Chris Wood

[FrankieADZ]

Bid £2 million, get him in along with Akinfenwa then were sorted.

didnt we get linked to him must be a good few years back.....

All I'll say...hes a large fella....but hes got a eye for goal I'll certainly give him that

[surrifox]

bidding war- I dont think so . neither huddersfield or Millwall will go anywhere near that (£2 mill) so unless there is other interest i wouldnt go more than £1.25m tops.

Shouldn't be spending big in january we aren't desparate

[Itsthejoeker]

Bayo! We'd lose money just on having to make him shirts that fit!

Maybe we could give him vests...

[MGLCFC]

bidding war- I dont think so . neither huddersfield or Millwall will go anywhere near that (£2 mill) so unless there is other interest i wouldnt go more than £1.25m tops.

Shouldn't be spending big in january we aren't desparate

Having recieved £8mil for Rhodes, I think £2mil would be well within Huddersfield's reach.

[tylesta]

Having recieved £8mil for Rhodes, I think £2mil would be well within Huddersfield's reach.

they aint recived 8mil yet though installments etc

[kingfox]

Maybe we could give him vests...

Holy foooooooook

[ithuriel]

So it depends on how much we think he is worth and what else is available then.

Would be surprised if we went anywhere near £2,000,000

[AyewJoking]

why do so many players look good at other clubs but go shíte when we sign them? its not as if we get over excited and expect too much is it?

[Babylon]

why do so many players look good at other clubs but go shíte when we sign them?

Like who?

[Guest Col city fan]

Like who?

Danns/Beckford/Mills?

[Babylon]

Danns/Beckford/Mills?

Reading fans told us Mills was a) only good in televised games b) a twat their fans hated c) massively overrated.

Beckford was good in league one, so was Fryatt... we ain't in league one.

Danns won player of the year in a team struggling to stay up... so did Danny Tiatto and he was shit. Danns has done nothing in his career. In fact the previously mentioned player of the year is his career highlight at the age of 30.

Next?

[Guest Col city fan]

Reading fans told us Mills was a) only good in televised games b) a twat their fans hated c) massively overrated.

Beckford was good in league one, so was Fryatt... we ain't in league one.

Danns won player of the year in a team struggling to stay up... so did Danny Tiatto and he was shit. Danns has done nothing in his career. In fact the previously mentioned player of the year is his career highlight at the age of 30.

Next?

Can't agree with this.

You must have a short memory?

The bulk of this forum ( and I would suspect most City fans) were well pleased with all three signings and expected them to be key players for the club.

I remember it well... They were seen by the majority as being the final pieces of Sven's jigsaw.

[Corky]

But not every player has signed for us and been shit have they?

Has Nugent become worse since Portsmouth? Is Morgan less of a player compared to his Forest days?

[Babylon]

Can't agree with this.

You must have a short memory?

The bulk of this forum ( and I would suspect most City fans) were well pleased with all three signings and expected them to be key players for the club.

I remember it well... They were seen by the majority as being the final pieces of Sven's jigsaw.

I must have a short memory?

That is MY opinion on those players, what other people thought of them is up to them. But there is nothing there that isn't true. Do you disagree that Reading fans told us EXACTLY what to expect from Mills. Do you disagree that Danns has done little in his career? Do you disagree that Beckford is only proven at league one level?

Most of this forum believed Wes Morgan was a piece of shite and that Waghorn was a lost cause. So frankly what this forum thinks has little to do with what is actually true.

[indierich06]

Can't agree with this.

You must have a short memory?

The bulk of this forum ( and I would suspect most City fans) were well pleased with all three signings and expected them to be key players for the club.

I remember it well... They were seen by the majority as being the final pieces of Sven's jigsaw.

You're forgetting Col, what a lot of City fans think and what is actually the case are often two different things!

[Guest Col city fan]

I must have a short memory?

That is MY opinion on those players, what other people thought of them is up to them. But there is nothing there that isn't true. Do you disagree that Reading fans told us EXACTLY what to expect from Mills. Do you disagree that Danns has done little in his career? Do you disagree that Beckford is only proven at league one level?

Most of this forum believed Wes Morgan was a piece of shite and that Waghorn was a lost cause. So frankly what this forum thinks has little to do with what is actually true.

So YOU are saying you didn't think these were all going to be good signings for the club?

I'm not sure you said that when we were linked with them?

Or did you?

[Guest Col city fan]

You're forgetting Col, what a lot of City fans think and what is actually the case are often two different things!

I didn't hear or read many mutterings of discontent when we were linked with any of these players mate.

This is rather ridiculous I think..

[Mark_w]

So YOU are saying you didn't think these were all going to be good signings for the club?

I'm not sure you said that when we were linked with them?

Or did you?

Whether he thought they were good signings or not is irrelevant, you couldn't understand why players like that look good at other clubs but do poorly for us and for the three players you've listed he's given good reason. Whether you were excited about us signing them or not, Danns shone at relativley poor sides, Beckford in League One and Mills doesn't put in consistent performances. Just because Leicester fans thought they were brilliant at their previous clubs doesn't mean they were.

[Babylon]

So YOU are saying you didn't think these were all going to be good signings for the club?

I rarely make that kind of judgement until I have seen them play for Leicester City, I would have thought most people knew that by now.

I knew little of Mills, I knew Beckford was good in League one but knew he'd not done much above that, and I knew Danns had a decent season previously but hadn't covered himself in glory.

I was hopeful Sven knew what he was doing... but there were question marks over all of them.

[Guest Col city fan]

Whether he thought they were good signings or not is irrelevant, you couldn't understand why players like that look good at other clubs but do poorly for us and for the three players you've listed he's given good reason. Whether you were excited about us signing them or not, Danns shone at relativley poor sides, Beckford in League One and Mills doesn't put in consistent performances. Just because Leicester fans thought they were brilliant at their previous clubs doesn't mean they were.

Oh with the benefit of hindsight eh?

If you look back through the pre-season threads last year, I'm sure I was one of the only ones to suggest Beckford wouldn't be the star striker nearly everyone expected him to be. Danns and Mills I fully expected to be key players for the club.. A view shared by nearly everybody else at the time. Danns widely thought of as Palace's best player, Mills captain of a good Reading side and their player of the season?

Beckford, a prem striker...

How the tide turns on here cracks me up..

To get back to the thread, the bulk of the forum again suggests that Chris Wood should be 'snapped up'. How do you know if he's that good?

Have you watched him much or know much about him?

[Mark_w]

Oh with the benefit of hindsight eh?

If you look back through the pre-season threads last year, I'm sure I was one of the only ones to suggest Beckford wouldn't be the star striker nearly everyone expected him to be. Danns and Mills I fully expected to be key players for the club.. A view shared by nearly everybody else at the time. Danns widely thought of as Palace's best player, Mills captain of a good Reading side and their player of the season?

Beckford, a prem striker...

How the tide turns on here cracks me up..

I'm not denying that in the slightest. But Babylon has surely just explained why players like Danns (although I don't think he did), Beckford and Mills 'look good at other clubs but turn shite for us', because we think we know more about the players than the fans who have watched them regularly (Mills), or they looked impressive because they were the best of a bad bunch at previous clubs (Danns), or they weren't proven at this level in the first place (Beckford).

[Guest Col city fan]

I'm not denying that in the slightest. But Babylon has surely just explained why players like Danns (although I don't think he did), Beckford and Mills 'look good at other clubs but turn shite for us', because we think we know more about the players than the fans who have watched them regularly (Mills), or they looked impressive because they were the best of a bad bunch at previous clubs (Danns), or they weren't proven at this level in the first place (Beckford).

So your argument is that we shouldn't have signed Beckford (at the time a Prem Striker) because he wasn't proven in the 'Championship'?

And we shouldn't have signed Reading's player of the season because some of their fans said he was crap? (I'm sure most on here were laffin at them and suggesting it was sour grapes)?

Why didn't you raise such concerns at the time?

I'm sorry mate, this is ridiculous.

[Mark_w]

So your argument is that we shouldn't have signed Beckford (at the time a Prem Striker) because he wasn't proven in the 'Championship'?

And we shouldn't have signed Reading's player of the season because some of their fans said he was crap? (I'm sure most on here were laffin at them and suggesting it was sour grapes)?

Why didn't you raise such concerns at the time?

I'm sorry mate, this is ridiculous.

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that perhaps fans think that players have put in better performances for their previous clubs than they actually have and that's why our hopes are raised so it seems like we've turned brilliant players into mediocre footballers. I'm not saying we were wrong to sign Mills, Beckford, Danns because I hadn't seen enough of them to make that judgement when we signed them, but at the same time I'm saying that it's understandable that they didn't perform as well as we expected for the reasons listed.

[surrifox]

they aint recived 8mil yet though installments etc

exactly. They messed us about over a loan fee/ wages share for Beckford so that tells me that whatever they got for Rhodes their chairman is in no hurry to spend any of it

[Guest Col city fan]

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that perhaps fans think that players have put in better performances for their previous clubs than they actually have and that's why our hopes are raised so it seems like we've turned brilliant players into mediocre footballers. I'm not saying we were wrong to sign Mills, Beckford, Danns because I hadn't seen enough of them to make that judgement when we signed them, but at the same time I'm saying that it's understandable that they didn't perform as well as we expected for the reasons listed.

That might be all well and good but all you can do is to go on their reputation AT THE TIME.

Mills was widely considered, before we signed him, a good player. The thought of Beckford signing for City made most cum in their pants. Danns was widely considered to be playing in a team beneath him and could step up into a better class of side.

And that was all bound up in the bulk of the City fans thinking that Sven was a great man to have 'pulled off' such signings (no pun intended ).

I remember it so well...

To now sit back and say 'well maybe they weren't so good after all' is fine. But that wasn't the impression most gave at the time.

All three ARE examples of players who AT THE TIME were felt to be 'good players' by the majority. Then they came to City and, for whatever reasons, weren't so good.

Be honest, there are still many NOW who think Beckford should return... They just aren't saying so..