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da pinnacle： In a world where footballers generally have the intellectual capacity of a root vegetable, it’s rare to find a man who has his head screwed on when it comes to transfer dealings. Players often complain about being lured to a club under false pretences, bemoaning an inability to move on when they’re unhappy. Demba Ba is not one of these men; he appears to be a fierce negotiator, who can see beyond his next pay packet.
Few expected the Senegalese front-man to be such a hit in the Premier League, following his arrival at West ham from Bundesliga outfit Hoffenheim, but he well and truly hit the ground running, averaging just over a goal every other game for the East Londoners. Not even club co-owner David Sullivan predicted such an impact following his controversial move to Upton Park, as a result the Hammers allowed Ba to sign a contract with a relegation release clause, a piece of business the player, and his agent, insisted upon on after the club had a wage drop of 50%, in the event of exiting the Premier League, written into the contract. Sullivan told the website www.westhamtillidie.com:
“It just didn’t enter our heads. It didn’t enter anybody’s head that he’d score enough goals that we’d want to give him £40k a week and his old club £15-20k an appearance and we’d still be relegated.
“In reality, that’s exactly what happened. The agent just threw it in at the last minute.
“He said, ‘Obviously if his salary is cut by 50%, you’ve got to let him walk’. We thought, ‘Okay, if we get relegated, do we really want a £40k-a-week striker in the Championship?’
“Well, we would have because he was devastating. If he was with us now and his knee had held up – because remember, he did have a very, very bad knee – I think we’d be 15 points clear, I really do.”
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As a result Ba slipped out of West Ham’s reach, completing his free transfer North to Newcastle, who did not learn from their rivals mistake. Despite strong denials from the Magpies, it is believed that the striker has another clause in his contract allowing for a cut-price this summer. In the event of any other side triggering this agreement, rumoured to be around £7 million, Ba would be free to move upon agreeing personal terms. To make this even worse for the Tyneside club, he would also pick up around half of the transfer fee due another sub-clause written into the deal.
“I’m told he’s got a £7million get-out at Newcastle and he gets half the money over that
“They keep denying it, but I think you’ll see in the summer he will leave Newcastle, or he’ll get a monstrous rise to stay there.
“If they get about £4million, half will go to him, so if they sell him for £7million, they’ll only net about three because they paid his agent £2 million to get him out of here.
“Getting £3million is not bad, but for a player of his quality, it’s not fantastic.” (Mirror)
So, all-in-all Newcastle risk losing their key man this summer and only pocketing around £3 million, which will worry even the most short sited of Geordie supporters.
This puts Ba in a strong negotiating position with his employers, who if they are serious about keeping him and mounting a charge for European football, will have to hand him a significant pay rise.
Ba has been impressive this term, netting 12 goals before departing for the African Cup of Nations in January, then marking his return with another strike in the 2-1 win over Aston Villa. With this kind of form some of the Premier Leagues bigger clubs, including Liverpool and Tottenham are rumoured to be looking at the prolific marksman with a summer transfer in mind.
Newcastle are surely all too aware of this, and will almost certainly enter into negotiations with their star-man in a bid to keep him at the Sports Direct Arena, where he is striking up a good relationship with his fellow countryman Papiss Cisse.
It’s refreshing to see a player with the foresight to negotiate a deal which will benefit him in the long run, refusing to be doped by the, often, empty promises of club officials. Demba Ba looks to be just as at home in the board room as he does in the penalty area, let that be a warning to any clubs chasing him during the next transfer window.
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