Mr. King was probably the best CB in the world by a good stretch when fit, a bad knee is nothing compared to that. Ba on the other hand is not world class, he's good, but far from world class.any spurs fans turning their noses up at a player because of a bad knee should be ashamed of themselves
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I've been thinking this for days now. Where else can you get a quality striker for that price. Especially in a world where Steven Fletcher is 12m.
I'd gamble on and Ba and his knees for 7m. Wouldn't even bat an eyelash.
Don't take the piss out of Fletcher The Goal Machine. £12m was a steal.
Blimey, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Ledley King was a fantastic defender when fit, but no way on earth was he 'the best CB in the world by a good stretch'
He was certainly up there...
The best in the world? No chance.
For sure, but in hell would freeze over before I think of him as far and away the best centre-back on the planet (at the time).
Considering Henry, one of the best strikers if not the best in the world for many years, sad to say he was but it's true, has said he's the only defender to EVER stop him without doing anything cheeky (shirt pulling, nudges etc etc)
Yeah that was awesome, he was a very clean defender for sure.
Oh bloody hell can we stop talking about Ledley? It's making me all sad haha
Do you mean di Santo from Wigan?
And if so, are you just out for the day? Does your caregiver know you have Internet access?
The only club mad enough to sign Demba Ba will be QPR and that's because they have a manager who doesn't give a shit about the clubs future beyond his time there.
Di Santo? Really? He's not even the best striker on lowly Wigan. Kone has earned that title easily. He would rot on our bench.
Edit: According to whoscored.com, here are Di Santo's weaknesses.
- Weaknesses
Aerial Duels
Weak
Finishing Weak
Lack of finishing is exactly what we don't need.
Anyone else think they look a bit alike?
Oh yes, I've always noticed the ostrich's ears are big and sticky-out. But everything else is a stretch.
Realism, facts.
- Demba Ba has allegedly a bum knee that will render him un playable and so insurance wont such him.
- In two years of premiership football this hasnt bothered him at all.
2010/11 - Hoffenheim - 17 Starts (2 sub), 9 Goals, 2 Assists
2010/11 - West Ham - 10 Prem Starts (2), 7 Goals (+1 Cup game)
2011/12 - Newcastle - 32 Prem Starts (2), 16 Goals, 2 Assists (+2 Cup appearances)
2012/13 - Newcastle - 18 Prem Starts (1), 11 Goals (+1 Cup and 3 Senegal games)
IMO Ba has proven himself to be an excellent striker and would offer us significant improvement to our squad. With Defoe and Adebayor Ba will not have such a volume of games to contend with but would be priceless at times when either isnt available.
- Ba is available for £7.5m. Some will feel that is a lot of money to take a chance on.
Here are some similarly (or higher) priced players with have taken that chance on, with insurance, that didnt pay dividends at all.
David Bentley - £17m. We will be lucky to see £2-3m in return, not to mention the wages he cost. Total loss.
Kyle Naughton - £6m. Ill admit he is doing ok, but its a lot for what was a punt on a rookie player
Scott Parker - £5m. 30 years old with a full career of being an injury prone player.
Bassong - £8m. Rokkie defender gave us one decent season then was off, for nothing like £8m I would wager
Dos Santos £4m - Worth every penny...
Hutton £9m - Need I go on?
I fully appreciate £7.5m (release clause, set figure) is a lot of money to gamble, but I believe we have gambled similar sums regularly and without return. We need a striker. Strikers of Ba's quality cost a hell of a lot more (Pavlyuchenko, not as good as Ba, £14m) and I believe Ba would flourish in our team.
Realism, IMO, says take a chance.
Ba makes too much sense to me.
ok! ok!... i surrender for fucks sake!!.. no need to drag up a who's who of failures to make the point that
you've got a hard on for ba!!
didn't i say in my last post i'd love him at spurs!!!!
the realism is he wont pass a medical so we're talking shite about him playing for us.