[Archived] Summer Transfer Topic

[John]

Suppose with our £2.5 million, we should be going for the best youngsters in Europe........we have got a few young players in midfield, someone experienced would be good for them IMO.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Blackburn are among a clutch of Premier League clubs willing to talk to Brazil midfielder Gilberto Silva who is ready to quit Panathinaikos and return to England.

Another creative midfielder to add with the rest of them

[MarkBRFC71]

You are way off with this post. No we are not the most creative team and yess we need a playmaker. We did however create quite a few chances last year that were spurned, yes a lot off them were from set pieces but thats the way Sam plays, get used to it. At the moment we are weaker up front than we were last year. A striker is absolutley the number one priorty which is why quite rightly no other signings are going to happen till we sign one.

Problem is, strikers who can play effectively up front on their own and score from the 1 or 2 half-decent chances a game we create, have names like Villa, Torres, Drogba and cost £20m+.

We have a striker who can score - Niko. We need someone to create chances - that should be the priority. We can always loan in a young striker as back up again. Guti or someone of his ilk should take priority over everything else.

[Amo]

Please, Sam. Stop trying to sign these ageing midfielders who'll give us one decent season tops before we have to cover the gaping hole in the wage budget. Hughes had the best model - signings players like Samba, Warnock, Bentley, McCarthy, Santa Cruz. Players of varying ages who had lost their way and had potential for resale value.

[Exiled in Toronto]

I can't see that a budget of 2.5m is going to land us a striker clearly superior to Roberts or Nico, both of who would sell for at least that much so, realistically, it's going to get us a third striker, which we do need. But I also can't see that one third-choice striker is going to make much difference to our season compared to any other 3rd choice, so why not take a punt on a youngster from a 2nd tier league and spend at least some of the money on midfield?

[des]

if we have only 2.5 million then we are in a deep hole. We will not get a good forward for that.

[brian_gallagher85]

Just as long as we don't sign any England Internationals...

[Mr. E]

Problem is, strikers who can play effectively up front on their own and score from the 1 or 2 half-decent chances a game we create, have names like Villa, Torres, Drogba and cost £20m+.

We have a striker who can score - Niko. We need someone to create chances - that should be the priority. We can always loan in a young striker as back up again. Guti or someone of his ilk should take priority over everything else.

My point as well.

[sparkspakespoke]

Problem is, strikers who can play effectively up front on their own and score from the 1 or 2 half-decent chances a game we create, have names like Villa, Torres, Drogba and cost £20m+.

We have a striker who can score - Niko. We need someone to create chances - that should be the priority. We can always loan in a young striker as back up again. Guti or someone of his ilk should take priority over everything else.

2 league goals last year!?! Thats what you're pinning your hopes on? Yikes! Glad your not our manager. Striker is our first priority and Sam has said this.

[Mr. E]

2 league goals last year!?! Thats what you're pinning your hopes on? Yikes! Glad your not our manager. Striker is our first priority and Sam has said this.

It's his first season in English football. He's 21. He's being played in a position where he gets almost no help at all. Despite that he was easily our most dangerous striker last season and was very unlucky with the post. By all indications, his abilities will get better, his luck will get better, and if we start giving him better service he will undoubtedly score more goals. I don't see what's unreasonable about that.

Relying on MGP, Diouf and co. to get us through another season, however, is another matter.

[67splitscreen]

With regard to Sam's latest statement if true, Guti is there if we want him bad enough, Sam putting pressure on the board just has he did with Salgado IMO, why else would he go public on it, Probably the same with Klose.

I get the feeling Sam is saying either back me and I'll give you another couple of places up the league or "I've taken the club as far as I can"

[den]

It's his first season in English football. He's 21.

He's 22 and will be 23 during next season. He would be have been in his last year in the youth team 4 years ago and he scored 2 Pl goals last season. These are facts mr E.

Next season is a big season for him.

[Mr. E]

He's 22 and will be 23 during next season. He would be have been in his last year in the youth team 4 years ago and he scored 2 Pl goals last season. These are facts mr E.

Next season is a big season for him.

Ok. He's not 21 he's 22. That changes everything?

[beerwins]

A striker that could score 15-20 goals a year from the chances we create would cost at least 10-20 mill, concentrate on the reason why our striker has so little chances to score and employ the right people for the job and maybe we might save even more money.

Build up the strikers confidence and buy a creative link from the midfield to attack and give our strikers chance, for the money we have to spend it wont buy bugger all on the goalscoring front, but it may well fund Guti who in all fairness could be a huge prem flop but has to be better than watching Benajni or Beattie flounder around chasing bugger all.

There has to be a striker out there that is willing to come on loan, for the time and effort we did trying to bring in Di-Santo in im sure we wouldnt have to work so hard to find one with something to prove and a willingness to learn.

[67splitscreen]

A striker that could score 15-20 goals a year from the chances we create would cost at least 10-20 mill, concentrate on the reason why our striker has so little chances to score and employ the right people for the job and maybe we might save even more money.

Build up the strikers confidence and buy a creative link from the midfield to attack and give our strikers chance, for the money we have to spend it wont buy bugger all on the goalscoring front, but it may well fund Guti who in all fairness could be a huge prem flop but has to be better than watching Benajni or Beattie flounder around chasing bugger all.

There has to be a striker out there that is willing to come on loan, for the time and effort we did trying to bring in Di-Santo in im sure we wouldnt have to work so hard to find one with something to prove and a willingness to learn.

Raul's future is still unsure and one step nearer what Shah wants, (even a bigger )

[sparkspakespoke]

It's his first season in English football. He's 21. He's being played in a position where he gets almost no help at all. Despite that he was easily our most dangerous striker last season and was very unlucky with the post. By all indications, his abilities will get better, his luck will get better, and if we start giving him better service he will undoubtedly score more goals. I don't see what's unreasonable about that.

Relying on MGP, Diouf and co. to get us through another season, however, is another matter.

Exactly! We have an unproven young player, who can be described, kindly, as having promise or a bit unlucky last season, and Jason Roberts upfront. Oh and Maceo Rigters. Surely you can see why Sam wont be signing anyone till he has brought in another foward??

Even if we are very lucky and Kalininc becomes the player we all hope he will be all it takes is one injury and Roberts is starting evey game for us. We cannot start the season like this! It doesnt matter if Guti creates ten guilt edge chances a game JR will still miss 9 of them! We HAVE to get another foward before any other business is done.

[Blue n White Rover]

Ok. He's not 21 he's 22. That changes everything?

A year is a long time in football.

[bluebruce]

He's 22 and will be 23 during next season. He would be have been in his last year in the youth team 4 years ago and he scored 2 Pl goals last season. These are facts mr E.

Next season is a big season for him.

It's getting tiresome people only ever pointing to his PL goals total, ignoring that just as many were unfairly disallowed, several hit the post, but more importantly- that he in fact scored 7 in all competitions. And if I remember rightly, only one of those wasn't against decent Prem opposition.

[JAL]

If Miroslav Klose is a target, now big Sam is talking quality.

Having seen only a few games in the world cup, thought Suarez of Uraguay would be ideal for Rovers as a striker, hard working, and fast, ideal for big Sams lone striker style.

[ewoodpo]

How much longer will Sam put up with this constantly never having decent money to spend.

If this takeover doesn't happen I can see Sam moving on , hey I wouldn't blame him if he did.

We must be the only club in the PL that have a summer budget of 2.5 million.

[HemelRover]

thought Suarez of Uraguay would be ideal for Rovers as a striker.

He would. But then so would every other player in world football that, like Suarez, would command a transfer fee of 15mil plus.

[neophox]

I said it before! We should try to buy Denni Avdic from Elfsborg! He would be available for around £2m and he's 22 years old and a Peter Crouch like striker. He's 190cm and 80kg. Powerful striker. Has scored 12 goals in 14 games this season in Allsvenskan with Swedish nationality but Bosnian origin. Work permit will be no problem. He can also operate in midfeld.

He's the star player in the u21 Swedish team and score the goals there.

Come on Sam!

Avdic and Kalinic up front would be class.

Factfile:

http://www.elfsborg.se/www/live/special/spelarpresentation.aspx?TreeID=5755&PlayerID=467&ddtids=77l

[den]

It's getting tiresome people only ever pointing to his PL goals total, ignoring that just as many were unfairly disallowed, several hit the post, but more importantly- that he in fact scored 7 in all competitions.

The PL is what everything is built towards. Anything else, usually against weakened opposition is a bonus, so of course people look at the PL first and foremost.

As for the rest of your post, well people say we don't create chances, so the priority is a midfielder?

[47er]

if we have only 2.5 million then we are in a deep hole. We will not get a good forward for that.

Pedantic I know but Williams stated in the LT that we have a transfer kitty of 2.25M! I'm sure its been explained but if we were able to keep the Benni money provided we finished at least the budgeted 13th and we finished 10th, how come there is no placement money to add to the Benni money? What was the point of finishing 10th?

[Lathund]

Pedantic I know but Williams stated in the LT that we have a transfer kitty of 2.25M! I'm sure its been explained but if we were able to keep the Benni money provided we finished at least the budgeted 13th and we finished 10th, how come there is no placement money to add to the Benni money? What was the point of finishing 10th?

JW also said in the same article that the wages for Salgado meant that we had to budget for 11th, not 13th. Tho there should still be money for that one spot.

We actually budgeted to finish 13th but Sam put up a compelling case for Michel Salgado.

This meant we had to re-forecast to 11th.