New player linked - Abdoulaye Ba

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West Ham want Porto defender but face fight with Stoke and QPR

West Ham face stiff competition from Stoke and QPR for Porto defender Abdoulaye Ba.

The young Senegalese stopper was on the Hammers' radar in January but boss Sam Allardyce didn’t follow up on his initial interest.

Now Allardyce is back in the hunt but the Upton Park chief will have to battle Premier League rivals for his signature.

QPR and Stoke are looking to add defensive options to their squads and are also keen on Ba, who impressed on loan at Academica last season and is available for a cut-price £3million.

Sources close to Ba have told talkSPORT that the 21-year-old is keen to move to the Premier League, and is confident of being granted a work permit, having played the last four games for his country.
http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/transfer-rumours/120703/west-ham-want-porto-defender-face-fight-stoke-and-qpr-175744?

 

[video=youtube;O0im6A4uFvI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0im6A4uFvI[/video]

[video=youtube;w1scQmgTOAM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1scQmgTOAM[/video]

 

Sounds promising.

What area of defense does he play?

 

Centre by the look of the YouTube clips. Rarely include footage of blunders though, so who knows. Skins Adel for his first goal in the second set of clips.

 

Hes 6ft 6 so I would hope hes a CB.

 

Seems to read the game well on the clips provided. (Always looking over his shoulder, I like that.) At this rate I hope we a re safe by January or the ACON is gonna hurt us big time....

 

I reckon it's humbug.

 

Yep,and those dreaded words "Work Permit" don't sound promising either!

 

Sign up Demba as well.

If they played with Barton would could have a line-up that included Ba Ba Blacksheep.

 

Nice

 

Quality.

 

Is he Welsh?