Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 No but 19 is special to him. He doesn't want 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13861 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 He said he doesn't want the number 9 and that 19 is special to him. (Edit too slow!) When he gets to 19 goals this season he will do a special celebration he says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 That's fair enough. There's always the furore whenever we get a new number 9, bit ironic how Ba more than fits the bill and has his preferred number. Really comes across as a proper professional, it's very refreshing to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6307 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 He said he doesn't want the number 9 and that 19 is special to him. (Edit too slow!) When he gets to 19 goals this season he will do a special celebration he says. Love his positive attitude like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Would a release clause mean he can choose whichever club he likes for that minimum amount, or that we must accept some offer above that amount, but are at liberty as to which we do accept? If it's the latter then at least we can trigger a bidding war and get reasonable money for him. It'll be a minimum amount but I imagine it will be tied to a caveat such as relegation or not getting enough games or somesuch. The pay as you play element was the correct choice by Mashley. Someone should give the agent a bell pretending to be an interested club.. Edited January 11, 2012 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13861 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 He said he doesn't want the number 9 and that 19 is special to him. (Edit too slow!) When he gets to 19 goals this season he will do a special celebration he says. Love his positive attitude like He said 'if' I'm saying 'when'. He just keeps saying he wants to work hard, which is a great attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Can't stop scoring. http://www.pressafrik.com/En-live-Match-amical-Senegal-vs-Soudan-but-de-Demba-BA-1-0_a75400.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Interesting celebration... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Expectations are high for Black athletes in that regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donaldstott 0 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 sunday league defending.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34505 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Dunno if I've missed it, and this is already known on here, but according to the Times today, Ba's release clause does exist, but doesn't activate until the end of the season. So there you go - may or may not be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Ba's release clause seems to undergo more changes than Leazes' nappy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Dunno if I've missed it, and this is already known on here, but according to the Times today, Ba's release clause does exist, but doesn't activate until the end of the season. So there you go - may or may not be true. Because its a relegation clause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 New contracts for Colo, Ba and Guthrie > any new signings in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaythesouthernmag 0 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 He's probably never played for fans like ours and had the kind of support he gets at sjp and also the away following. I hope this inspires him and Cisse both on and off the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12460 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Dunno if I've missed it, and this is already known on here, but according to the Times today, Ba's release clause does exist, but doesn't activate until the end of the season. So there you go - may or may not be true. Because its a relegation clause. Aye this is what I reckon it is in all, it seems he likes to include a relegation release clause and Ashley wouldn't have let him go for free if we went down so made sure there was a sum attached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Bit tired of listening/reading (to) the media talking about Ba being off as if it's a foregone conclusion. Not really worried about him or anyone exiting during this window for what it's worth, I imagine if anything transpires it'll be in the summer. If this clause is 100% real (Redknapp really is a complete and utter prick for publicly revealing its existence, imagine if someone did that about a Spurs player), then we need to tie him down to a new contract with no silly clauses. Sometimes we'll be better off not cashing in on players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Had a random look at earlier posts and according to this one he's on a fairly low wage anyway. Scottwilsonecho Scott Wilson@ @TOONLOWDOWN Contract heavily incentivised apparently. Fairly low basic wage, but big bonuses for appearances and goals. And on top of that he's only on a 3 year deal - so get another contract sorted for him Derek! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5924 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Interesting info on Ba's contract in the Guardian During an enforced sabbatical between his sacking by Southampton and appointment as Newcastle United's manager, Alan Pardew toured Germany.His mission was to visit Bundesliga clubs, watch them train and discover precisely why they often produce technically superior and more tactically astute footballers than their Premier League equivalents. At the time two Senegal international strikers were making headlines in that country, Demba Ba scoring freely for Hoffenheim and Papiss Demba Cissé beginning to do likewise at Freiburg. Now the pair, on Africa Cup of Nations duty in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, have been united domestically as Newcastle's new attacking partnership. While Ba, the scorer of 15 Premier League goals this season, arrived on Tyneside as a free transfer from West Ham last summer, Cissé joined for around £7.5m, potentially rising to £9m, on Tuesday. Although Graham Carr, Newcastle's powerful chief scout, identifies many of the club's transfer targets and is understood to have first watched Cissé two seasons ago, Pardew has had a big input in the pursuit of Ba and his fellow African. Indeed Pardew now claims that, as soon as Andy Carroll departed for Liverpool in an extraordinary £35m deadline day deal last January, he identified Cissé as the ideal replacement. After 12 months of discreet and protracted negotiations a wearer has been found for the famous black-and-white striped No9 shirt. Sixth in the Premier League, a point ahead of Liverpool and breathing down the necks of fifth-placed Arsenal, Newcastle increasingly appear Europa League bound and Cissé's signing on a five-and-a-half-year contract can be interpreted as a statement of ambitious intent. The fear among more suspicious fans is that Mike Ashley, the club's owner and a man with a pronounced eye for the bottom line, could be preparing to cash in on one of Pardew's prized assets: Cheik Tioté, Tim Krul, Fabricio Coloccini, Yohan Cabaye or even Ba. Attempting to second-guess Ashley is a futile game and, much as he wants to keep his star collection intact, Pardew knows that a huge bid for one of his leading lights would almost inevitably prompt a sale. Ba could prove the exception. Although the striker has a release clause – thought to be set at £7m in his contract – he is believed to be rather keener on renegotiating that agreement than leaving Newcastle. In practical terms a player who has a degenerative knee condition – Pardew describes it as "a deficiency in the knee" but, publicly at least, is deliberately vague regarding the precise details – which caused him to fail medicals ahead of collapsed moves to Stuttgart and Stoke is extremely unlikely to command a £7m transfer fee. Ba's knee is the reason why he arrived at Newcastle on a free transfer – even if the deal cost the club between £2m and £4m in terms of signing on and agents fees – and why the contract he was offered had to be redrafted after Pardew revealed that there were "issues" with the medical. Although Ba earns a basic weekly wage – reported to be around £35,000 – it is topped up by about £20,000 every time he features in a game. It is this incentivised, pay-as-you-play element that Ba and his advisers seem keen to renegotiate. With the forward training virtually every day and remaining injury free, Pardew recently said: "I don't need no surgeon to tell me about Demba's knee." Even so, with at least three leading consultants having independently highlighted his joint problem, doubts persist surrounding the potential longevity of Ba's career. Pardew's hope is that they will prove unfounded and Ba will form an enduring club as well as international partnership with his latest sidekick. If the wonderfully gifted Ba is more of a classic No10, Cissé offers complementary talents. Lightning quick – and pace is a commodity Pardew is endeavouring to furnish Newcastle with – 6ft tall and wiry, the 26-year-old is good in the air and extremely prolific. Despite Freiburg's position at the foot of the Bundesliga , Cissé has scored nine times in 15 domestic appearances this season. Since arriving in Germany from Metz for £1.3m in 2009, the Dakar born centre-forward has registered 37 goals in 65 games, with last year's league haul of 22 making him the Bundesliga's second top scorer behind Bayern Munich's Mario Gomez. After a deceptively low-key beginning to a career that started in Senegal and later transported him to France's unfashionable Ligue 2, Cissé's name was finally up in lights. "Welcome to Papisto," tweeted Ba on Tuesday. "I think even when he sleeps, he thinks about the back of the net." Sounds like the perfect Newcastle No9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 FAO admins - any way of removing the colour data when people quote stuff? The above for example is unreadable unless I highlight it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Just tweeted this. Gutted for him, really, regardless of how it helps the club. http://twitter.com/dembabafoot dembabafoot Demba BaI don't know what to say really! I've never felt so bad, losing is one of the worst feeling 12 minutes ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bias 3 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Not a bad read J69. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16686 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Not a bad read J69. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8994 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 See that is a decent article. Ryder, if you're reading, take note. Does this mean we can subtract £4m from that infamous £27m? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Once he bangs a couple more goals in with his mate for us then he'll feel better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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