Robster Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ridman Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 !!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I've had some catching up to do, reading through all 83 pages Definately worth it Wow, what can i say, absolutely over the moon. Brilliant Teams can't handle one Demba, what about two? Wouldn't want to be be a defender against these two Imagine Ben Arfa and Cabayes through balls. They will have to have at least two men to defend against Ben Arfa when he runs at them, this will give our Super Demba's lots of space. Demba's can score all type of goals, And play in many different roles. Can't find words how happy i am at the moment, feels unreal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ExiledGeordie Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Cisse is 6ft and good in the air. I can see them alternating in terms of knock ons etc up front. As a defender it will be nigh on impossible to pick them up. From what I've seen on youtube too Cisse looks quicker than Ba too so you can really see Pardew getting his whole idea of "we need more pace in the side" across. Outrageous prospect to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrenchWilliam Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Interesting (and suprisingly positive) article from whese keys: 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, more tactically articulate, 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, currently 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 both 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, protracted, negotiations a wearer has finally been found for the iconic, recently empty, 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 supiciously minded 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, however, 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 would be 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 actually cost the club between £2m and £4m in terms of signing on and agents fees – and why the contract he was originally 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 during medicals, doubts persist surrounding the potential longevity of Ba's career. Pardew's hope is that they will prove unfounded and he 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 newcomer 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 the French club 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 which 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. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jan/18/newcastleunited-premierleague?newsfeed=true Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sho Time Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nechronical/jan2012/3/4/papiss-cisse-with-alan-pardew-526858629.jpg http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg809/scaled.php?server=809&filename=a95c16069c6e409b90c26d8.png&res=medium Fantastic! :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Wow. That article is surprising. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Mm, good read. Interesting figures, too. Can't wait to see Papisto in action with Ba for Senegal... and Newcastle obviously. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 If it's true Ba is keen on renegotiating his contract happy days. Hopefully appreciates us trusting his knee issue wouldn't end his career, and even if we give him the new contract and his knee explodes the week after he's earned the slight gamble. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9908/papissdembacisseandde00.jpg Someone said they'd never played together. Hmm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9908/papissdembacisseandde00.jpg Someone said they'd never played together. Hmm. Cisse a second later kicked Ba in the knee grabbed the no 9 and left Ba out the game injured Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliassenfredrik Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Still can't believe how quickly this got done. So fucking excited. Surely only Man City can field a better striking duo, but Demba-Demba can provide more goals. Brutal waiting a month to see them together in black and white, and at the same time watch Shola do his Sunday strolling in the park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 From last two seasons; Demba Ba league stats - 22 goals in last 27 games Papiss Cisse league stats - 31 goals in last 49 games Scary shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I'd love a rock the casbah to this: The Mackems don't like it. Cisse and Ba, Cisse and Ba. Etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Remember hearing a stat, amidst the wildness that was yesterday, that they had scored a cumulative 64 goals in the last 18 months between them. That's some Shearer-Ferdinand style shit, right there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 From last two seasons; Demba Ba league stats - 22 goals in last 27 games Papiss Cisse league stats - 31 goals in last 49 games Scary s***. Mad stats! Didn't Ba get quite a few goals for Hoffenheim (sp) before he moved to West Ham as well? Before Wikipedia got blacked out I had worked out between them, in the last season and a half they had scored 64 in total! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 From last two seasons; Demba Ba league stats - 22 goals in last 27 games Papiss Cisse league stats - 31 goals in last 49 games Scary s***. Mad stats! Didn't Ba get quite a few goals for Hoffenheim (sp) before he moved to West Ham as well? Before Wikipedia got blacked out I had worked out between them, in the last season and a half they had scored 64 in total! Yeah he did, 6 in 14 I think, forgot to add them in. Also missed out cup games so 64 is probably accurate. Mad stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 From last two seasons; Demba Ba league stats - 22 goals in last 27 games Papiss Cisse league stats - 31 goals in last 49 games Scary s***. That's class like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Well, congratulations on that signing. Came out of nowhere and got the man you needed, and one that should form a scary partnership with Ba. Pity he won't be available until the ACN finishes, but you don't sign players just for a month. Really great business Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Demba Ba @dembabafoot 56s Reply Retweet Favorite · Open I think even when he sleeps, he think about the back of the net. Welcome to papisto Still can't quite believe we signed this lad (and got the deal all wrapped up in 24 hours!). I like these out of the blue signings, again all credit to Ashley/Llambias/Charnley for getting this one over the line. Of course, the lad will need some time to adapt but I'm confident that once the first goal goes in, he'll be fine. Having Ba alongside him can only benefit him too. (2 Dembas! ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Well, congratulations on that signing. Came out of nowhere and got the man you needed, and one that should form a scary partnership with Ba. Pity he won't be available until the ACN finishes, but you don't sign players just for a month. Really great business Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Using http://www.soccerbase.com Ba Hoffenheim - 01 Aug, 08 to 28 Jan, 11 scored 37 goals in 97 games West Ham - 28 Jan, 11 to 17 Jun, 11 scored 7 goals in 12 games Newcastle - 17 Jun, 11 to now Scored 15 goals in 17 games ========================= Cisse Freiburg scored 35 goals in 55 games 2011/2012 he has scored 9 in 17 games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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