I was one of those who thought it was a big mistake letting Oscar go especially if Davis was the replacement but now i see LR did what he had to do to improve the team and performances and we have certainly improved and played better football since.
This is such a dumb argument. Ross McCormack’s 37 as well and scored more Championship goals than Óscar. Should we sign him too?
I don't think Kalman is going to shift his position on this unless Sharp emerges as a deep-lying, hard tackling, ball winning central midfielder.
Liam Cullen 7/4 to join Hull city in the January widow according to the Yorkshire post… The forward has missed just one of Swansea’s league games this season, which funnily enough was against Hull. The 24-year-old made his senior breakthrough with the Wales national team earlier this year.
Dunno If 5'10 is tall enough but he's 24, inexpensive, averaged a goal every 260 mins he's played in the championship and covers virtually every position in the forward line. Comes from Swansea so he should be well versed in pissing about at the back already. Looks to potentially be an astute and practical signing - but probably underwhelming again for some - if there's anything in it.
Seem to be missing the elephant in the room. Billy will be on an absolute fraction of what Oscar was on here and happy to be a bit part player whereas Oscar wanted to play.
The suggestion is Sharp is not happy to just be a bit part player and expects/wants to be involved as much as possible. But who knows.
I don't understand this age problem. He's 37, yet he can still run and finish like a 21 year old can. He's here for five months, on what will no doubt be a relatively low wage and has just come off the back of a pretty decent scoring spell in the MLS. Where's the issue? He isn't the only forward we're after and he had offers from plenty of other Championship clubs. The fact he's 37 doesn't really matter if he can still do the things he is supposed to do properly. If he comes in and manages 5 goals that make a difference, he was worth every penny. I doubt he'll start games, but given our lack of forward options from the bench, it's hardly a gamble.
But he's allowed to have a **** season, it's just because he's knocking on that everyone writes him off.
Dunno if you've heard his tigers plus interview, but he was fairly realistic and complimentary about the lads ahead of him. He knows he's here to offer experience and it's as much about his contribution off it as on it.
When you have a **** season at that age it's reasonably rare to suddenly have a good one the year after. If even LA aren't triggering his extension I'm not sure he's going to offer much on the pitch for us. It's a bit Liam Ridgewell-y, but at least Sharp has the experience and ability to offer coaching advice to Delap.
I don't get the negativity. Signing a third-choice striker isn't easy as minutes are limited. He's bounced back in the MLS this year with a solid goalscoring return and I'm not going to speculate why LA didn't trigger his extension because I don't know anything about it. He still made 38 appearances last season so Sheff Utd clearly didn't think he was useless. He's different to what we have and I fully expect him to score a few big goals
The Watford game was pretty much Exhibit A why we need someone like him. Philogene misses a penalty and we end up losing a game we should've won. Put Billy on that penalty and we probably win the game and it's an 3 extra points
