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How do you feel about Dwight Gayle's contract extension?  

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  1. 1. How do you feel about Dwight Gayle's contract extension?

    • Delighted
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    • Happy
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    • Mixed emotions
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    • Unhappy
      3
    • The club is a joke
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Could see Rafa bringing in someone in the summer and dropping Gayle to back up, as Keegan did when we went up replacing Kelly and Peacock with Cole and Beardsley. Can't see Gayle or Mitro being first choice if we go back up, but would be surprised if Gayle were sold at all either in Jan or the summer. He's proven to be a perfectly capable squad player in the prem.

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Highly doubt we'll do that. Plus, Gayle's goal record for Palace was very good considering he was never given a run in the side, played out wide and as a sub a lot by their braindead procession of managers.

 

Agreed. We might well be in the market for a proven striker when we go up, but there's every chance Gayle will be hitting goals at that level as well if you go by his limited opportunities under Pardew. It would be daft to discard him without giving him a chance.

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I am guessing the thinking behind this is - Gayle will not be as prolific in the PL and we could sell him for a good price. Then put that money towards somebody with a better record at the top level?

 

:dontknow:

 

His goals per minutes record in the top flight is superb - I'm sure it's 1 every 180 minutes!

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Considering he was playing for one of the poorer teams, and he seemed to be a sub half the time, his scoring record in the Premiership isn't too shabby.

 

He shows great composure when a chance comes his way. He never seems to get flustered or over-excited, and reads the game well.

 

He's a late developer so who knows what more there is to come. He never looked fazed at playing in the Premiership and caused problems for the opposition every time I saw him.

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McCormack only done so well at Fulham because the team was built around him.

 

Now he's at a team not built around him and he can't even get into it at the moment. Only scored twice in 11 appearences as well.

 

Gayle is so much better and doesnt need to be the centre of the team to do well.

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Quite how anyone at Villa thought paying £12m for McCormack would be a good idea is beyond me, like.

 

You'd think they would have learned when they paid nearly £20m for Darren Bent despite having a team desperately lacking in invention and assumed that it would be the answer to all their problems.

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McCormack's goal record coupled with the fact he's never been in a team anywhere near promotion should have set alarm bells ringing, and I said as much when they signed him. Darren Bent is a fair comparison. All goals and offers sod all else.

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Since people were moaning about him being poor in-front of goal in the first half against Norwich.

 

http://i.imgur.com/poNTr3X.png

 

:lol:

 

Martin O'Neill levels of arbitrary substitutions. At least Rafa is doing it to rotate, O'Neill would want until minute X Y and Z in every single game to try to change it IIRC.

 

I'm sure Brummie mentioned this when he went to Sunderland and low and behold it played out, same minutes with both clubs :lol:

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