Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew feels Remy Cabella can takeover the mantle from former midfielder Yohan Cabaye.
Pardew is hoping he and fellow newcomers Siem de Jong and Emmanuel Riviere can provide the flair and potency the club so clearly lacked during the second half of last season.
The 53-year-old said: "They are different players. What Remy does in terms of great moments in the game, he can create them - obviously Cabaye could do that, so there's a similarity in that.
"You need a framework for those players and a platform to win games. Now we need the other side of it, that special quality that Cabaye gave us, that Demba Ba gave, Loic Remy gave us.
"Cabella is very much a replacement for one of those three names, and De Jong and Riviere and Facundo (Ferreyra) and Rolando (Aarons) and Ayoze (Perez), who came on and produced a nice cameo, have got to ring the same bell as those other players."
