[Archived] Kevin Davies - The Second Coming...?

[andyman]

to be honest i would rather we signed noone than kevin davies, at least wait till a decent striker is available, maybe a loan bid for jo?

[nicko]

Bah, I was working in between the messageboard - honest guv...

Ok, come on, give us a clue Nicko, you're club manager/advisor, you have say 6-7m to spend on a striker, who would you enquire about?

I would take Di Santo on loan and Kevin Davies if I could get him.

Honest.

ON SOME OF THE MAN CITY STRIKERS...JO IS A WASTE OF TIME, BOJINOV NOT FIT, CAICEDO WOULD BE OK, VASSELL IS PAST IT.

[jannerman]

I would take Di Santo on loan and Kevin Davies if I could get him.

Honest.

What's the different per finishing spot? 500k isn't it? If Davies and Di Santo could get Rovers into the top ten would that mean the club would rake some well-needed cash to reinvest in the squad.

Or are we all missing the point here? Is Sam working more on the supply side of things than the strikers? Do we improve the supply and get solid players in up front to take a percentage of the (additional) chances?

All this talk of resale, if we can get up a few places by the end of next season maybe we can cast the net again?

[Kelbo]

I would take Di Santo on loan and Kevin Davies if I could get him.

Honest.

With whatis available at the right money, I would tend to agree,I would also look at morientes, similar type of game to Roque!!

Trouble is, would he be up for it, these Spanish lads towards the end of their careers tend to take a meal ticket but he is on a free!!

[john-rover]

signing davies would be OK (at most) if he had a palyer like ankela, like he did at bolton to play with him, so i think signing davies still means that we would need to sign another striker who could score goals!

[nicko]

With whatis available at the right money, I would tend to agree,I would also look at morientes, similar type of game to Roque!!

Trouble is, would he be up for it, these Spanish lads towards the end of their careers tend to take a meal ticket but he is on a free!!

Morientes looked a bit slow in his time at Liverpool and that was a good few years ago.

The choices AFTER Davies are frightening...the unknown, the untried.

[OJRovers]

maybe davies would gain us a league place or two but recently rovers have survived by taking a gamble on unproven players such as bentley, McCarthy, bellamy and Roque then making big profits which benefit the club long term.

There wouldn't be many premier league clubs who would pay the sort of money Bolton will want and I can't see rovers doing it given our reluctance to spend big in recent years

[nicko]

maybe davies would gain us a league place or two but recently rovers have survived by taking a gamble on unproven players such as bentley, McCarthy, bellamy and Roque then making big profits which benefit the club long term.

There wouldn't be many premier league clubs who would pay the sort of money Bolton will want and I can't see rovers doing it given our reluctance to spend big in recent years

Striker-wise, Bellamy was well-known and established, McCarthy was the same and Roque was cheap because of his injuries.

There is NO-ONE around like that just now, with pedigree and experience.

Your club has been looking. Every other club of a similar size has been looking.

Tell me a striker in the £5 million range who has moved - or could move - who ticks the boxes.

They are just not there.

[john-rover]

Morientes looked a bit slow in his time at Liverpool and that was a good few years ago.

The choices AFTER Davies are frightening...the unknown, the untried.

atleast the unknown bring some excitement in to the start of the season

[nicko]

atleast the unknown bring some excitement in to the start of the season

Somebody tried that last year...didn't go so well.

[j166429]

Morientes looked a bit slow in his time at Liverpool and that was a good few years ago.

The choices AFTER Davies are frightening...the unknown, the untried.

To be honest I find the prospect of Davies coming back a bit frightening!! We know him and we tried him... It didn't work!! I know a fair amount of water has passed under the bridge since Woy Hodgson signed him, but I just can't get how bad he was out of my head. Plus £5 million for a 32 year old seems very steep.

[tony gale's mic]

Striker-wise, Bellamy was well-known and established, McCarthy was the same and Roque was cheap because of his injuries.

There is NO-ONE around like that just now, with pedigree and experience.

Your club has been looking. Every other club of a similar size has been looking.

Tell me a striker in the £5 million range who has moved - or could move - who ticks the boxes.

They are just not there.

Then keep that money and spend it on the centre midfield spot which needs spending at least as much. After all if Di Santo comes through that'll replace Derbs which is one more striking option than we had in the second half of last season, where for more than half a season we produced comfortable mid table form.

[john-rover]

stefan kiessling, from levekusen, mot sure how much would cost, but only 24, and has his own website so must be good! lol

[nicko]

stefan kiessling, from levekusen, mot sure how much would cost, but only 24, and has his own website so must be good! lol

I like him a lot from his time with the German under-21s, but have not followed his career for two years or so. Does he play every week?

[daren]

What is the story with Pavulychenko? While he didn't have a great time at Spurs, that place is nearly as bad as Newcastle for ruining players. If they were trying to move him on and the fee wasn't outrageous, I'd like to see us give him a try.

[jim mk2]

Loads of stuff and nonsense on here.

If he comes Davies should be afforded a very warm welcome back to Ewood.

[john-rover]

third top goals scorer in last years uefa cup, and he satrted 39 games from leverkusen last season so yeh he does.

[Kelbo]

third top goals scorer in last years uefa cup, and he satrted 39 games from leverkusen last season so yeh he does.

You have a chance with the German lads, they have a bit of steel to their game and the climate being similar to ours helps too!!

[67splitscreen]

third top goals scorer in last years uefa cup, and he satrted 39 games from leverkusen last season so yeh he does.

His goal ratio is not great but then that does not give the whole picture.

[beerwins]

I would rather be looking for players of this calibre Gladkyy or seleznov both big and strong and could adapt very well.

Yes there untried but im only a average joe not a scout or a manager, if we have to buy proven and tried players why the hell do teams employ scouts? so they can tell us who's good when we already know.

[tony gale's mic]

I'd rather have someone unproven than someone who is only going to be good for a season, two if we're very lucky and with no resale value.

[Stonesrick]

When Kevin Davies was here before he was poor. Some people say that he had been suffering from Glandular fever which may have impacted on his energy levels.

I have been one of those who booed him every time he played against the Rovers since then...but you know what..he really cheesed my off big style and do you know why?

Because every time he plays for Bolton against us he was a real handful, causing our defenders lots of problems and scoring goals.

I think I've worked it after all this time and that is putting aside all my prejudices..

I wouldn't really mind signing him.

[Amo]

I'd rather have someone unproven than someone who is only going to be good for a season, two if we're very lucky and with no resale value.

Yup. Despite what Nicko says, £5m+ is well over the odds. And if that really is the only option, then Sam better hire some new scouts.

[BPF]

If I read this two weeks ago I would have thought that it was the biggest wind up ever. Not including Grabbi coming back of course. But Nicko does make some extremely valid points. I still can't see it though. It just seems to 'Dream Teamish' (Sky One that is) to be real. So with that in mind if he does indeed sign then I shall have his name on the back of my new shirt, something I regretted deeply the first time around but I promise to do it again. He was the last name I ever got on a shirt actually.

[brightonrover]

'Glandular Fever'?!?

He had a glandular problem, one that made him a big fat lazy chozzer.