Dwight Gayle (now playing for Hibernian)

[Dr Jinx]

Dunno if anyone remembers last season when ASM was back after injury/covid, there was a video of training, and ASM being interviewed, Gayle jogs past and sarcastically mutters “The saviour of Newcastle”, thought he was an absolute bellend from that point.

 

I’ve no time for him, or sympathy. He’s seemed happy to pick up wages and not play the last 2 seasons, what should essentially be the peak of his career.

[sh74]

Has the look of a tranny.

 

[gjohnson]

On 13/09/2021 at 11:56, neesy111 said:

Gayle scores more goals but he's absolutely hopeless in getting into games, needs service on a absolute plate.

And Big Jo does better?

[AJ9]

The argument about Gayle being crap at getting into games is a fair point, but when all is said and done you need to score goals to win games. I don’t think it’s necessarily an argument of Joelinton vs Gayle tbh. If your second striker (Gayle) has a specific set of strengths and weaknesses that are different to your first choice, well then the system you use should be adapted to try and reduce the impact of the weaknesses and play to his strengths. It would require some form of plan which we clearly do not have. Gayle has to start games when Wilson is out. He is the only other striker we have that can finish chances. In fact we don’t even have another striker.

[Beth]

Despite his shitty attitude I'd have Gayle starting ahead of Linton every single game. The most tragic thing is we gave him an extended contract in the vain hope of getting a transfer fee for him rather than him fucking off on a free, which we will do in three years time anyway with him having scored maybe 10 more goals in total.

 

 

Edited September 18, 2021 by Beth

[TRon]

On 17/09/2021 at 07:44, Optimistic Nut said:

Even then he misses a decent number.

 

Yeah, when you don't do much else you need to be a pretty clinical finisher. But Gayle is a goal scorer, given our lack of them, then it's a surprise Bruce hasn't found a place for him. But then Bruce doesn't seem to have much of a clue in any area of the pitch. 

[Amir_9]

Joelinton has a better game outside the box and can somewhat contribute to overall team play but is dogshit in the box and in front of goal

 

Gayle is literally dogshit everywhere besides the odd goal and is not a stranger to missing sitters (Remember the Man City one from last year? Still haunts me).

 

Basically its like comparing whether you prefer a holiday with ISIS or Al Qaeda.

 

 

Edited September 19, 2021 by Amir_9

[Kanj]

Became a completely different player after we came up to the PL. I really liked his attitude and style of play in the Championship under Rafa but has looked nothing but a moody, confidence lacking backup striker if I’ve ever seen one. 

[Guest]

Pretty sure instead of the swap loan with WBA a few years ago for Rondon, they’d have snapped their hands off for something like £5m plus Gayle for him.

[Beth]

I'd still have him in ahead of Linton every single game.

[loki679]

You know 'Linton' isn't his surname, right?

[Beth]

1 hour ago, loki679 said:

You know 'Linton' isn't his surname, right?

I know, it's actually Deacon.

[Consortium of one]

 Gayle is a klingon

[Shearergol]

We're actually debating who's worse out of Gayle and Joelinton. Do fans of other clubs have to have the same debates about their shit players?

[mrmojorisin75]

Not his fault we didn't ship him the moment we sealed promotion with Rafa if you ask me.  There was plenty of money swimming about the champo then and we should have forced him out and recouped a decent fee instead of the usual bollocks we do to try and avoid spending money.

 

Who knows if we'd done that then we might have no ended up with Joelinton.

 

 

[huss9]

2 hours ago, Beth said:

I know, it's actually Deacon.

giving away your age there.

[LRD]

Page 4 before I could find his thread.

 

Time for his agent to find him another club. Wood and possibly Ekitike (U21, does not need squad registration) means we have to clear a slot. Took us out from the Championship but another player whom we kept for far too long. Non-entity for the past few years.

[duo]

Did he sign a new contract recently?

[Ronaldo]

I always liked him. Was stupidly good in the Championship and never forced any of the usual mawkish crap to try and win favour with the fans. He just got his head down and did his best.

 

Lives next to my mum and dad in Medburn. Really nice lad apparently and should leave here with nothing but good wishes. 

[huss9]

loved his celebration in the corner that last game of the promotion season.

[huss9]

and the comeback hatrick gainst norwich.

[Amir_9]

He has repaid what we paid for him. I think due to his pretty quiet/laidback personality and average record in the prem is why he was never really a fan favourite but by all means did his job to his best ability and that's all you can ask. I still wouldn't get rid this month but should be heading out end of the season for sure.

[Theregulars]

I always thought he got slightly shafted bu Rafa - for me he’d earned a crack at being the main man for the first season back up, at least until Christmas. I trust Rafa but just thought it became too public knowledge too quickly that he didn’t think Gayle was up to it, needless knock to his confidence. 
 

For the present moment though it’s just a situation that’s gone on way too long with no manager or fan believing in him while he sucks up his wages.

[Beth]

He still has another 2.5 years to go on his latest deal which will be way more then he'd get anywhere else. He's going nowhere other than out on loan with us still paying the majority of his wage.

[Disco]

13 minutes ago, ManDoon said:

Was it Leeds who he was winding up when scored? Phenomenal championship player, and good pro. 

And Huddersfield.