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Demba Ba

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mad cyril said:
as id like to class myself as a sensible knowledgable mag then i'll weigh in. In my opinion he's done allright. He kept us up without Carroll so he achieved his goal. Some bad tactical descisions ie west brom when he just took his foot of the gas and some good tactical days man u, sunderland etc. On last season he was no better or worse than Bruce.

He's done better than I first feared but my concern is that he's Mikes pupett who will just roll over. Mike wants to sell his players and he cant do a thing about it.

Both clubs have pretty much been identical since January. Bent leaves, carroll leaves.

henderson leaves, nolan leaves.

Barton will leave, so might Gordan, Steed.

Both clubs are clearly cost cutting and hoping to bring in cheaper and hopefully better alternatives ie cabaye, Gardner, Gibson etc

I'll worry as should everyone else in August when things are done and dusted. Both teams will be unrecognisable from last season and us, like yous just need to worry about our own signings as oposed to each others.
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Agree with pretty much all of this. The only difference, imo, is that whereas we seem to be trying to bring in a bit of homegrown and Premier League experience, you're going almost exclusively for untested foreign imports or CCC player like this Neil Taylor. It worked with Tiote, but it might not every time. Your scouting network does seem pretty good on the face of it.

Also, I think the potential losses you're facing are probably a little worse than our's. A number of our loanees have gone back, with a couple of well wishes from here, but nobody is particularly bothered about signing them (Welbeck aside) whereas you're having the experienced, goal scoring and creating core of your team ripped out. Even Gordon, who I rate, wouldn't seem like such a loss because he's featured pretty rarely in his time here due to injury. Steed as well, good player that he is, could be replaced by a more influential in terms of goals and assists, player on similar wages.

Both clubs do apparently have a similar and frankly sensible model, though. That much is true.

ck1.gsy said:
I was worried we'd sign Ba, knowing that he'd play two games then be our new Matty Piper...yet I don't want him to go to the mags in case he does well.

Bloody football :(
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This :lol:
 

kermode said:
Agree with pretty much all of this. The only difference, imo, is that whereas we seem to be trying to bring in a bit of homegrown and Premier League experience, you're going almost exclusively for untested foreign imports or CCC player like this Neil Taylor. It worked with Tiote, but it might not every time. Your scouting network does seem pretty good on the face of it.

Also, I think the potential losses you're facing are probably a little worse than our's. A number of our loanees have gone back, with a couple of well wishes from here, but nobody is particularly bothered about signing them (Welbeck aside) whereas you're having the experienced, goal scoring and creating core of your team ripped out. Even Gordon, who I rate, wouldn't seem like such a loss because he's featured pretty rarely in his time here due to injury. Steed as well, good player that he is, could be replaced by a more influential in terms of goals and assists, player on similar wages.

Both clubs do apparently have a similar and frankly sensible model, though. That much is true.



This :lol:
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likewise I agree with majority of this. Your right that the goalscoring threat of last season looks like being totally broke up, however your right its a risk but ben arfa, cabaye and probably a.n other should hopefully be able to give us something else, also Carroll will be replaced by probably Ba so maybe can bring something to the table.

Its not the goalscoring threat that bothers me its the lack of leaders.
 
mad cyril said:
likewise I agree with majority of this. Your right that the goalscoring threat of last season looks like being totally broke up, however your right its a risk but ben arfa, cabaye and probably a.n other should hopefully be able to give us something else, also Carroll will be replaced by probably Ba so maybe can bring something to the table.

Its not the goalscoring threat that bothers me its the lack of leaders.
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Something we suffered from last season, which I think Bruce is trying to address by looking at the likes of Brown and O'Shea (though we'll probably miss out on both).

Impossible to judge either club until the window shuts really.
 
rocky said:
To sign for the scum within the next 24 hours, apparentley.

also the lad from Swansea. 3 players in before we sign anyone*

*Not counting Elmo
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What's the f***ing hurry? They are losing their best players by the minute. Stop being such a ladyboy.
 
Howard the Duck said:
For someone who's so negative about all of SAFC's dealings you don't seem to find it very hard to put a very positive slant on NUFC's.
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I'm merely looking at this from an unbiased point of view.

We all laughed at the Mags when we bought the likes of Gyan and Sessegnon while they were signing shite like Kuqi, and yet they make similar calibre signings and all people can say is that they're shite.

If the shoe was on the other foot and we were buying a player from the French Champions and a striker with a proven track record while they were signing free transfers from Birmingham we'd be laughing our cocks off at them.

Happily there seems to be a queue of players leaving the club, heaping pressure on those new players.
 
Connolly_31 said:
:confused: He has done a good job. I fully expected him to struggle like fuck and to be sacked after 3 months.
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They only won 3 of their last 15 games. It takes time for a manager to stamp his mark on a club but they were starting to get gradually worse under his management.
 
We were offerred Ba last summer (prior to signing Gyan) Bruce turned him down due to the state of his knee. Time will tell whether that was a good decision or a missed opportunity.
 
Dember Ba

Sorry I know there is another thread

But he just got off the Air France and got picked up by Newcastle officials

Your man in the airport

Durham
 
Re: Dember Ba

why we havent made a big play for this guy is beyond me, although i dont hate the fact n gog is coming would have much prefered ba!
 
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