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Post by dicanio10 on Mar 8, 2011 11:29:39 GMT
After the game Pulis went into the whu dressing room congratulate BA that's a strange thing to do what did he say well done for playing well and scoring again?  ;D www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/football/west-ham/dynamite_demba_is_so_much_more_than_the_new_ilan_for_hammers_1_822347Last season it was Brazilian striker Ilan who grabbed four goals to haul West Ham out of the relegation zone, this time round it is Demba Ba, but the comparisons between the two end right there. While Ilan struggled to prove himself in the Premier League and was ultimately discarded at the end of the campaign, the Senegal international has made a magnificent start to his West Ham career with four goals in just five games. The 25-year-old was at it again on Saturday, scoring the opener in the 3-0 win over Stoke City and he confessed that he is loving every minute in the Premier League. “It is even better than I thought it would be,” said Ba. “I always looked at the Premier league on TV and I knew what I could do if I came here. “I am just working hard to get fitness and to get strength, because it is a lot about strength and I am just going to keep on working and giving my best every Saturday.” It is a lot about strength and Ba seems to have it in abundance. He held off the strong-arm tactic of Marc Wilson to force the ball over the line for his goal. “We are not playing with any fear,” he said. “I think in the first half of the season, I wasn’t there, but they were unlucky I think, and sometimes they lost games they maybe shouldn’t have done. “Now everything is going well for us. We are scoring goals and we know how to keep the leads and win the games. We just have to keep on going and keep on doing it.” Stoke boss Tony Pulis went into the West Ham dressing room after the game on Saturday to congratulate Ba, but it must have been with something of a heavy heart after missing out on the player’s signature.
For Ba though there are no hard feelings. “He was very happy for me,” revealed the striker after the match.
“I came very close to going there, but you just have to move on. Things happen in life and I am not going to worry about not moving to Stoke. I have come here and I am just getting on with it and moving on.”Moving on is something of an understatement. He has rejuvenated the West Ham team alongside Thomas Hitzlsperger and he is convinced that the team will stay in the Premier League. “I know that we can get out of it. I know the ability of the players and I know that we can do even better than we are at the moment,” he insisted. “All the games are important. Last week’s game against Liverpool was important, but I think these kinds of games, like against Stoke are even more vital. “We have to play Tottenham and Chelsea in the next weeks and we will go there with confidence and we will go there to win.” |
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Post by stokemark on Mar 8, 2011 11:35:57 GMT
Mmmmmm
Spidey sense says that TP was desperate for this deal to happen and others prevented it
Would explain a hell of alot
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Post by Jamo on the wing on Mar 8, 2011 11:53:16 GMT
"He held off the strong-arm tactic of Marc Wilson" Did he? If only there had been some "strong-arm" tactics, he might not have scored then! |
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Post by withnall on Mar 8, 2011 11:56:27 GMT
Pulis actually went in to tell Mr. Ba that "Wilko's playing on Sunday, so strap up well lad".
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Post by miltonpotterfan on Mar 8, 2011 12:01:31 GMT
Wish we signed him
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Post by realstokebloke on Mar 8, 2011 12:05:36 GMT
Mmmmmm Spidey sense says that TP was desperate for this deal to happen and others prevented it Would explain a hell of alot
Someone obviously wanted him but TP has also towed the party line elsewhere hasn't he by saying Ba is an injury timebomb?
ANO of those which we'll have to file under "we'll never know" i suspect (like Jamo's non-transfer for e.g.)
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Post by northstokie on Mar 8, 2011 13:10:55 GMT
Just staying pally so he can sign him when the Shammers go down
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Post by realstokebloke on Mar 8, 2011 13:11:54 GMT
Just staying pally so he can sign him when the Shammers go down |
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Post by jen on Mar 8, 2011 13:12:48 GMT
Just staying pally so he can sign him when the Shammers go down Hmm wonder if Tone asked for his "autograph".  |
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Post by Danstoke82 on Mar 8, 2011 13:17:05 GMT
Think Pulis dropped a bollock not signing Ba but im guessing the decision was made already.
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Post by jediorder on Mar 8, 2011 13:18:42 GMT
Something’s not right at the club we all love, the quicker it gets sorted the better for everyone!
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Post by Jamo on the wing on Mar 8, 2011 13:22:11 GMT
Think Pulis dropped a bollock not signing Ba but im guessing the decision was made already. In fairness to Tone he had a raging hard-on for this signing and had done for over two years. It's fair to say he's gutted we didn't get him. |
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Post by dozintheseventees on Mar 8, 2011 13:31:30 GMT
dicanio10: Pulis desperately wanted to sign him mate but even he has had to admit that the results of his medical were just too big a risk to take. We tried to get him on loan but he was always going to go to you after all that had gone on. What I find strange is your manager now saying that WH were always in for him and that Pulis highjacked his bid. That sounds like complete crap since he had all but signed for us. Grant reckons he was the only manager who'd ever heard of him before Stoke stepped in but, given that Pulis has signed several Senegalise players in the past couple of seasons and given that Salif Daio knows every friggin Senegalise player on the planet, it's likely that we were well aware of Ba. Anyway, he looks the part for you lot and we may regret not signing him, but it was understandable at the time.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 8, 2011 13:35:51 GMT
Decent thing to do IMO. Shows he wanted the player and there is no hard feelings because it didn't work out.
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Post by Alvechurch Assassin on Mar 8, 2011 13:37:45 GMT
Tone has never given any credence to a medical (GNW, Fuller, Cresswell etc) and I'm pretty sure he would have been just as untroubled by Ba's. I think the deal was put on hold by someone else at the club, quite possibly Coatesy. This would explain the strange tactics of late. He has fornm here and did exactly the same thing when he fell out with the Icelanders.
All conspiracy of course and totally unfounded.
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Post by dozintheseventees on Mar 8, 2011 13:42:54 GMT
You may be right Alvechurch in that Pulis wouldn't have worried too much about the medical since it's not his money. It's probably right that Coates didn't fancy gambling with £7 Million given the medical evidence, and who can blame him. The three players you mentioned were all inexpensive signings and so no real gamble (or at least worth the minimal gamble).
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Post by lew86 on Mar 8, 2011 13:45:57 GMT
Tapping up for summer.
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Post by Alvechurch Assassin on Mar 8, 2011 13:46:20 GMT
I reckon Fuller was still a gamble though doz, considering we had nothing like the revenue streams we have now.
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Post by Jamo on the wing on Mar 8, 2011 13:48:38 GMT
dicanio10: Pulis desperately wanted to sign him mate but even he has had to admit that the results of his medical were just too big a risk to take. We tried to get him on loan but he was always going to go to you after all that had gone on. What I find strange is your manager now saying that WH were always in for him and that Pulis highjacked his bid. That sounds like complete crap since he had all but signed for us. Grant reckons he was the only manager who'd ever heard of him before Stoke stepped in but, given that Pulis has signed several Senegalise players in the past couple of seasons and given that Salif Daio knows every friggin Senegalise player on the planet, it's likely that we were well aware of Ba. Anyway, he looks the part for you lot and we may regret not signing him, but it was understandable at the time. Rudgie told me that TP had definitely been after him for over two years. |
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Post by realstokebloke on Mar 8, 2011 13:49:30 GMT
I reckon Fuller was still a gamble though doz, considering we had nothing like the revenue streams we have now.
Quite a difference - even for the (rightly) cautious PC, considering TP's less-than sparkling transfer record now. |
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Post by dozintheseventees on Mar 8, 2011 13:54:11 GMT
It was a bit of a gamble at the time Alvechurch but a 'calculated' and modest gamble. The £7 Million quoted for Ba, whilst looking good value in terms of his abilities, was a huge gamble if the medical results were as bad as we're lead to believe.
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Post by realstokebloke on Mar 8, 2011 13:59:36 GMT
It was a bit of a gamble at the time Alvechurch but a 'calculated' and modest gamble. The £7 Million quoted for Ba, whilst looking good value in terms of his abilities, was a huge gamble if the medical results were as bad as we're lead to believe.
If he was that bad, then, fine, we were right & it was too big a risk.
But...he seems more than fine and had played all Hoff's games (i think) up to Dec.
So, what was soooo bad that we found?
That's what i'd like to know (as well as who did the medical).
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Post by Alvechurch Assassin on Mar 8, 2011 14:07:48 GMT
It was a bit of a gamble at the time Alvechurch but a 'calculated' and modest gamble. The £7 Million quoted for Ba, whilst looking good value in terms of his abilities, was a huge gamble if the medical results were as bad as we're lead to believe.
If he was that bad, then, fine, we were right & it was too big a risk.
But...he seems more than fine and had played all Hoff's games (i think) up to Dec.
So, what was soooo bad that we found?
That's what i'd like to know (as well as who did the medical).
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Post by armitagestokie on Mar 8, 2011 14:59:51 GMT
Hope TP is not a coates puppert when it comes to anymore signings, perhaps Coates lost a bit of faith with 'quality' of his other ones.
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Post by potterglen on Mar 8, 2011 20:14:34 GMT
I heard he stuck him a bung. :-)
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 8, 2011 20:52:22 GMT
And we know this happened how?
Oh silly me its in the Illford Recorder that Internationally renowned beacon of truth and impartiality.
Of course it must be true.
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Post by Squeekster on Mar 8, 2011 21:08:22 GMT
It was scar tissue that hadn't healed properly that was the concern as it may tear easily again.
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Post by stokie25 on Mar 8, 2011 21:16:04 GMT
Pulis is causing more disarray than my ageing memory can recall...i say pulis out (first time i've ever posted that)
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Post by swampySCFC on Mar 8, 2011 23:04:03 GMT
Very magnaminous of our Tone. all credit to him
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2011 23:07:45 GMT
One of those Ba is, will score goals and look good, until he gets injured and be out for months and months.
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