Sunday Sun article

The difference between Rhodes and, say, Beckford or Mackail-Smith is that Rhodes is young and still improving.
Real talent. Would like him a lot.

 

22 apps, 27 goals this season, not too shabby...

 

I'd like Rhodes, but £6m would be a big gamble. £4 + performance related add ons would be a safer bet.

 

Scoring lots of hat tricks can actually fudge the figures slightly, particularly in lower leagues. Of his 22 goals, if 13 were scored in 4 games then it could be the case that over 50% off his goals have come in games against ver, very weak opposition. Kris Boyd is a prime example of this, SPL top scorer of all time, never scored against Celtic, not even good enough for the Championship.

 

He's still very young though, as opposed to players like Beckford, Lambert etc who are prolific at lower level. We have a limited budget, he's the sort of player we could be taking a gamble on.

 

The clarkie factor may swig things in our favour..

 

Why? Do you think there will be drink in it for Clarkie?

 

from watching league 1 football at mk dons and seeing sam baldock go to the championship at west ham and do well there, i would say Jordan Rhodes is good enough for the premiership

 

Some of the goals he's scored too are top drawer, he's a natural goalscorer and will only improve with age.

 

Could also be Zaha, although he may be too expensive.

Rhodes is a truly class player, I'd love him here.

 

I'd take Jordan Rhodes definitely, although i'd rather a decent big striker, as Ba plays a lot better when he's not forced to be the target man. Saying that we could definitely do with another small striker besides Lovenkrands!

 

Rhodes is 6'2" (roughly Ba/Shola's height), although no idea if he uses his height effectively.

 

More of a quick striker than a target man, although uses his strength effectively when running with the ball. Similar to Ba, although not as good with his head. Very similar to Shearer actually.

 

Really!? He's always looked tiny when i've seen him play! Fine then, he'll do

 

He's not quick though

 

He has been whenever I've seen him play (which is three times btw). Not lightning ala Routledge, but certainly quicker than most.

 

I know it can be deceiving when footballers in lower leagues have good records, and you wonder whether they can step up, but Rhodes currently has more goals than he has appearances this season. BETTER than 1 in 1.

Even if his goalscoring ability halved by moving up to the more difficult Premier League, he would still be a very prolific 1 in 2 striker, with room to still improve as a player.

 

messi