Montpellier coach launches attack on Newcastle as a club and city Montpellier coach Rolland Courbis has launched a spiteful attack on Newcastle United and the English city as anger grows in France about the English club's attempts to sign their best player Remy Cabella. Newcastle have had huge success in the transfer market in France and are hoping to make Cabella, a highly-rated France Under-21 international, their 11th signing from the country in the space of just three and a half years. But Newcastle's tactics to unsettle targets and stubborn negotiations with clubs over the size of the fee have annoyed many on the other side of the channel and Courbis has lashed out, insisting he cannot understand why anyone would want to live in Newcastle. "They are not a big club," Courbis claimed. And I hope another club tries to buy him. As a player I would not even want to spend a week there [Newcastle]. Courbis reacted to Newcastle's pursuit following a claim from the player's agent and father Hector that he was hoping to secure a move to St James" Park in this transfer window. "Yes we are negotiating for Rémy - and yes he will join Newcastle this winter," he told Actuafoot.fr Montpellier are reluctant to sell Cabella in this window as they are in a relegation battle in Ligue 1 and would prefer to wait until the summer, when they hope more clubs will be interested and they can take advantage of a potential bidding war. Newcastle are willing to pay £10m in one lump sum, rather than the £12m Montpellier have asked for this month, and believe the player has made up his mind he wants to join them.