{"id":445678,"date":"2011-06-22T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/22\/newcastle-united-coach-backs-new-signing-demba-ba-to-shine\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:53:00","slug":"newcastle-united-coach-backs-new-signing-demba-ba-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/newcastle-united-coach-backs-new-signing-demba-ba-to-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United coach backs new signing Demba Ba to shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Miles Chambers<\/h3>\n<h4>22 Jun 2011 13:53:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"89.006\">\n<div readability=\"15.3876404494\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL ; Demba Ba, West Ham United v Liverpool \" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/125100\/125190_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL ; Demba Ba, West Ham United v Liverpool<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/senegal\/22082\/demba-ba\">Demba Ba<\/a> has been backed to shine for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/99\/newcastle-united\">Newcastle United<\/a> by the club\u2019s assistant manager John Carver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The striker recently joined on a free transfer from West Ham, who finished bottom of the Premier League last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Carver, who has been assistant manager since January, feels the Senegalese stiriker proved his goalscoring ability at Upton Park and hopes he can bring that form to the North East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Towards the end of the season Demba went on a real scoring run,&#8221; he said to the <em>Sunderland Echo<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He was scoring goals for a struggling team. He got seven goals in 12 appearances. He&#8217;s another great addition to what we have at the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;To score goals for a team that was struggling for its life in the relegation zone is quite an achievement, and we&#8217;re sure he&#8217;ll do well for the club.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to Ba&#8217;s signature, Alan Pardew&#8217;s club have signed Yohan Cabaye and Sylvain Marveaux from French clubs Lille and Rennes respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Carver revealed the Tyneside outfit are far from finished with their spending spree and they are well prepared for further transfer activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The process of identifying targets has been going on for a while, well before I came to the job,&#8221; Carver continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s been going on over a period of time, and obviously gathered pace towards the end of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We are quite ahead of where the club&#8217;s been in the past years. There are things in place, and we&#8217;ve signed three players. The plan&#8217;s working.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/22\/2542998\/newcastle-united-coach-backs-new-signing-demba-ba-to-shine\" title=\"Newcastle United coach backs new signing Demba Ba to shine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle United coach backs new signing Demba Ba to shine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Miles Chambers 22 Jun 2011 13:53:00 EPL ; Demba Ba, West Ham United v Liverpool Related Links Teams Players Demba Ba has been backed to shine for Newcastle United by the club\u2019s assistant manager John Carver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newcastle United coach backs new signing Demba Ba to shine - 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\/22\/newcastle-united-coach-backs-new-signing-demba-ba-to-shine\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Newcastle United coach backs new signing Demba Ba to shine - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Miles Chambers 22 Jun 2011 13:53:00 EPL ; 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