... the North East, with Toon manager Alan Pardew hoping to add Ba to his list of summer transfer targets.
But Ba's £80,000 a week wages was the reason he left Newcastle in the first place, and there isn't a hope in hell he will take a drop.
His agent says he is at Stamford Bridge to stay, and stay he will ... unless another club matches £80,000.
Ba has said many times he would not return to Newcastle.