flanimal Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Clemence is under contract, they can't sell him 'cause he's injured and I suppose they're giving him a chance - he is the captain after all. If his contract expired this week, he'd he tossed out.
Bryn Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Reuban Reid, going back to that, is fooking average. He wouldn't be an awful addition, I mean he is a striker and we need one, but he's nothing special.
flanimal Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Reuban Reid, going back to that, is fooking average. He wouldn't be an awful addition, I mean he is a striker and we need one, but he's nothing special. He has something, I'd regard him as good backup and one to develop, but if Nigel Pearson has one striker in focus it shouldn't be him, there has to be better players out there, but I'd buy Reid for £200,000. He's the kind of player we need, but calling him "an awesome signing" like I did was a little generous!
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 We were the first to get promoted and the last to get quality strikers. PATHETIC! N,P. take note. You are no God, like some supporters seem to think. Promotion within the next three years. HA! HA! HA! 1 ;
Unabomber Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 He has to be drunk? Either that or he's retarded. Or the most likely outcome is that he is a drunk retard.
flanimal Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Judge him when the transfer window is over. Last year when we got relegated, Pearson didn't buy any strikers, Fryatt and Howard did the business and most people said they wouldn't. Nigel Pearson is not a God, but he is the best manager we've had in years.
Salieri Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 N,P. take note. You are no God, like some supporters seem to think. We can only judge the guy on what he has done up to press. And it's hard for anyone to argue that he hasn't done a very good job thus far.
Matt Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 We can only judge the guy on what he has done up to press. And it's hard for anyone to argue that he hasn't done a very good job thus far. Dangerous Tiger has managed though, saying that Dangerous Tiger would probably be able to argue with his own shadow from how it seems.
Matt Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Dangerous Tiger is probably CovScum. If that's the case i'll drive Dickov to Covscum personally, and Dangerous Tiger can wank over him.
flanimal Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 When Dickov re-joined Leicester, how many years was the contract? Because I personally don't rate him any more, and think he should go to a lower league club. Give him to Cov, forget driving him - I'll pay for a helicopter!
Matt Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 When Dickov re-joined Leicester, how many years was the contract? Because I personally don't rate him any more, and think he should go to a lower league club. Give him to Cov, forget driving him - I'll pay for a helicopter! 2 years, So this is his last year. Thank fook in a years time we'll have waved goodbye to him.
flanimal Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Yeah, be very shocked if he plays more than 6 times for us this season. All of them probably as a sub. Doubt he'll get a single goal.
Joe. Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 I'd have no problems going for Phillips, always a player I've admired. He's obviously no spring chicken at the age of 35 now but one thing is certain, and that's that he'll get you goals. He's got them everywhere he's been, admittedly in the last few years at promoted Championship sides, but he'd be a good signing in our current position with regards to forwards. £750k seems a little hefty for him though, I'd question that part.
CosbehFox Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 We've just got promoted, we've spent £1.2million (or rising to) on one of the best midfielders in the division last year, we've signed a great young prospect from the Big 4, we've signed the captain of an SPL side...Simon Cox is not a "bargain" at £2million. Ched Evans is certainly not a "bargain" at £3million. We haven't sold anyone this summer, yet people expect us to spend millions and millions. Would Sheffield United have been able to sign Ched Evans without selling Naughton and Walker? Would WBA have signed Cox without the parachute money? Would you prefer to be like Coventry, selling off all our best young players and not seeming to do anything about replacing them yet? We have the basis of a good squad for this division, we just need to add another striker or two. That's not the end of the world, it's a pretty bloody good position to be in actually. Perfectly put Fez. Watching us on Saturday, I said to my brother what an advantage it is to have a settled team for one summer. Rather than watching us in a friendly to suss out all these newbies, it was coming back to a settled side who you've began to warm to. Back in March, I said between a group of us that the worst thing we could do is going sign 7 or 8 on top of what team we've built this; looking back it's probably right despite the outcry for a striker. We need a bit of back-up but nothing a couple of loanees couldn't sort out. As for Phillips. You always pay over the odds for strikers. Signing any striker with a transfer fee is a risk. At least Phillips has something kind of record at this level, not something you could say the same for the likes of Cox at 1.5million, Campbell at 2million. Personally, like us to go for Hooper but we'd be looking at a Cox-esque fee.
haraven Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 First of all I applaud Fez's post, and will just add that the price sounds steep, but 1-goal-every-match-Phillips is someone I would like to see finishing his career playing for Leicester City.. he will bag us goals, even tho I would of course have liked to have a younger version of the man. We have a tradition for bringing in old-timers that have done real well for us.
C-man Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Why does everyone think Kevin Phillips guarantees 20 goals a season? I cannot believe how many people think this would be a great signing after all the flak Micky Adams copped for creating a dad's army effect, how fickle do people want to be. I wouldn't say he'd guarantee 20 goals a season, but he'd be useful to bring off the bench when Fryatt or Howard are struggling. He's one of those rare strikers, like Michael Owen, who doesn't need many chances to bag. Then again, you'd have to ask the question whether or not he'd want to come here to sit on the bench for the majority of the season. Can't see him wanting to leave Birmingham if he wasn't going to get any more first team football. At the end of the day, it's all irrelevant because you have to believe it's just the Daily Star talking shit.
CosbehFox Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Well I share a completely opposite view, I would never in a million years choose Phillips over Lita, infact I'd rather keep DJ than get Phillips. Our frontline is badly lacking pace and Phillips is not going to improve that, him and Howard lining up front would be cringeworthy imo. I don't get this pace and big stuff with strikers. If you have strikers with quality, you won't have that problem. Your team and it's tactics adapt to your players. Teams which rely on some old-fashioned cliche are found out on the bigger occasion. If you put plenty of chances on the plate, there's no need for pace. If you don't balls 8 foot in the air, there will be no need for a big-man. I watched Reid and Jackson in the same fixture. Jackson shaded it for me because Gillingham played a decent style of football which he played off. The most impressive player was another forward by the name Jamie Clarke, I know he didn't stay at RovRum.
Ultra Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 First of all I applaud Fez's post, and will just add that the price sounds steep, but 1-goal-every-match-Phillips is someone I would like to see finishing his career playing for Leicester City.. he will bag us goals, even tho I would of course have liked to have a younger version of the man. We have a tradition for bringing in old-timers that have done real well for us. We also have a tradition for bringing in old-timers that have done jack for us.
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 We also have a tradition for bringing in old-timers that have done jack for us. Dublin, Keown, Hignett, Dickov (2nd time), Hayles, N'Gotty, Pressman, the list goes on and on...
Maybes Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Kevin Phillips would be a very good addition to the squad IMO.
breadandcheese Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 Personally, I think the price is too high. £750,000 for one season is too much.
Guest Bilo Posted 26 July 2009 Posted 26 July 2009 We spent millions on "proven" players two seasons ago and STILL went down.If Pearson does have money to spend (which I doubt), I'd rather he invested in a prospect from the lower leagues (like Fryatt, but with more mobility) than yet another ageing has-been. Agree with this. The last thing we want is to return to the status of being an easy meal ticket for has-beens who are hungry for money rather than success. I'd much rather see us plump for a youngster from the lower leagues with potential to grow into a great player, than a journeyman in his mid 30s who has his best years behind him.
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