Dwight Gayle (now playing for Hibernian)

[Stottie]

As I've said before, I rate Dwight Gayle. He must be worth as much as or more than Andre Gray who just went for 18M. Gray has 9 PL goals and like Gayle is already 26. I would question whether Huddersfield, Brighton, and Swansea (once Llorente heads to Chelsea) have a striker as good as Gayle.

 

If Rafa can pull off some serious wheeler-dealer move though by selling him, I hope he goes for it. If it is Origi, we would be a perfect loan destination for Liverpool because we look a solid team who could potentially take more points off Liverpool's rivals with more quality up front. Goals for us against Top 6 sides would be more use to Liverpool than goals for them in the final minutes of games where they are already ahead.

[loki679]

Seems a strange one, like, it's all happened very quickly.  First choice striker then a week or two later he's not even in the matchday squad and there's talk of getting rid....

[54]

[Figures 1-0 Football]

Sounds more and more that Gayle is seen by Rafa under the same bracket of the likes of Hanley, Murphy etc.

 

Signed to get us up, then expected to replace this summer.

[Ikon]

Gayle is a good goal scorer when he's being provided with chances, but he offers little to the team and doesn't create anything for himself.  Thats ok when you can dominate teams easily (Championship), as he'll nick lots of goals.  But when most teams are as good or better than us we need everyone involved just to create chances.  With him in the side we struggle as a team against any decent side, create very little and that renders him useless, it even happened plenty of times last season against the better Championship sides.  For the way Rafa wants to play we need a different player, especially in this league.  Someone who can score but also has better movement and can get involved in team play more.

 

Couldnt agree more

[Roids]

He's our best striker by a mile, the idea we're looking to sell him with no other proven goalscorers on the books is laughable. The injury concerns are valid, that said, unless it's something chronic I'd rather he stayed myself...

[Ikon]

He's our best finisher, yes, easily.

[afar]

He's our best striker by a mile, the idea we're looking to sell him with no other proven goalscorers on the books is laughable. The injury concerns are valid, that said, unless it's something chronic I'd rather he stayed myself...

 

He's clearly not been the same player since his injury last season, despite his wonderful record you can't keep players around that have a saleable value but are simply not contributing. Gayle has hardly contributed since January, some 8 months ago. The big question is if we sold him would we replace him? And the obvious answer is, no.

[Dinho lad]

£20m for Gayle plus Origi on loan? Would probably take that.

[Danh1]

The Gayle leading up until January would have done well in the PL. However he hasn't looked as sharp since, probably not his fault but still.

[Minhosa]

In this market he's worth £20m+ all day long in terms of what he represents to a Championship side.

 

Wimmer has just gone for £18m ffs.

 

I had a funny feeling either he or Shelvey would be sold this summer.

[David Icke - Son of God]

I think a fully fit Gayle could get goals in this league no bother, but he clearly doesn't have a great deal of faith in his body at this moment in time. Whether that's something that he can get over or something more deep-seated like Sturridge we don't know but Rafa's comments a few weeks ago suggested he was getting frustrated with it. If there's an opportunity to cash in for £20m and if (and this is the important bit) we reinvest before deadline day then I wouldn't be that perturbed. At the moment we're probably not going to see a lot of him anyway.

[TK-421]

£20m for Gayle plus Origi on loan? Would probably take that.

 

Don't know much about Origi (if i'm honest), but is he good enough for Liverpools alleged insistence that he'd play every week?

[timeEd32]

Sounds like if we had gotten Abraham we would have been happy to shift Gayle.

[mozy]

He looked a shell of himself in the first two games so if that's the Gayle we're left with this season I'd sooner go with Joselu, Mitro and AN Other. 

[Ikon]

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/leeds-enquire-about-newcastle-s-dwight-gayle-1-8727396

[WarrenBartonCentrePartin]

Not sure how I feel about this. If it was the beginning of the summer and an obvious replacement was lined up, then fine.

 

But a huge chunk of me thinks, especially given the recent Keegan/Rafa comparisons, this feels like it could be Milner/Schweinsteiger all over again. 

[Seymour]

Dont sell him

[Chrisjraby]

With Mitro now banned, can we even afford to sell him?  I find it hard to believe we'd be far enough down the road of finding a replacement to justify it, seems like another Carroll situation.

[toontownman]

With Mitro now banned, can we even afford to sell him?  I find it hard to believe we'd be far enough down the road of finding a replacement to justify it, seems like another Carroll situation.

 

If we get $35m for him I would carry him there, regardless of a replacement coming in or not.

 

Seriously though we hardly have a history of doing the right thing and bringing a replacement in before we sell. I doubt we will offload him tbh just because we won't get anyone else. Remy would be an equivalent in being knackered and hit and miss effective.

 

[triggs]

With Mitro now banned, can we even afford to sell him?  I find it hard to believe we'd be far enough down the road of finding a replacement to justify it, seems like another Carroll situation.

 

If we get $35m for him I would carry him there, regardless of a replacement coming in or not.

 

Seriously though we hardly have a history of doing the right thing and bringing a replacement in before we sell. I doubt we will offload him tbh just because we won't get anyone else. Remy would be an equivalent in being knackered and hit and miss effective.

Aye we can just play the big pile of cash up front instead

[toontownman]

With Mitro now banned, can we even afford to sell him?  I find it hard to believe we'd be far enough down the road of finding a replacement to justify it, seems like another Carroll situation.

 

If we get $35m for him I would carry him there, regardless of a replacement coming in or not.

 

Seriously though we hardly have a history of doing the right thing and bringing a replacement in before we sell. I doubt we will offload him tbh just because we won't get anyone else. Remy would be an equivalent in being knackered and hit and miss effective.

Aye we can just play the big pile of cash up front instead

 

More useful in the premiership than Gayle. 

[DJ_NUFC]

With Mitro now banned, can we even afford to sell him?  I find it hard to believe we'd be far enough down the road of finding a replacement to justify it, seems like another Carroll situation.

 

If we get $35m for him I would carry him there, regardless of a replacement coming in or not.

 

Seriously though we hardly have a history of doing the right thing and bringing a replacement in before we sell. I doubt we will offload him tbh just because we won't get anyone else. Remy would be an equivalent in being knackered and hit and miss effective.

Aye we can just play the big pile of cash up front instead

 

This is the kind of fan Ashley wants. And has created. toontownman, give your head a shake.

[DJ_NUFC]

With Mitro now banned, can we even afford to sell him?  I find it hard to believe we'd be far enough down the road of finding a replacement to justify it, seems like another Carroll situation.

 

If we get $35m for him I would carry him there, regardless of a replacement coming in or not.

 

Seriously though we hardly have a history of doing the right thing and bringing a replacement in before we sell. I doubt we will offload him tbh just because we won't get anyone else. Remy would be an equivalent in being knackered and hit and miss effective.

Aye we can just play the big pile of cash up front instead

 

More useful in the premiership than Gayle. 

 

Okay, scratch my previous post. You're just an idiot.

[duo]

I'd sell him if we had a replacement lined up - big IF though.