The striker may have got a rough reception from the home crowd - and scored a hat-trick to rub their noses in it - but Pulis had no issues with the player.
(Pulis is pictured right - smelling for bullshit)
Tony Pulis: "We really fancied Demba for a while but people have to remember we were paying £9million for him with his wages and everything else.
"The medical people at this club are fantastic and they didn't think his knee was a risk we could take at that time.
"Taking him on a free is a different option and he has certainly done well at West Ham and at Newcastle.
"He has no problems from me.
"The two goals they scored they are not goals that have cut us apart and you have to hold your hand up and say it is really good play.
"They are two poor goals for us. The first one is offside - when the keeper kicks it Leon Best is actually offside and comes back and wins it but we should have done better after that.
"The second goal we should have dealt with better as it was two basic balls which went into the box and our defending was very poor.
"We gave them a leg up with a 2-0 start and it is always going to be uphill.
"It wasn't our night tonight it was Newcastle's and fair play to them."
Source: FOOTYMAD
