Gervinho - Is anyone here having second thoughts about him?

I think it would actually be a bad idea buying Gervinho. I think he's a great player, but people saying they'd pay 18-20m for him...

That's an awful lot of money to risk on a single player from abroad, and we have to make that money count or we could face relegation soon enough.

We're definitely not the only club interested in him, so i reckon his price tag will most likely be up to 20m and i don't think he's worth that. I've been watching as much as i can of him, and to be honest, he doesn't seem like the provider we need, he looks like the sort of player that will always try and cut in and score himself or try to play those little through balls. His crossing isn't really much more consistant than Jonas' and he's definitely not worth 3-4x what we payed for Ben Arfa.

Gervinho seriously doesn't look more impressive than Ben Arfa to me, and i'm going off paying through the nose for him.

We have the attacking mid in Ben Arfa, the type that can attack the back four and play those little key passes and through balls, we need to target a winger that can provide and cross in the ball into key areas for our strikers to attack, and Gervinho isn't that type of player, he looks like more of a Taraabt like player. A greedy attacking mid that constantly tries to cut in.

To me he's not worth the ridiculous fee that he will be sold for, and i personally think we shouldn't be considering this move anymore.

If Pardew can work his magic and get him for say 8m, then fair enough, but 15m is too much for him.

 

Absolutely no second thoughts whatsoever.
12m is about fair I think.
Wouldn't go as far as 16-18 though.

 

He looks world class, how would he be more of a gamble than any other established foreign player? We have to take these risks if we want to break into the top 8 or so. I think he'll be unreal

 

Could people read what i have to say in my article instead of just respoding to the question i asked?

I bet most of you have only see highlights on youtube. You can show the highlights of Jonas and make him look like a 20m quid player.

 

Well that means we most likely wont be getting him then, because theres tonnes of top clubs after him, and i can garuntee 12m won't be enough.

 

I did read your article, I just happen to disagree with you. You say we need someone to provide crosses, I say we need more players who can get forward and play short, fast passes to support Ben Arfa and Jonas. Barton can play the long balls if we need them but as we've seen already this season, playing a target man against the likes of Stoke and Bolton doesn't work, we need to split their defences.

 

yeh what he said

 

Then we'll have the same problem as this season then, because we can't just rely on Barton for long balls and deliveries. We've seen what happens without Barton in our team. No wins.

We need someone reliable for deliveries like Barton.

Look i'm not saying Gervinho wouldn't be good, i'm just saying we shouldn't be so quick to go back to the band waggon days, when we just throw money at foreign talent and expected it to get us success. Gervinho wouldn't be worth risking half of our available money on.

 

I'm in agreement with tash on this one as we're a mid table team and have to be realistic with our buys.

If a 'world class' player is available he will almost certainly not have any interest in joining our club. He is not world class. At our rate, spending 20m on a foreign (non-world class) player would be a scary thought.

What we need to do is spend with caution. I for one would prefer us to spend no more than 20m this summer, spending the rest of this transfer fund over the coming years. By doing this we should be able to aquire the sort of bargains we've been achieving for the past year.

Mr Pardew, spend carefully!!

 

It's not necessarily the amount of money we spend overall, it's the amount of money we spend on certani players that i'll be concerned about

 

You're right, we shouldn't be blowing too much of our money on any single player, we need to fill out the squad this summer and buy 2-3 players at most who can go straight into the starting eleven.

 

Never been on the Gervinho bandwagon don't think he's the player we need to score goals. Reminds me too much of players such as Ryan Babel, Saloman Kalou etc.

 

How on earth can you guarentee that, are you the Lille manager?

He's said he wants European football next year, so its unlikely we will sign him anyway.

 

No, you can't

 

I wouldn't pay 18-20m but would like to buy him

 

You have no idea how much he would cost, do you have the first idea where he wants to go, how much they want or who is genuinely interested, so no you cant guarantee he will cost 20mil. This is you making another stupid article because you saw one person say they'd pay 20mil for him. How many times have you watched him this season? And not on YouTube?

 

I can understand what you're on about, but although he may be 3 times HBA's price, he was injured at the time.

And it would be half Carroll's price, and he is better than that would suggest.

We may be better off looking for an established goalscorer (Sow, Sigorthsson etc.)

 

And for the record, you cant compare it to HBA, who was an absolute steal. He is easily worth 12mil and we have sealed what looks like one of the bargains of the year in that case.

 

It's not a stupid article and it's not because i saw one person say the'd pay 20 mil. This isn't even a reaction to people just on not606, i've talked to people in real life who heard we were in advanced talks with Lille, and that they'd have for 15-18 million in a heart beat.

I will be gutted if we end up paying a large amount of money for Gervinho. I'm not claiming to have a crystal ball that can see whether he'll be **** or not, but i wouldn't want to risk spending a large portion of our available funds on him.

The only reason why i wasn't pissed off about the HBA signing was because we got him for 5 million.

If we buy him i'll support Gervinho ofcourse, i think he looks like an excellent player, but i just hope we don't spend a ridiculous amount on him anymore. 20m is what i think he'll go for in the end, as Hazard and Sow are also being chased up by other clubs, so if Lille are going to have bids in for their 3 best attacking players, they'll need the money to replace them. They have alot of interest from other clubs, and i don't think 12m will be enough, that's my opinion.

 

You have to take gambles in football, you say it would be stupid to pay more than 15mil on Gervinho but every week you're telling us we should be buying Sturridge, who is less proven and would cost more!