[Archived] Potential Summer Transfers (2010)

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Benjani is the sort of player who would win over fans due to his impressive work rate. He's basically the Zimbabwean Paul Dickov. He would fit in well at Blackburn and we would appreciate how hard he works for the team but if we want to make that step up and challenge for a higher position then we really do need a striker who will put the ball into the back of the net. If Big Sam chooses to sign Benjani then it sends out the opposite message to what he's been saying all season. We need a goalscorer!

If we can sign a creative midfielder (i.e. Guti) then I'd like Sam to maybe have a better look at one of the players we've been linked with in the paper who are proven goalscorers in a league which isn't as strong as ours. I.e. Tresor Mputu Mabi, who according to his agent is better than Messi, Xavi & Eto'o.

or...

We can just re-sign Yordi

[Hughesy]

I have a feeling we will regret not going for zigic before the world cup starts. Think Serbia might suprise a few people and his value will increase 2 or 3 fold. The world cup does crazy things for players values.

Exactly what I was saying to a mate last night.

Benjani is the sort of player who would win over fans due to his impressive work rate. He's basically the Zimbabwean Paul Dickov. He would fit in well at Blackburn and we would appreciate how hard he works for the team but if we want to make that step up and challenge for a higher position then we really do need a striker who will put the ball into the back of the net.

Spot on - Benjani isnt a bad player & works his arse off, however he isnt a natural goalscorer - something we need.

Caciedo would be a better option....Or Vela on loan....or Fletcher from the dingles

[gumboots]

Benjani is the sort of player who would win over fans due to his impressive work rate.

We have enough players who work hard. We desperately need an end product. the only reason to employ another hard working non scoring forward would be if Allardyce thugh someone else could stick the ball in the net more often if Benjani did their running for them.

[PAFELL]

It's about finance, it's about availability, it's ab out reality.

Rovers are not a selling club any more according to the chairman. But they are not a buying club either...just an 'acquiring club' by the looks.

Lewandowski was the first priority. Too dear altogether and a 'better' offer came in.

Boselli was watched and is very decent but he is expensive, even with staged payments.

Dindane has been a potential deal for months but there have been snags and doubts.

Piquionne has been an option, but his demands are high and that makes him less of a bargain...and he is getting on a bit.

So that leaves the Benjanis of the world.

If you look elsewhere there are NO strikers moving. A rare and dying breed.

My gut feeling is you will try to land a striker on loan - Di Santo-style - at some stage soon because there are very few out there to be bought who fit the bill.

Be nice if Rovers could get Sturridge (spelling) on loan from Chelsea - he must be fed up hardly playing. If Cardiff fail to be promoted this afternoon Joe Ledley would be a good signing, as well as Guti.

[philipl]

It is going to be a long summer but at some point there will be a round peg striker to fit the round hole in the Rovers' forward line.

MGP is sorted. If Guti is signed, if one or two players move on, then the holding back of moneys for other contingencies won't be needed little by little and the limited spending we have can be focused on the striking position.

Even so, Rovers have also got to be braced for wild card events. Are we really going to go through the summer without a bid for Samba coming in for instance? What happens when the really big name youngsters (Rodwell etc) have or have not moved and eyes turn to the likes of Olsson, Nzonzi and Jones...?

The club has to keep something back to fight with.

Probably we would have landed Lewandowski if the scrap for his signature had been happening on 20 August and not on 20 May- we simply couldn't risk going for bust at this stage.

Talking of going for bust, it seems West Ham are back at it talking ridiculous wages for new signings...

[den]

I have a feeling we will regret not going for zigic before the world cup starts. Think Serbia might suprise a few people and his value will increase 2 or 3 fold. The world cup does crazy things for players values.

Have you watched Zigic, Ricky? He looks pretty much, - well, useless to me. Crouch with no talent I would say.

[PAFELL]

Exactly what I was saying to a mate last night.

Spot on - Benjani isnt a bad player & works his arse off, however he isnt a natural goalscorer - something we need.

Caciedo would be a better option....Or Vela on loan....or Fletcher from the dingles

Benjani is one of those players you want playing for you and not against you. Simular to diouf. But Rovers need somebody to create the chances, though it is my view that towards the end of the season Rovers were creating a lot of chances, but failed to convert them. Since Bennie Macarthy has left to warm WHU bench, the whole Rovers squad appear to have grown in confidence, which is helping in the creating the goal chances.

Do Rovers still have RSQ's brother on their books? If so anybody know how well he is playing? Is he another player who could come through the ranks.

[wandel77]

The only names Nicko comes up with are the same names we have seen for the last year.

I dont think anything gonna happen before after the WC.

The club need a striker who bags +15 goals each season, Beattie, Piquionne, Dindanne, & Benjani are not the solution on that problem.

Get a player who can make space for Kalinic there we have our +15 goal hitter.

[nicko]

The only names Nicko comes up with are the same names we have seen for the last year.

I dont think anything gonna happen before after the WC.

The club need a striker who bags +15 goals each season, Beattie, Piquionne, Dindanne, & Benjani are not the solution on that problem.

Get a player who can make space for Kalinic there we have our +15 goal hitter.

Would this be a good time to point out that I don't draw up the target list...

[Sandiway Blue]

As we could well be heading in to the loan market,i personally would like to see Robbie Keane come to Rovers.I think he would make a good partner for Kalinic and would drag defenders away from him and hopefully bring the best out of Nico.I think one of the main problems for Kalinic last season was the fact he was having to contend with 2 or 3 defenders all the time.

The advantage for us is most defenders would deem Keane the larger threat which hopefully would enable Nico and Rovers to get a great start.

[1864roverite]

I would say buy a player that can create and in Kalinic and/or Roberts you would have a striker scoing 15 goals or more a season.

Strikers need a supply - a point that appears to be missing from any potential signings plot.

ANY striker worth his salt in ANY division will score goalks with a supply line.

[den]

I would say buy a player that can create and in Kalinic and/or Roberts you would have a striker scoing 15 goals or more a season.

Strikers need a supply - a point that appears to be missing from any potential signings plot.

ANY striker worth his salt in ANY division will score goalks with a supply line.

The problem is 1864, that we only have two strikers on the books. We need four strikers ideally, to cover for suspensions/injuries/loss of form. No point paying out money for strikers that aren't going to score goals, so that's where the money has to be spent - IMO of course.

[Bing]

None of the players we have been linked with have the talent or goalscoring record of Kalinic.

We just need more support from the midfield and another creative player adding.

[den]

None of the players we have been linked with have the talent or goalscoring record of Kalinic.

We just need more support from the midfield and another creative player adding.

You would go into the season with two strikers?

[braddock]

You would go into the season with two strikers?

everton have played the last two seasons with barely one

but we aren't everton

[den]

everton have played the last two seasons with barely one

but we aren't everton

Is there a serious point there somewhere Braddock?

[wandel77]

Would this be a good time to point out that I don't draw up the target list...

Nicko i know :-) But a little bit frustrated that´s the only names we are linked with according to your sources. It was not a hit at you in person. Im sorry if it sounded like that.

Mikael :-)

[braddock]

Is there a serious point there somewhere Braddock?

yeah, look deep into it

[bluebruce]

The problem is 1864, that we only have two strikers on the books. We need four strikers ideally, to cover for suspensions/injuries/loss of form. No point paying out money for strikers that aren't going to score goals, so that's where the money has to be spent - IMO of course.

I agree, no point buying strikers that won't score. And those seem to be all we're linked with at present, so I'd honestly rather not bother (I wouldn't mind Dindane primarily for the right of midfield though). But don't forget, we only play one up front unless Sam has a formation revolution in mind. So I wouldn't say we need four strikers- I'd feel comfortable with three. No point paying out for more strikers than we need either (especially crap ones). If we can't highlight a decent striker to buy, I say bring someone on loan for now. If we get serious injury problems, we do have quite a lot of emergency strikers (Diouf, Hoilett, Samba, Pedersen have all played there for us or other teams).

[andyroversmad]

Benjani is @#/? !

Complete waste of wages.

[Ozz]

You should be posting that on a Man City forum really.

[nicko]

Nicko i know :-) But a little bit frustrated that´s the only names we are linked with according to your sources. It was not a hit at you in person. Im sorry if it sounded like that.

Mikael :-)

Many of the named WILL keepcoming round because there is obvious interest in them - sometimes going back a year or more.

Managers see something in a player that they think they can work on and improve.

I am sure there would have been total despair at Bolton when Sam signed Kevin Davies...he was on the way out of the game at the time...how did that work out?

[magicalmortensleftpeg]

I love how as soon as we're linked with Benjani, Sam gets abuse for lacking ambition whilst at the same time we're still hot on the trail for Guti.

If we get Guti then i wont give a damn about whether Benjani arrives. Id probably take Benjani over Roberts personally.

[JAL]

Dont see money being an issue for Rovers, the right money should go on the right player rather than scraping the barrel in the donkeys are us market trying to turn thats sows ear in to a silk purse.

Maybe a big weakness of big Sams is being a former centre half, is, identifying a good striker. At Bolton I can only recall Nicolas Anelka as anyone of top quality at Bolton, the rest were avarge at best including Kevin pudding Davies.

[Amo]

And to think, I was quietly confident about this summer! The omens are beginning to look grim. We trailed the Polish hotshot before welching out of it, we can't even afford Dindane or Piquionne, the Guti story has gone quiet, signed Pedersen up for life, and now we're back to the same tired names of six months ago. Holy cow...

What I really don't understand re: our finances, is that the promoted teams drool over the massive windfall from the Premier League, and yet a consistent side such as ourselves, finishing in the top 10, haven't got two pennies to rub together. If our wage budget is sucking it dry, then it's high time we looked at our pay structure. That means no juicy bonuses for the likes of Pedersen and Andrews.