps’ plans under threat and the coach has already advised the player to remedy his lack of regular football this summer.