Newcastle Banter Archive December 20 2012

20 Dec 2012 22:34:49
Quaresma on a FREE!! ED waddya think?? {Ed003's Note - first I've heard of it tbh,I heard you have an interest in Ince though}

Thought he had a hump on his back.

20 Dec 2012 15:53:50
alright barcodes see you got kharkiv in cup go if you can great trip when we played them 3yrs ago[everton] dead cheap 50p pint but take us dollars to spend also not worst team you could of got.

20 Dec 2012 14:22:07
Remy would be greta to bring in if we can, but I would prefer to get rid of cisse instead of Ba. Ba and Remy can both play on the wing so would improve our versatility. i would try get rid of obertan as part of the remy deal too. Sissokho would be awesome to bring in, along with Debuchy, or possibly Micah Richards, who would also provide cover at CB. I think we should use Cambell in the first team more as well, as he brings a much different type of striker to any striker we have been linked with so far... look at Aguero, one of the best strikers in the league, and he isn't a giant, but knocks them in every week.

When you compare cisse and ba in the 433 striker cisse is more prolific and consistent but in the 442 with a good strike partner, ba is better but 433 works for us as a team. Also ba is being a bit selfish and we should move on from him, because this saga is just annoying me.

Ba can play on the wing?

I do not mean to be rude but did you watch him play out wide when he came back from the Afcon last season?

He was by far and away our worst player in the 2nd half of last season, ferguson was coming on and lifting the team, such was the substandard of Ba's wide football.

You only have to watch Ba take the ball into his feet to know he is not the most skillfully blessed footballer, he tries the occasional backheel but that by no means makes him a dribbler or composed.

Cisse has skill with his feet, and unlike Ba has tracked back and made tackles when played wide.

I have total faith in our number 9, his predatory instincts are looking sharp again. Cisse was only stopped by some very good goal keeping against Man City.

What games and what player are you watching? Of course Ba can play on the wing! its his natural position. thats where he played for west ham and the team in germany.

also when he played out there cisse was scoring bag fulls.

on top of that you say Ba cant atke a ball with his feet!

Eh? most of his goals are taken in his stride before striking them at goal so that kind of rubbishes your thoughts doesnt it?

yes cisse is more skillfull on the ball but not at taking the ball in his stride and add the fact that Ba tortured man utds defence last season with his direct running and general ball play id think again

I will ask this question again.

Did you see the games in which Ba played wide after coming back from the Afcon?

I would be willing to wager my house on the fact that Ba gave the ball away more than any other premier league player in the 2nd half of the league last season.

If you think Ba can play wide then answer me the above question.

Where did you get the information that Ba played on the wing in Germany and at West Ham, you are denigrating a very legitimate argument here and then making up facts.

To be fair if you are going to correct someone on a footballing idea it would probably be best if you did not make up facts about players that simply do not exist.

Ba is not a winger, never has been, never will be.

No idea aout his time in Germany but Ba was very often used coming in from the left, with very good affect, at West Ham.

19 Dec 2012 23:47:23
Is the ba clause still to a champions league club? Just not sure why I've read qpr are looking to bid. Does Harry 'del boy' redknapp still think he's at spuds?

Think it means teams outside of champions lge can buy they just have to pay more

The release is only to a team playing in the champions league so that would also rule out man city and chelsea but apparent interest still from russia and turkey

any club outside the champions league will have to py his market value or the clubs valuation which would probably be over 15 million and pushing 25 million.

Sly sports have been saying he can go to anyone, it kind of makes sense when you think about it. No one knows who will be in next years cl. Its up to him to choose who he goes to!

Pushing 25 million ?? more like 11 mill i reckon

11 million for a guy who scored 8 goals in 14 games for west ham, 16 by xmas for us last year and 11 already in the league this year?

come on, be serious!

mich has been quoted as being worth nearly 30 million so ba would surely be pulling the same kind of figure.

carrol cost 35 million and look at him

torres cost 50 million and would still cost you a good fee so surely with the fact Ba does score it would push his fee up to at least 20 million