Loving this edit made on his wikipedia page, now sadly deleted by the wiki nazis. On the 2nd of September Ben arfa completed his loan move to hull he was forced to because Pardew doesn't know quality or passion when he sees it, thankfully when ben arfa returns Pardew will no longer be at the club because he a dick
David Burns ‏@bbcburnsy 2m Looks like from my vantage point at Hull City's training ground that Hatem Ben Arfa is signing forms now. #hcafc Seems chuffed to be here. Cameras show that Ben Arfa signed forms, gave Brucey a hug and a handshake - and Jim White confirms Ben Arfa is a Hull City player.
Aye, I know he can't play against them, the other way to look at it is he can't play against us. Just getting the plaudits and drawing the reminders will wind Pardew up.
Talented lad. Going to take about 6 months to get him fit. He's not known for high work rate and he's already way overweight.
Alternatively. When Ben Arfa can't play we can instead play- Ramierez, Snodgrass, Aluko, Ince and Brady.
I agree it may take a while, hopefully he puts in some solid graft for the next three months and get close to what he can be!
I have never read as much gumph as I have on here. First some facts. Ben Arfa is the best player we had. He will certainly be the best one you lot have and will have. He was ostracised by halfaclue because Pardew asked his players what went wrong during a game. Ben arfa said his 'direct' approach was to blame, I.e. Hoofball. Pardew took offence and that was that. The fans still shout for him every game. He was not overweight. He trained hard during the summer and bulked up. Muscle weighs more than fat so pardew had him and fined him. Marveaux stuck up for him and was never seen again. Ben Arfa is brilliant. Pardew picked on him for not tracking back because Pardew believes 90% of the game should be spent in your own half making possession stats look good then boot it aimlessly up the pitch for the other 10%. We have won 5 games in 23 since he fell out with Ben arfa. We didn't score in the first two games and only had 4 shots on target against palace at home. Ostracised ben arfa wasn't allowed to train with the first team and has been scoring goals for fun in the reserves. He single handedly has torn arsenal and man Utd apart and received rollickings for not defending. He does track back, he just doesn't want to spend all game in our half. He's fit and has a point to prove that pardew is a mug. You are in for the experience of a lifetime. Nearly forgot, you lot seem to think you will now get top 10. You are daft. You now have Ben Arfa and he will get you into Europe. He really is that good. We have Ajax captain, tonnes of top internationals, golden boy of France in cabella etc, etc etc. The gulf in class between Ben Arfa and them is unreal. He is superb and pardew is the most hated man in Newcastle that I have ever known. We have had some dozy's too. Allardyce, souness, kinnear to name but a few. We would welcome back Allardyce if it meant getting rid of a guy who wasn't good enough to manage sothampton when they were in the first division. This is the same man who preferred Harewood to Tevez at west ham because he said harewood was a better worker and tevez was a luxury player,I.e. Lazy. I know how Leeds fans felt now when Wilkinson sold cantona to manutd for next to nothing because cantona didn't like spending all game in defence, so was hard to handle. Arrrrrrrrrrrr Pardew
6 months lmao. He is probably the fittest player at Hull. He was 2 pound over his club weight which is why he got fined. The extra weight was caused by extra muscle. He scored in the first game the toon let him play in ffs. Completely ran the show. In fact he has only played one game where he didn't score. I'll tell you this much, if Pardew wasn't such a dick and had let him play in the first team this season, we wouldn't be sitting on 2 points.
Thanks for all your considerable efforts in as much to placate our fans on Benni's qualitys & of your insights TBH i think We are sold on him aswell. HBA. At most , my memory serves correctly. having seen him start his career in England Steve Bruce will carry on keeping him a gr8 footballer. Your BIO is good though for feeding on our expectations as fans. Cheers likelylad.
No problem. Just thought Id shed some light on some of the inaccuracies I had been reading. To say we are gutted is the understatement of the decade. There is a good piece on magsnews.com that's worth reading. Wikipedia must have put someone on full time for Pardews profile.
Well that's a wonderful endorsement. Sounds like the Tigers have got one heck of a player. What you have said about Ben Arfa has probably made many City supporters feel really pleased with themselves-me included, thanks.
It really is exciting times because we already know that Livermore and Huddlestone are great players and would play much better around better players. We now have four ridiculously talented players to play with them. Diame has skill and a good shot in him. He will also hassle players, break up play and win back the ball before offloading it to Huddlestone or one of our new creative players. Ben Arfa and Ramierez look very similar players in the sense of incredible pace and skill and very very difficult to get the ball off. They will finally do what we have needed and offer another alternative to running wide and putting in a cross. They will instead torment defences and run at them by trying to get in the box but also looking for the overlap with Elmo and Robertson. And then the icing on the cake is an explosive forward in Hernandez who will also torment defenders no end. It will be nice that we have a striker with pace and play the ball into his feet rather the oooooooofffff. Not to mention that I would rather have our defence than Man Utd's.
likelylad has summed it up very nicely. HBA is probably one of THE best players that has been at our club. Pardew has chucked his toys out of his pram big style on this one for some strange reason and has continued to get our backs up, trying to paper over the cracks with a few signings. I have no doubt that Brucie is a far better man manager than Pardew and will get HBA's head right, and if played in the correct position (floating behind front two) will absolutely deliver the goods. Personally I can't wait to see how he does and I will make a point of tuning into your games just to watch HBA. In all honesty I'd rather watch your team just to see HBA play, than watch the shower of ****e we are serving up so far ! Pardew is not a liked man on Tyneside, and if I had my choice of who should have stayed and who should have gone, I would pick Pardew to go everytime. Good luck for the rest of the season lads.
The prospect of Elmohamady, Livermore, Huddlestone, Diame, Ben Arfa, Ramieriez, Jelavic, Robertson, Chester, Davies, Ince, Dawson and Hernandez playing for us is truly the most exciting prospect in the 100 years of our club.
