Some details on Ba contract/transfer

Telegraph have come out with a few details of Ba's contract and when he signed. Cant believe everything you read obviously. But I have to say this 'release clause' malarkey has me a bit worried he's going to be gone for peanuts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/9003471/Manchester-United-and-Tottenham-Hotspur-lead-chase-for-Newcastle-Uniteds-in-form-striker-Demba-Ba.html?

Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are among the clubs believed to be interested in activating the release clause in the contract of Newcastle United’s in-form striker Demba Ba.

It is understood that both clubs are aware of the existence of the clause — Spurs manager Harry Redknapp has already spoken about it publicly — but, crucially, Ba has told Newcastle he will at least see out this season before deciding his future.
No offer has yet been made for Ba who is with the Senegal squad for the forthcoming Africa Cup of Nations although the 26 year-old is aware of the interest. The clause is thought to be £7 million although that is unconfirmed.

Newcastle might attempt to renegotiate the terms of the deal Ba agreed with them last summer after he activated the release clause upon relegation with West Ham United, who he only joined last January from German club Hoffenheim.
There are suggestions that if Ba were to leave for £7 million his contract stipulates that he would receive a large proportion of that fee — thought to be around £2.5 million — leaving Newcastle with £4.5 million for the player who signed on a free transfer but who has been this season’s Premier League sensation, scoring 15 goals.
Newcastle are refusing to comment on whether or not there is a release clause in BA’s contract and what its terms might be but Telegraph Sport understands that it is lower than the £10 million which was claimed over the weekend.

Redknapp has also claimed that the figure is lower. Newcastle sources have suggested that Ba can only leave if a club in the Champions League comes in for him but this has been questioned by some of the clubs who are considering making a move.
Ba signed a three-year deal on Tyneside and is believed to earn a basic £35,000 a week plus £20,000 per first-team appearance. The terms of the deal reflect the player’s medical history and his well-documented knee problem, which scuppered a move to Stoke City before he joined West Ham.
Ba failed his medical at Stoke — with Tony Pulis famously describing the striker’s knee as a “ticking time-bomb” — and it is highly likely that he did not undergo a medical at Newcastle which helps explain the complicated nature of his contract.
However, despite his fitness concerns he has full mobility and has been available for the clubs he has played for without problems.
It is also believed that although Ba joined on a free transfer his agents were paid around £2 million in fees by Newcastle.
Ba has told the club he will stay for now and the most likely scenario is for Newcastle to offer him a pay rise in return for the removal of the release clause which might enable them to keep the player at the Sports Direct Arena for longer.

Ba scored what Sir Alex Ferguson described as a “magnificent” opening goal in Newcastle’s stunning 3-0 victory over Manchester United last week.
Indeed few will argue with the Twitter message posted by Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere in the wake of that game. “Demba Ba best signing of the season!” he wrote and Ba now has 22 goals in 27 starts in the Premier League for West Ham and Newcastle.
Last week Ba was named the league’s player of the month and United are now one of the club’s on his trail although Spurs are pushing harder for a deal, especially if they can offload Roman Pavlyuchenko.

Over the weekend Ba gave an interview to the French radio station RMC in which he said it was possible he would join Paris St Germain in the summer.
“I have always supported PSG and it’s an attractive club,” he said. “But it will be difficult to do that in January. I’m in Newcastle and the fans like me. The transfer market will be closed when I return from the Africa Cup of Nations so I won’t focus on it.”

 

7 mil with that knee though, can't see many people willing to do that.

 

I can. I think Smudger said he hasn't missed a game because of injury in two years or something?

 

Whatever will be will be, he will be here for the season I'm sure and if he does leave in the summer then he will be replaced.

 

At least we're likely to have him until the end of the season! With Ba fit and scoring goals we can realistically hope for Europe and thus keeping him. If he does have to leave i'd rather he went to PSG than an English club.

The thought of Ba and Gameiro up front is scary!

 

Now will people leave this the **** alone?

 

Hope so. Sick of hearing about it

 

I can't see him going in this Window. We were the only team that took a risk on him when other teams didn't want him anywhere near them. And hopefully he will sign a contract soon.



Here's hoping

 

He's been wearing something over his knee for the past 2 games now just so he can play. Something is obviously wrong there.

 

can we merge all these threads on the clause as well getting beyond the joke could have added this to the last thread

 

I hate this month. Can't wait for February 1st

 

Their has to be a unlimited Strawberry Syrup in the contract!

 

I know! And we almost had it....

 

I call bullshit.

 

We still have 22 long days left to hear about this, unfortunately.

 

If we stay up and around the 7th spot, and we offer Ba basically the best contract we can offer at the highest wage we can offer (he deserves it) then MAYBE he would stay longer than the summer. I hope so. After all, if we're up there battling with Liverpool, why would he hop over to them when we're on near-equal terms in the table? I know there are other teams of course who can offer him CL football, but still.

 

My Liverpool mates are convinced that he will sign for them, there so boring and have nothing else to talk about, one is that convinced he has bought a Senegal shirt and plans to have BA on his shirt to celebrate their new signing. The sooner this transfer window ends the better for all these stories. Hopefully Demba will sign a new contract and end of these talks anyway.

 

Honestly i think a lot of bullshit is being thrown around to "ignite" the transfer window.

Ba taking 2.5million fee off a release clause???? no fuking way ashley would put such a clause in a contract.. logically, a player getting paid money for leaving? fair enough someone who doesn't play and is in dispute with a club but a pre written agreement that he can leave for set amount AND take 1/4 of the fee.

thats plain lunacy, the man is a self made billionaire thats like buying a shirt from sports direct and him going seeing as we are selling you this shirt here have a tenner.

 

Why would he wanna go there and get racially abused everyday