The Senegal international felt his time at the Stade Velodrome had run its course, especially when Newcastle came in with an offer.
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Habib Beye: "I didn't want to finish here on a negative note.
"Perhaps the start of the season had got into a routine. You sometimes felt like part of the furniture and that takes the pressure away. But you need that pressure.
"I am leaving to rediscover that and something bigger still. It is an offer I could not refuse.
"Being dropped by Marseille was a determining factor (in him moving).
"Not because I cannot deal with competition, because I have already experienced that.
"But the choices of the coach, without doubt legitimate, bothered me and it made me reconsider the situation."