Frazier Campbell

[patrickvalery]

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/sunderland-afc/safc-news/2012/08/05/79310-31552013/

Worth a thread of its own? Probably not but what the hell.

[Hekla]

Hell yes please!

[chaddyrovers]

Yes please.

would be a good signing. has pace and would add something to our attack that we haven't got.

I expect he is the option if Rhodes deal doesn't come off

[Mafioso]

To be honest I'd rather we went for Campbell for 2m and spent the rest reinforcing the squad, were we need it most, rather than spending triple the ammount on Rhodes alone.

[Rovers_Dan]

Missed the bulk of the last 2 seasons through injury.

Leon Best MK 2

[Hekla]

Missed the bulk of the last 2 seasons through injury.

Leon Best MK 2

Better than Best.

[Baz]

No chance this will happen. He's Sunderlands only senior striker.

[Speedie Dived]

Do people actually pay attention to what happens on the pitch? Campbell was the single worst player that played on Ewood last year and he had some right competition for that title from our boys. Awful

[scotty_beam_me_up]

O'neil is in for Olson and N'zonzi so maybe part of a swap deal. Campbell and Vaughen for N'zonzi would be great.

[T.J.Newton]

Wouldn't really make sense for Campbell to be next target if Rhodes doesn't join as their completely different types of player!(physically and technically), it would just yet again show that Kean(and maybe Shebby) has no plan or idea of the formation and style he wants the team to be, he just picks names out of a hat until 1 signs.

[Ossydave]

Wouldn't really make sense for Campbell to be next target if Rhodes doesn't join as their completely different types of player!(physically and technically), it would just yet again show that Kean(and maybe Shebby) has no plan or idea of the formation and style he wants the team to be, he just picks names out of a hat until 1 signs.

The story is in the Sun, I think its more likely to be them picking names out of a hat....

[T.J.Newton]

The story is in the Sun, I think its more likely to be them picking names out of a hat....

possibly, but my point still stands.

[roverandout]

speedie, so you are judging a guy on one game? if we did that to every player who has a stinker then im sure most players wouldn't cut it, im sure if the likes of zidane or ronaldo had been playing poorly against rovers, you would have said exactly the same thing?

[Jeru tha Damaja]

Some people on here really confuse me. You want a striker with a prolific strikerate and without a history of injuries, yet Campbell gets the nod?

Campbell had one (count them) good season with Hull in the Championship and even then he only scored 15 goals. In the Premier League he's never scored more than 4 goals in a season, so if everyone is so keen that we build a team that would survive if we were promoted he's not the sort of forward you want leading the line.

Add to that he spent most of 2011 nursing the same injury that apparently makes Best a liability. To me, the knee injury is even more important for Campbell than Best since his goals were mostly a product of his pace, and that kind of injury will have an impact.

[HemelRover]

Some people on here really confuse me. You want a striker with a prolific strikerate and without a history of injuries, yet Campbell gets the nod?

Campbell had one (count them) good season with Hull in the Championship and even then he only scored 15 goals. In the Premier League he's never scored more than 4 goals in a season, so if everyone is so keen that we build a team that would survive if we were promoted he's not the sort of forward you want leading the line.

Add to that he spent most of 2011 nursing the same injury that apparently makes Best a liability. To me, the knee injury is even more important for Campbell than Best since his goals were mostly a product of his pace, and that kind of injury will have an impact.

This.

[Speedie Dived]

speedie, so you are judging a guy on one game? if we did that to every player who has a stinker then im sure most players wouldn't cut it, im sure if the likes of zidane or ronaldo had been playing poorly against rovers, you would have said exactly the same thing?

No, i am judging him on his entire career. Last 4 years he has scored 6 goals. What i saw with my own eyes confirmed the fact that he is not very good at all.

[Salgado Is A Hero]

Injury problems.......stay well away....don't want any realistic signing that has injury issues.

[T.J.Newton]

Other than having some pace he always seems pretty below average to me, bit of a confidence player(and he wont get much of that here) and obviously a massive injury liability(we have had enough of those).

[davulsukur]

Far too injury prone to even consider bringing him in.

[dwayne cage]

I think this would be a better signing than Rhodes would to be fair.

[Salgado Is A Hero]

I think this would be a better signing than Rhodes would to be fair.

You won't find many people who agree with you there......you'd think Best's injury would be reason alone to not sign an injury-prone striker as his replacement, let alone one who doesn't score too often.

If nobody took a gamble on lower league players, there would be some excellent players still there. I watched Rhodes against Holland U21's and he looked really good....add that to his goal-to-game ratio and it's not as big as a gamble as some are making out imo.

[67splitscreen]

35 games in four seasons, hell Grella can give him a run for the money.

Move on to the next!

[Jeru tha Damaja]

He'd be an awful signing. He doesn't link up particularly well, he isn't a clinical finisher. The only thing he does is stretch the field with his pace, but even there he's lost half a yard as far as I can see and it doesn't net him many goals. I've tried to be positive about our signings and until Best got injured I was reasonably happy with him, Murphy and (to an extent) Gomes, but Campbell would be an utter waste of money.

Rhodes is expensive considering he's only played league football in the third tier, but if we have the sort of money that we're talking about spending on Rhodes then we should be looking at people who are a little more potent and a little less damaged than Fraizer Campbell.

[Ossydave]

Given his injury problems he seems like the worst possible replacement around for Best, its a complete nonsense story from a bored journo.