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Florian Thauvin is prepared to take a big wage cut to stay at Marseille next season.

The Newcastle winger does not want to return to St James’ Park and his agents have been told to find him a new club next season – but Thauvin is hoping to negotiate another season-long loan to stay at the Ligue 1 club.

Sources in France claim that will depend entirely on Thauvin’s willingness to take a pay cut. He is currently on more than £40,000-a-week and United will not subsidise his deal – meaning Marseille would have to fund his entire salary.

Newcastle are understood to be keen to make the move a permanent one and would like to smoke out interest from elsewhere. But discussions between the two clubs have centred on a loan move so far, and there may be a similar deal to the one negotiated with Cabella – where a set number of starts would see the move made permanent.

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He is not the only French player set to depart St James’ Park this summer.

Although he was named in the squad list that was released by the Premier League on Friday, Remy Cabella’s move to Marseille will go through at the end of the month with no problems.

It was suggested that Marseille’s financial problems might be the reason behind the delay in announcing Cabella’s move had been made permanent, but he has already agreed terms and the move was binding when the winger made 12 starts for the French club.

It will end a poor spell at Newcastle for Cabella, who played 31 times and scored once for United. Picked by Graham Carr, Alan Pardew was not sold on the player – believing him to be too lightweight. And despite efforts by John Carver to integrate him in the latter stages of the season, he welcomed the prospect of a move back to France when Marseille offered him the option.