Crystal Palace midfielder Yohan Cabaye believes "certain players" at Paris Saint-Germain did not want him to join the club when he arrived from Newcastle last year and insists he has made the right choice by returning to the Premier League this summer.
Cabaye, 29, joined PSG in January 2014 as an established Premier League star following a successful two-and-a-half season-long spell at St James' that saw him become a regular for the France national team under Laurent Blanc, who left Les Bleus to become PSG boss in 2012.
However, his arrival reportedly did not impress some of the more influential players at the Parc des Princes.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic claimed he had never seen Cabaye play at the time of his £19 million signing, while French media reported that the Sweden captain and teammate Thiago Silva expressed concerns to the club's Qatari owners that the Frenchman was not up to the challenge of playing for the reigning Ligue 1 champions.
Cabaye, who joined Palace this summer after starting just 22 league matches for PSG, has made a strong start on his return to England after being reunited with former Newcastle manager Alan Pardew at Selhurst Park. He scored on his debut in the 3-1 win at Norwich, and the Eagles have won two of their three games so far this term.
The former Lille midfielder told Canal+ that some of the PSG squad had not made him feel welcome in the French capital.
"It's hard when you know you're in a team where you're going to try things, and -- in the end -- when you try them, sometimes you pull them off and sometimes not," he said. "And if you don't succeed, you're taken off. You try things, and you get two or three looks as soon as you make a mess of one pass.
"I know that when I arrived, perhaps there were certain players that didn't want me to come. As soon as there was a ball lost, an interception missed or not the right pass, people would shout, would look at you strangely."
At PSG, Cabaye was unable to recapture the form which saw him dictate matches and score important goals for Newcastle, notably the winner at Manchester United in December 2013.
Despite the frosty relationship with some of his teammates, he also acknowledged that he was partly responsible for being unable to break up Blanc's first-choice midfield trio of Thiago Motta, Blaise Matuidi and Marco Verratti.
"It didn't go as I wanted in Paris, but I have no hard feelings towards anyone," he said. "Perhaps I lacked a little insouciance in my play. Perhaps I asked myself too many questions. That's why I don't want to hide behind injuries and excuses. Yes, I think there wasn't enough 'Yohan' in my game."
Cabaye had been heavily linked with Arsenal before opting to join PSG, and his arrival at Palace was viewed as a real transfer coup for the London club. However, Cabaye is happy that he made the right decision.
"No one from the big clubs came forward, but it's not a default choice, far from it," he said. "I have been reunited with my former coach and I was not heading into the unknown. I feel really good."