{"id":443192,"date":"2011-06-17T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/17\/official-demba-ba-completes-newcastle-united-switch-on-three-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T15:30:00","slug":"official-demba-ba-completes-newcastle-united-switch-on-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/official-demba-ba-completes-newcastle-united-switch-on-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Demba Ba completes Newcastle United switch on three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Sam Bisby<\/h3>\n<h4>17 Jun 2011 16:30:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"73.1176968671\">\n<div readability=\"15.0152284264\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/131600\/131687_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/99\/newcastle-united\">Newcastle United<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/10047\/alan-pardew\">Alan Pardew<\/a> has made his second signing of the summer after the club confirmed the signing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/senegal\/22082\/demba-ba\">Demba Ba<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/374\/west-ham-united\">West Ham<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The striker follows Yohan Cabaye to Tyneside and has signed a three-year-deal at St James\u2019 Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ba made 12 appearances for the Hammers last season, scoring seven goals in the process and has also earned 10 caps for Senegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 26-year-old has had spells with Rouen, Mouscron and Hoffenheim and joins the Magpies as their No. 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His new manager, Pardew, told the club\u2019s official website: \u201cDemba made a great impression with West Ham last season and is a great signing for this club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe has pace, excellent technical ability, is good in the air and, it goes without sayin, has the ability to consistently find the back of the net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMoreover he has the great passion to play for Newcastle United.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/17\/2536435\/official-demba-ba-completes-newcastle-united-switch-on-three\" title=\"Official: Demba Ba completes Newcastle United switch on three-year deal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official: Demba Ba completes Newcastle United switch on three-year deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Sam Bisby 17 Jun 2011 16:30:00 EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United Related Links Teams Players Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has made his second signing of the summer after the club confirmed the signing of Demba Ba from West Ham . The striker follows Yohan Cabaye to Tyneside and has signed a three-year-deal at St James\u2019 Park. Ba made 12 appearances for the Hammers last season, scoring seven goals in the process and has also earned 10 caps for Senegal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Official: Demba Ba completes Newcastle United switch on three-year deal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/official-demba-ba-completes-newcastle-united-switch-on-three-year-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Official: Demba Ba completes Newcastle United switch on three-year deal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Sam Bisby 17 Jun 2011 16:30:00 EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United Related Links Teams Players Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has made his second signing of the summer after the club confirmed the signing of Demba Ba from West Ham . 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