The 25-year-old France midfielder returns to the side on Saturday, having served a one-game ban for the needless red card he picked up in the recent defeat at West Ham.
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Alan Pardew: "We have not had contact from anybody else or heard from anybody else, but I take the point (he could be a target for others).
"He is playing for a club where big clubs have come before and taken players away. I understand that so therefore, I guess, he is a player they will be looking at.
"That’s all I can say because he has been terrific for us."