Optimistic Nut Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Was around the same time people turned their noses up at Beattie for around the £5-6m mark. We'd have easily stayed up last season with him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I think Smith will be alright this season. Quite Frankly, he was our second best centre midfielder last season. I thought he improved the team. Even if that we're true, which imo it isn't, it still isn't a compliment to him, at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Alan Smith's not even the second best Alan Smith in the Premiership era. Would take the former Arsenal striker, and Crystal Palace manager before him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Was around the same time people turned their noses up at Beattie for around the £5-6m mark. We'd have easily stayed up last season with him. That's just nonsense. Do you remeber what he did after signing with Everton in 2004? In front of a much better team he had a strike rate that would have made Shola question himself. He had a decent spell last year with one of the other rubbish teams in the PL last year I know, but honestly I do not regret the club not wasting money on Beattie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Beattie's scored 122 league goals in 286 starts throughout his career. Even if 18 months were in the Championship, it's still a very impressive record for a Premiership striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 He's scored about 20 Premiership goals since 2004-2005. I am not impressed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 He's scored about 20 Premiership goals since 2004-2005. I am not impressed. Since he joined Everton. 20 goals in 67 starts (25 subs) in the Premiership. So still pretty much 1 in 3 starts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Beattie pretty much single handedly kept Stoke up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Theres a difference between a good striker, and one who perfectly suits a teams style of play. I don't think he would have suited ours at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1878 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Beattie isn't all that bad, just didn't suit our team at all. He's a good finisher when he's confident. He relies on service and needs to play with wingers who will whip crosses in for him all day though (or big fellas that can throw the ball dead, dead far). Since Moyes doesn't play genuine wingers it was a bit of a mis-match. In the end both parties needed him to move on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leazes1986 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Beattie fits into Stoke's team perfect. Stoke also have the likes of Etherington who have the ability to put a good ball into the box. If Beattie was in that team of ours last season he would have really struggled, no doubt about it. Jonas and Duff did not do the business when it comes to making chances at all. I tell you what, although i'm not comparing Carroll to Beattie at all, i bet Carroll would have got a few more goals if he was in that Stoke team than he did for us. Our teams creativity (especially coming from crosses) is a big strikers nightmare. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Ibrahimovich would have struggled in our team last season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 You've no idea what the environment will be like if Ashley sells and Shearer comes in though. Also I think a promising young loanee is going to take very little stick from the crowd. Yeah, Rossi didn't take any abuse at all. Nope, he didn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby_solano Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 i wish we'd signed smith in '04. the smith of '04 playing upfront with big al would have came on leaps and bounds. the smith we have now, the '09 post-broken legs, confused as to whether he's a midfielder or a striker thanks to fergie isn't a patch on the smith of '04 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sicko2ndbest Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Bassong to Man City ? http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/24281/City_could_give_up_on_Lescott.aspx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sicko2ndbest Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 http://fourfourtwo.com/news/spain/34378/default.aspx luque to malaga Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Bassong to Man City ? http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/24281/City_could_give_up_on_Lescott.aspx Yes please, make up for the Given transfer fee. £15m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sicko2ndbest Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 http://www.focus.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga1/bundesliga-martins-transfer-zu-den-woelfen-vor-dem-abschluss_aid_422258.html Does this say he has signed a contract until 2013? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Would anyone take David Di Michele? (released by west ham) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I read somewhere that we are the ONLY club out of 92 English clubs in England who haven't signed a single player. I think it was the Times. Makes this thread a bit redundant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 is stephen appiah still on a free? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 is stephen appiah still on a free? Yes, according to wiki Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 is stephen appiah still on a free? Still at Fenerbahçe ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I'm starting to think we won't be bringing in any players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I'm starting to think we won't be bringing in any players. I'm at the finish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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