AyeDubbleYoo Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Probably not going to be a popular thing to say on here. But I wont be too fussed if we sell Ba on in the summer. His price is at the largest its going to ever be.. I just feel that even when he was scoring goals, his all round play is not good enough. His passing has been sloppy all season, he constantly trys to turn instead of playing the earlier easy pass, he struggles to physically dominate most centre halfs... If we get an offer of say 12 million pounds .. I wouldnt hesitate to sell him and replace him with a pacier/ wide player. I can't agree with this in terms of Demba's quality early in the season- he was top class. However, today was a classic example of where we should have played 4-3-3 but didn't with the most likely reason being that they didn't trust Demba to track Zabaleta. The first goal comes from them outnumbering us in the middle. If Demba was to go with us signing two pacy 4-3-3 style widemen, it wouldn't be the end of my world and it would lessen the impact of the ACON next year as well. A straight swap for Gameiro wouldn't be too bad either! I agree .. I remember against Man Utd at home where his performance was completely dominant .. but since then hes the one player that frustrates the hell out of me.. as he has an inability to retain posession... without scoring goals he is not an asset to the side at all. pure short termism. if you could find one newcastle fan in january who would advocate getting rid of ba i will give you a million pounds. he's not scored in a while so some fans are going to start saying he's shite. personally i don't think we should lose one player in the squad this summer, as it is already too small for european football next season. the idea that some fans think we should sell one of our players of the season, leaving us with just cisse up front (and shola) for an entire season of european football (hopefully) beggars belief. We CANNOT afford to lose demba ba, we were shit scared he would leave in jan, just because he hasn't scored in a few months doesn't change the fact that he is a player with a lot of ability. personally i would like to see a settled team for a few years. there are some top class (i mean top class) individuals in this side, and not just a few, there are 4-5 players who would not look out of place in some of the best teams in the world on current form, and another 3-5 who are also good enough for champions league football. if we can keep this squad together for a couple more years, without losing any/many and making small additions where necessary then we could be an excellent team, because as good as were playing at the moment, we are more a team with very good individuals than a very good team at the moment. Ben Arfa, Ba, Cisse, Cabaye, Santon and to a lesser extent Krul have only had one season playing together as a team. The only players to have played in our first team for over 3 years are Jonas, Colo and Taylor (who doesn't really count this season), who are our joint longest serving players, having been here for 4 years. When you compare that to teams like arsenal, man u and chelsea that is a very small number. We need to stop playing football manager and continue to mould our excellent group of individuals into an excellent team that can face teams like chelsea and arsenal and win by playing better football than they do, which i think our team now, with a couple of additions in one or two areas, is capable of. Proper bo post that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VegasToon Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Probably not going to be a popular thing to say on here. But I wont be too fussed if we sell Ba on in the summer. His price is at the largest its going to ever be.. I just feel that even when he was scoring goals, his all round play is not good enough. His passing has been sloppy all season, he constantly trys to turn instead of playing the earlier easy pass, he struggles to physically dominate most centre halfs... If we get an offer of say 12 million pounds .. I wouldnt hesitate to sell him and replace him with a pacier/ wide player. I can't agree with this in terms of Demba's quality early in the season- he was top class. However, today was a classic example of where we should have played 4-3-3 but didn't with the most likely reason being that they didn't trust Demba to track Zabaleta. The first goal comes from them outnumbering us in the middle. If Demba was to go with us signing two pacy 4-3-3 style widemen, it wouldn't be the end of my world and it would lessen the impact of the ACON next year as well. A straight swap for Gameiro wouldn't be too bad either! I agree .. I remember against Man Utd at home where his performance was completely dominant .. but since then hes the one player that frustrates the hell out of me.. as he has an inability to retain posession... without scoring goals he is not an asset to the side at all. pure short termism. if you could find one newcastle fan in january who would advocate getting rid of ba i will give you a million pounds. he's not scored in a while so some fans are going to start saying he's shite. personally i don't think we should lose one player in the squad this summer, as it is already too small for european football next season. the idea that some fans think we should sell one of our players of the season, leaving us with just cisse up front (and shola) for an entire season of european football (hopefully) beggars belief. We CANNOT afford to lose demba ba, we were shit scared he would leave in jan, just because he hasn't scored in a few months doesn't change the fact that he is a player with a lot of ability. personally i would like to see a settled team for a few years. there are some top class (i mean top class) individuals in this side, and not just a few, there are 4-5 players who would not look out of place in some of the best teams in the world on current form, and another 3-5 who are also good enough for champions league football. if we can keep this squad together for a couple more years, without losing any/many and making small additions where necessary then we could be an excellent team, because as good as were playing at the moment, we are more a team with very good individuals than a very good team at the moment. Ben Arfa, Ba, Cisse, Cabaye, Santon and to a lesser extent Krul have only had one season playing together as a team. The only players to have played in our first team for over 3 years are Jonas, Colo and Taylor (who doesn't really count this season), who are our joint longest serving players, having been here for 4 years. When you compare that to teams like arsenal, man u and chelsea that is a very small number. We need to stop playing football manager and continue to mould our excellent group of individuals into an excellent team that can face teams like chelsea and arsenal and win by playing better football than they do, which i think our team now, with a couple of additions in one or two areas, is capable of. Proper bo post that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankpingel Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Interesting comments from AP about him being more motivated by emotion than money. Those of us going to Everton need to offer our usual encouragement. Would be my favourite player to score and make the dream a reality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Really hope he stays despite his lack of goals in recent games. The amount of goals he's given us first half of the season was tremendous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juniatmoko Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Must buy left forward for next season europe. We need fresh strikers always.. so cisse & ba rotation is obvious choice as center forward. We mustn't let him go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 He's not been far off scoring, bar the width of a post and a few good saves/blocks this would be a none issue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Had a dream last night we beat bolton 3-1, all goals in the first 7 minutes. Pato for bolton. Demba just couldnt score. Missed some absolute sitters Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Had a dream last night we beat bolton 3-1, all goals in the first 7 minutes. Pato for bolton. Demba just couldnt score. Missed some absolute sitters The nonchalance in how this was said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Demba Ba @dembabafoot Hello paul smith, from the sun! Before writing on the paper please make sure thats me talking to you mate. Expand Reply Retweet Favorite Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MW Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Which tesco in Durham supposedly has the syrup? My mate went to the big one in the city centre and asked if they had it, n the guy looked at him as if he were crazy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I really don't blame him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 It usually comes in a small green and gold tin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Crossing the line like, searching out Demba's favourite drink. One step away from a goat sacrifice outside Cisse's house. Fuck it, i'm in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisMcQuillan Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Which tesco in Durham supposedly has the syrup? My mate went to the big one in the city centre and asked if they had it, n the guy looked at him as if he were crazy It'll either be the one on North Road or the Tesco Extra out Gilesgate direction then. Most likely the huge one in Gilesgate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Had a dream last night we beat bolton 3-1, all goals in the first 7 minutes. Pato for bolton. Demba just couldnt score. Missed some absolute sitters The nonchalance in how this was said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Yeh thats what I suspected. More likely the big one by market square ahead of north road though surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Got a feeling about Demba today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I don't, to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I think I've got as much a chance of notching today as Demba. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I've finally dropped him from my fantasy team after persevering throughout his drought - bound to score today now.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I've finally dropped him from my fantasy team after persevering throughout his drought - bound to score today now.... The bugger cost me a top six finish. Kept faith with him for far too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I've finally dropped him from my fantasy team after persevering throughout his drought - bound to score today now.... The bugger cost me a top six finish. Kept faith with him for far too long. Aye, he's cost me badly too - even made him captain a few times to try spur him into action. Resisted the urge to replace him with Cisse, didn't want to transfer the jinx. Brought Jelavic in instead.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I have had enough. Let him go this summer. I cannot accept him doing nothing except trying ridiculous long shot on the pitch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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