Yohan Cabaye has identified the main difference he sees in Alan Pardew at Crystal Palace, compared with the manager he worked with at Newcastle.

Pardew’s Newcastle signed the talented Frenchman on a five-year deal from Lille in the summer of 2011.

The pair worked with each other for over three years – Cabaye making 79 Premier League appearances for the club and scoring 17 goals – until Pardew was sacked at the end of 2014.

Cabaye, 29, returned to France only a month later, linking up with Paris Saint-Germain in a move worth an estimated £19m.

However, last summer the duo reunited at Selhurst Park and Cabaye has made a superb start to life in south London under his former boss.

The France international identified one real difference between the Pardew who managed at St James’ Park and the one in charge of high-flying Palace now.

“In general he is the same,” Cabaye told the Crystal Palace website.

“But I think he’s more involved in the club at Palace. You look at the training ground, the stadium, everything; he’s involved.

“For him he feels much better than he did at Newcastle, I think. What he’s done from the start [at Palace] has been fantastic.”

Cabaye, who has already scored six goals for Palace this season, also opened up about his relationship with Pardew.

He said: “We have a very good relationship, it's very faithful.

“He can trust me, I can trust him and that's why I was fully following his team. When he came here I was watching more Palace and became a lot more interested in the team.

“That's when he called me [about a transfer] and I knew the team before he started talking about them!

“That was really, really important for me.”