4everfox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Whatever happens today Leicester please don't punish me by signing Gayle.
thybluefox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Bloody hell - £9m?! Certainly not keen for that price.
Guest MattP Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 After all the names we've been linked with if we end up with Dwight Gayle it would be a huge let down. Not a bad player at times but I'd still see him as fourth choice with what we have.
EnderbyFox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Reported as anywhere from £7-9m.. Ridiculous for a striker that will surely be 4th choice? Couldn't even get in Palaces side over the likes of Chamakh ffs
Alf Bentley Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 My first thought was this being uninspiring. Now I have had time to think about it I reckon he could flourish here for us. Our style of play could well suit him. If we ended up today with Dwight Gayle then I would welcome him and back him in a City shirt. He may even surprise some of you. Our scouts have pulled some absolute gems lets hope if this happens they have found another one. Palace fans say he is a classic 4-4-2 man. In a 4-2-3-1 he is hit and miss. I, too, was underwhelmed at first but on second thought he might fit in well here. That makes sense, Kareem. He's probably a bit small and light to play lone front man in a 4-2-3-1 for a team, like Palace, who play on the break a lot. Plus, he's not likely to get selected to play wide ahead of Bolassie, Zaha or Puncheon. 4-4-2 would suit him much better, I reckon. I knew he'd been at Posh but not much else. Just had a look and his trajectory is very similar to Vardy: Arsenal Youth but released->Stansted (didn't even know they had a team!)->Bishop's Stortford->Dag&Red->Posh->Palace. Looks and sounds like our sort of player and only 26, so still has potential to develop. His career trajectory suggests he has a good attitude, too. I'm sure there are better options, but if they're not available to us, I wouldn't be disappointed to get this bloke - and agree with Babylon that we do need another striker. What if Vardy or Shinji break a leg next week? We'd be kicking ourselves forever if we missed out on Champions League football due to an avoidable lack of strikers in the last few games.
surrifox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 £9 million - surely not - giving palarse that much for this clown would be unbearable
Babylon Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Dwight Gayle has so far proved to be an ordinary PL striker at best. For the £9m quoted we'd be better off keeping our money in our pockets. Either bring in someone better than we have or don't bother at all when there is £9m on the line. I'd rather us bite the bullet and knowingly over pay for Musa than spend £9m on someone who won't improve the first team. We'd probably get Gayle on loan at a push anyway. First and foremost you have absolutely no idea what the cost is. Is there any reason the price has gone up on what Bristol were paying? Much of any fee we paid would be made up of a lot of extras for performance, just as the Bristol bid was. Musa, so you want us to pay £22m+ in cash, with no add ons. Do you know we can afford that? Our original bids were highly likely to have included plenty of add ons. So it might not be a case of adding on a couple of million on top of what we've bid more a case of adding on an extra £8-10m+ in cash. Cash difference on the deals could be £16m!!! £22m Cash for Mussa v £6m cash for Gayle (with some performance ones on top). That's the sums the club will be doing now and deciding what is the less risk averse. Even if you pay that cash for Gayle, he's still an asset and won't lose that much in value if you flogged him in a year. Again, he is better than what we have, because we have no fourth choice striker.
MPH Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Clever move by Top.... " Dad, how do we get them to take to the Gayle deal? There has to be a way" " threaten them with singing Robinho. They'll be celebrating in the streets at getting Gayle instead"
Gerard Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 First and foremost you have absolutely no idea what the cost is. Is there any reason the price has gone up on what Bristol were paying? Much of any fee we paid would be made up of a lot of extras for performance, just as the Bristol bid was. Musa, so you want us to pay £22m+ in cash, with no add ons. Do you know we can afford that? Our original bids were highly likely to have included plenty of add ons. So it might not be a case of adding on a couple of million on top of what we've bid more a case of adding on an extra £8-10m+ in cash. Cash difference on the deals could be £16m!!! £22m Cash for Mussa v £6m cash for Gayle (with some performance ones on top). That's the sums the club will be doing now and deciding what is the less risk averse. Even if you pay that cash for Gayle, he's still an asset and won't lose that much in value if you flogged him in a year. Again, he is better than what we have, because we have no fourth choice striker. I don't know what we can afford or the price of Gayle, I'm in exactly the same boat as you in that respect unless you tell me any different. I can only take at face value what has been reported. If the reports are true I would rather we didn't pay £9m for a player that Bristol City wanted, he's hardly the player to take us to the next level fourth choice striker or not. Given the choice between £9m on Gayle or going into the last 15 games with three strikers I'd rather we went in with three strikers. I'd be happy enough not making another purchase this window if we can't get the player or deal we want but I'd rather knowingly pay over the odds for Musa than buy Gayle for £9m. My first preference would be to do nothing though if that was our choices. 15 games left and playing once a week our squad should be good enough unless we are really unlucky with injuries so quality over quantity please.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Clever move by Top.... " Dad, how do we get them to take to the Gayle deal? There has to be a way" " threaten them with singing Robinho. They'll be celebrating in the streets at getting Gayle instead" Especially for Grey Fox
AyewJoking Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 dont want this guy, offered him a jamaican national team call up on football manager and he turned me down
Babylon Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 I don't know what we can afford or the price of Gayle, I'm in exactly the same boat as you in that respect unless you tell me any different. I can only take at face value what has been reported. If the reports are true I would rather we didn't pay £9m for a player that Bristol City wanted, he's hardly the player to take us to the next level fourth choice striker or not. Given the choice between £9m on Gayle or going into the last 15 games with three strikers I'd rather we went in with three strikers. I'd be happy enough not making another purchase this window if we can't get the player or deal we want but I'd rather knowingly pay over the odds for Musa than buy Gayle for £9m. My first preference would be to do nothing though if that was our choices. 15 games left and playing once a week our squad should be good enough unless we are really unlucky with injuries so quality over quantity please. That's not the current option though is it. The current option (presuming we can't get the others)... is nothing or quantity. If you want to take that risk for about £6m up frong, then that's wonderful... but when there is £30/£40m plus on the line for qualify in the champions league I have no idea why you would. It's not like you lose all your money on the player either, he'd still be an asset you can sell on. It's not the best scenario in the world... but one injury to our strikers and we've go two player for two positions and no option to change it, other than playing people out of position.
MPH Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 dont want this guy, offered him a jamaican national team call up on football manager and he turned me down Did you speak good about him in the media? compliment him a few times? Don't give up! there's still a chance!!
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Reported as anywhere from £7-9m.. Ridiculous for a striker that will surely be 4th choice? Couldn't even get in Palaces side over the likes of Chamakh ffs .7-.9 million I think it means Could be a bargain bless him
Gerard Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 That's not the current option though is it. The current option (presuming we can't get the others)... is nothing or quantity. If you want to take that risk for about £6m up frong, then that's wonderful... but when there is £30/£40m plus on the line for qualify in the champions league I have no idea why you would. It's not like you lose all your money on the player either, he'd still be an asset you can sell on. It's not the best scenario in the world... but one injury to our strikers and we've go two player for two positions and no option to change it, other than playing people out of position. Signing him doesn't guarantee CL football either so it works both ways. I'm never happy when we buy established players who come here to be squad players. Gray & Amartey are fine as they're developing but players who are nearer 30 than 20 is a no from me unless they're expected to make the first XI. I just think we are in pole position to get the best loans available so I'd rather we loaned someone like Remy than buy Gayle for the quoted fee.
Babylon Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Signing him doesn't guarantee CL football either so it works both ways. Nobody said it does. But if you buy him, you have the option to get rid. If you don't buy him, then we have no options this season and have to struggle on if an injury occurs. I'm never happy when we buy established players who come here to be squad players. Gray & Amartey are fine as they're developing but players who are nearer 30 than 20 is a no from me unless they're expected to make the first XI. The lad has not long ago turned 25. He's not exactly over the hill, there is plenty of room in there for improvement. I just think we are in pole position to get the best loans available so I'd rather we loaned someone like Remy than buy Gayle for the quoted fee. I'm sure we'd all love that, but we're presuming in this scenario that he's the best available to us, that we can feasibly get done in the time left.
thybluefox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 I just think we are in pole position to get the best loans available so I'd rather we loaned someone like Remy than buy Gayle for the quoted fee. You'd think, but given how hard we seem to have found it to secure a striker, I'd have to disagree there. I think the realisation should be setting in that being top of the league doesn't make us as an attractive proposition as we'd like to think.
STUHILL Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 I would prefer to have him than no striker. This is definitely a plan D or E type thing though. I can't believe he was at the top of our list. I actually think he is pretty good but it's a major concern as to why he couldn't get into a Palace side struggling for goals. Lets just hope Vardy stays fit!
Babylon Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 I would prefer to have him than no striker. This is definitely a plan D or E type thing though. I can't believe he was at the top of our list. I actually think he is pretty good but it's a major concern as to why he couldn't get into a Palace side struggling for goals. Lets just hope Vardy stays fit! Formation can make a huge difference as we've seen, or what a player is being asked to do. Does he have the skill set to play a lone striker role, it would appear not. But you put Vardy up there on his own isolated and he'd struggle as well, if he's being asked to hold up the ball and bring others into it. I would say we've identified that we need some more pace up front, in case Vardy gets inured.
STUHILL Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Formation can make a huge difference as we've seen, or what a player is being asked to do. Does he have the skill set to play a lone striker role, it would appear not. But you put Vardy up there on his own isolated and he'd struggle as well, if he's being asked to hold up the ball and bring others into it. I would say we've identified that we need some more pace up front, in case Vardy gets inured. That's the one thing that gives me hope with this signing. I think Walsh and his team would have put a lot of thought into this one and looked at the way he plays/stats etc and hopefully seen he would suit our style and add something. I have seen him play and usually been pretty impressed if I'm honest. If we were mid-table, I would be happy with this. I think being top and having a chance of something incredible, makes my expectations sky high. I have a hunch we will end up with this guy as don't think Musa will get done this late and Remy seems less and less likely..
Grey Fox Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 Which one of you edited his Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Gayle "Dwight Devon Boyd Gayle (born 17 October 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays for Leicester City as an apparent striker."
ramboacdc Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 http://the72.co.uk/46868/championship-clubs-to-miss-out-on-striker-as-leicester-and-swansea-battle/? us and swansea now battling for it.
ramboacdc Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 i ****ing love deadline day Gayle on the rails? Swansea City Posted at15:26 Right... our spies (you!) have spotted Dwight Gayle on a Swansea-bound train. We've had two potential sightings. The third spotter needs to send in a picture. Tell Dwight that Marc asked. He won't mind*... * But he also won't know who Marc is! Share Share this post on Twitter Facebook Read more about these links.
STUHILL Posted 1 February 2016 Posted 1 February 2016 He is described as an 'energetic, hardworking, pacey striker' Sounds familiar He probably isn't better than what we have in terms of Ulloa and Okazaki but he's probably on par and at 25 might get better. Clutching at straws here guys, trying to justify this...
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