keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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As Burke spent ages trying to get Obika and is presumably responsible for our other signings this season, i'd have to say Gus'
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Leicester after £6.5m Leo Ulloa
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As Burke spent ages trying to get Obika and is presumably responsible for our other signings this season, i'd have to say Gus'
nwgull
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Correct, that's the difference between a PL and Championship striker, which is why we should bite someone's hand off for 6.5m.
symyjym
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Easy to forget all the failed loan players brought in by Gus or ones that didn't fit in to his style, like Vokes. And for all intent and purposes it would have been Burke doing the hard work in getting Ulloa, even if it was a Gus target.
Burke has to be given credit for good signings, not just the not so good ones. I will let you make that list but I'll give you Ward to start with.
16 goals having missed 3 months with a broken foot.
How many might he have netted with an unbroken run?
Leicester can do one, so can everyone else.
portslade seagull
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Madness if we sell as it will take time once again to find a suitable replacement, it depends on how much remodelling Oscar wants with the 1st team, to buy he needs to sell and sadly Leo is a prime asset
Paskman
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What I want to know is where; all these people who want to sell Leo think we will get a replacement? Or is the truth that they dont want us to get promoted and would rather be where we were 10 + years ago? Perhaps we should re sign Alex Revell? Mark Farrington could do a job. FFS where is the ambition, you dont sell your best players unless there is a better one round the corner.....Obika? he could lead the line, or Lita? he did a great job.....
£6.5million?
I'll drive him to Leicester myself for that.
I doubt very much that they'd pay that. Would much rather Leo stayed.
If true, then it's a poor show from Leicester to be destabalising our season in this way. Theirs may have finished, but ours is still ongoing.
Let's put in an offer for a load of Derby players now.
I'll drive him to Leicester myself for that.
I doubt very much that they'd pay that. Would much rather Leo stayed.
If true, then it's a poor show from Leicester to be destabalising our season in this way. Theirs may have finished, but ours is still ongoing.
Let's put in an offer for a load of Derby players now.
and do what with the money?
Buy a championship striker who may or may not propel us into the play offs and promotion.
Stick with what we know, at least until such time as the money is impossible to turn down.
Scoffers
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The thing that everybody seems to forget is the player's mindset. If we don't go up then turn down any decent offer for Leo from a Premiership club, he's gonna get pissed off and demotivated just like Bridcutt was and we will probably be forced to sell him later at a reduced rate.
For this reason I think that if we go up we tell everyone else to get lost. If we don't go up and the offer is of that ilk, sell.
For this reason I think that if we go up we tell everyone else to get lost. If we don't go up and the offer is of that ilk, sell.
fat old seagull
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True, in fact it appears to have harmed him more than us. As Sunderland appear to have survived relegation, and with Black Cats supporters (and possibly Poyet) realising he's not up to the Prem, as they've improved since he's not been playing.
Steve Foster
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nwgull
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Buy another striker and offer competitive deals to all the players that are out of contract in June that we want to keep, and replace those that we don't. 6.5m will still go a long way in this division.
Ulloa was great at the end of last season and has been great again this season, people saying get rid are idiots in my opinion.
what Ulloa had last season was the supply ball after ball from Spanish Dave, Orlandi, Lua Lua, Buckley, Bridge Bruno, being swung in onto his nut. when he gets that service he scores, our balls into the box of late have been pretty naff, but when there is a decent ball played in, he will put it in.
If we dont go up and dont have Ulloa next season, we will struggle.
I swear people on here always want a new shiny toy to play with. Ulloa is probably the best striker we have had since Zamora, but people are on here knocking him.
what Ulloa had last season was the supply ball after ball from Spanish Dave, Orlandi, Lua Lua, Buckley, Bridge Bruno, being swung in onto his nut. when he gets that service he scores, our balls into the box of late have been pretty naff, but when there is a decent ball played in, he will put it in.
If we dont go up and dont have Ulloa next season, we will struggle.
I swear people on here always want a new shiny toy to play with. Ulloa is probably the best striker we have had since Zamora, but people are on here knocking him.
That's INSANE, how can you possibly think such a small amount of money could buy a decent striker and hand around competitive deals.
If you could pick up a decent striker for £4-5m that would be the going rate, but it's not, not even close.
You're looking at twice that in order to get a player in who's a proven goal scorer.
How many strikers has the club been through, since Murray, and how many goals have they scored.
Had the club wanted to buy any of those, even they, even Painter, would have been 7 figures. (well maybe not Painter)
Leicester's opening offer is £6.5m, that's opening offer.
£6.5m gets you frack all in a division with parachute money swilling around.
£6.5 million would disappear very quickly on some very average players if we weren't careful. Ulloa, thankfully, is far from average. He is certainly a player that could get us out of the Championship. One good cross is all it could take to clinch £100 million.
I genuinely believe he could be our first £10 million pound player.
I genuinely believe he could be our first £10 million pound player.
Danny Graham sold for £3.5m.
Charlie Austin sold for £3.5-£4m.
Luciano Becchio sold for Steve Morison and £200k (Morison probably worth £1.5-£2m at the time).
I'd say £6.5m is above his market value. But he's worth more than that to us, so I'd do all we can to keep him.
Charlie Austin sold for £3.5-£4m.
Luciano Becchio sold for Steve Morison and £200k (Morison probably worth £1.5-£2m at the time).
I'd say £6.5m is above his market value. But he's worth more than that to us, so I'd do all we can to keep him.
Finally we can end the conversation.
Sell Leo, buy Danny Graham fight relegation next season.
Is that what you want, cos that's what's gonna happen.
It may well help if you read a post fully. If so, you'd see I said keep Ulloa.
Danny Graham had exactly the same goal ratio when at Watford, and was younger, yet sold for £3.5m.