Michael Owen V Jermain Defoe

[Sparky]

In todays market id say Crouch is easily worth 10 million quid

[dandannieldanok]

117 goals in 355 games and 85 of those goals in 281 league games... is that worth £10m+?

And this scoring record he has for England that people harp on about... well, out of the 16 goals he's scored in 34 matches, 3 of them were against Jamaica and 3 against Andorra and another 1 for each game against Macedonia, Estonia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago... that leaves 6 goals against other bigger teams and even then it's Greece, Uruguay, Hungary, Croatia and Ukraine...

He's OK and certainly not someone you'd ignore completely and he has a decent scoring record but to say he's worth paying £10m for and giving him a ludicrously high salary is just not on.

Compare that scoring record with Capello's favoured Heskey, then you might start taking Crouch more seriously.

I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that Crouch had scored the most headed goals in the Premier League last season?

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[Salieri]

I am the living antithesis of belief, trust and received wisdom.

No, you're not. You're the living antithesis of the pub bore.

You rile most people on here not necessarily always because of the points you are trying to make, but in the manner that you make them. Your condescending demeanour, coupled with the natural assumption that the rest of us on here are your intellectual inferior, makes you nothing more than an irritant.

There are many posters on here who consistently make far better judgements than yourself, and are able to do so without the need to incorporate as many "long words" per post as humanly possible.

You clearly have a degree of intelligence, but adding a dose of humility to your (overinflated) ego would make your ramblings a tad more bearable.