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Ba and Erdinç – next season’s Toon strike force?

June 14th, 2011 | 30 Comments |

Alan Pardew confirms interest in Ba and Erdinç.
Pardew confirms interest in both
Could Demba Ba and Mevlüt Erdinç be Newcastle United’s first choice strike force next season?

As previously speculated, it does indeed seem that Alan Pardew has considerable interest in Mevlüt Erdinç.

Speaking to The Journal, Pardew said:

“Erdinç has always been on our radar. He’s a very good player and that is all I will say at the moment.

“We had a bit of a disappointment with Kevin Gameiro as he has decided to go elsewhere. We made a fantastic offer to the club and to him but these things happen.

“We tried very hard on that one, but we always knew there would be setbacks along the way and we have always had other people in mind, deals we have been trying to keep to ourselves for obvious reasons.

“We are working extremely hard to make those deals happen and I’m pretty happy with how things have gone so far. We should have another signing finished in the next few days, and we will able to confirm that one as well.” (more…)