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Newcastle sign French midfielder Cabella

(Reuters) - Newcastle United have signed French attacking midfielder Remy Cabella from Montpellier on a six-year contract, the Premier League club said on Sunday.

The 24-year-old Cabella was a member of the French World Cup squad in Brazil but did not play a match as the team reached the quarter-finals.

"It is great to finally be a Newcastle player," Cabella told Newcastle's website. "This is a move that I really wanted to make, as I have heard nothing but good things about Newcastle United from everyone I spoke to.

"I wanted to join a great English club and that is why I have arrived here. I'm looking forward to pulling on the shirt and playing in this magnificent stadium, and I will give this club my maximum."

British media reported that Cabella cost Newcastle 12 million pounds ($20.2 million) which would make him the club's third most expensive signing after former England strikers Michael Owen, in 2005, and Alan Shearer in 1996.


(Reporting by Ed Osmond, editing by Ian Ransom)