Nikica Jelavic - Now official: he's signed

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Jelavic will be a very good signing. He has natural positioning, great player awareness and a clinical, no nonsense finish. His career shows any downturn can be explained and competition and a break in regular selection has had its effect. Certainly not worried about that; I think he will be the catalyst to a bit of an away run.

Give Shane Long a wide berth and sign Le Fondre at a fraction of the price, then get Livers on a permanent.

Left wing is a bit of a concern - any news on Brady?
 
Carmine Galante said:
I'm fairly sure Graham has missed a fair few decent chances.

He doesn't get any half chances away either, always wants another touch .

Back on Jelavic, he appears to be the opposite of Fryatt who always takes too many touches.

This bloke likes to hit it first time whenever he can.
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I remember thinking Jelavic was really good, but beyond that I can't remember much detail about why. I'll take your word for it on the first touches <ok> The only significant miss I can remember of Graham's was in one of the first home games where he got the rebound from a long shot and skied it. I think it's more of people seeing 'Goals: 1' next to his name and assuming he's missing chances left right and centre without actually knowing what chances they're on about. Apologies if I'm wrong and you've actually got loads in mind but that's the way I see it. We have this debate all the time. On the flip side we used to have the same with Fryattin 11/12 where I'd list 15 one on one sitters he'd missed and everyone would just deny it as I hadn't just reeled off the exact games they took place in.
 
Hull City AFC (Ricardo) said:
That's not confirmed. In the middle of August the budget for the season had an £11M deficit. That deficit will have included a transfer budget for the season. We don't know what that transfer budget was, so we don't know how much (if any) of this £14M was already accounted for. For all we know there was a £25M transfer kitty in the original budget that we planned to spend as £17M in the summer building the squad, and £8M now adding a couple of players. Because the Long deal collapsed we only spent about £11M in the summer, and that would leave all this £14M as part of the original plan without increasing the deficit at all.

It's also not confirmed what position we were budgeting on finishing. On £1.3M per place in the table sitting in 10th place puts us around £9M up on prize money compared to a budget where we planned to finish 17th.
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Agree with all of this. While I have no issue with people being cautious due to what happened last time, I don't think we need to be feeling too negative when we should be excited about the way these signings can propel us forward as a club.
 
Have I just seen we're quoting £14 mill for both Jelavic & Long? Dunno how where they get that from.

If true, it's a load for a club whose pretty much relying on next year's tv money.

As for Mrs Long saying what she did on twitter. She doesn't deserves slagging off like that. It's pathetic.
 
I think if we do get him, he'll start off like a house on fire. Bang in a few then next season taper off and get moved on. They're the travellers of Europe.
 
Golaccio! said:
Have I just seen we're quoting £14 mill for both Jelavic & Long? Dunno how where they get that from.

If true, it's a load for a club whose pretty much relying on next year's tv money.

As for Mrs Long saying what she did on twitter. She doesn't deserves slagging off like that. It's pathetic.
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If we finish 5 places higher as a result of signing the two of them then we've got them for about half price.
 
PLT said:
I remember thinking Jelavic was really good, but beyond that I can't remember much detail about why. I'll take your word for it on the first touches <ok> The only significant miss I can remember of Graham's was in one of the first home games where he got the rebound from a long shot and skied it. I think it's more of people seeing 'Goals: 1' next to his name and assuming he's missing chances left right and centre without actually knowing what chances they're on about. Apologies if I'm wrong and you've actually got loads in mind but that's the way I see it. We have this debate all the time. On the flip side we used to have the same with Fryattin 11/12 where I'd list 15 one on one sitters he'd missed and everyone would just deny it as I hadn't just reeled off the exact games they took place in.
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He scored 27 goals in a row where he took one touch and 41 out of 44.

As for Graham?

I appreciate he hasn't missed any one to ones that I can think of but I must shout ' Just f**king hit it' at him at least once a game.

Also the amount of times the ball has bobbled around the opposition area or dropped in the six yard box with no f**ker( Graham included) to tap it in might get rectified if we sign Jelavic.
 
It all depends if you want to play two up top with jelly or not.i will be interested to see how you play. You have the best english passing midfielder in the epl .if the price quoted for jelly is correct it could go one of two ways. **** hot or shyte.unless you're a sky brat with money to puke, i think for the money you've paid is lower risk and V.F.M . I wouldn't mind Long at Everton btw. Good player.UOTE=Carmine Galante;5892319]Cheers pal.

Not what Tobes is saying, he reckons he's a donkey but a sense of perspective is needed.

Strikers cost the earth and anyone banging them in regularly in the PL costs well in excess of the five or so million we are looking at paying.

We do create chances but Graham has been a major disappointment in the finishing department.

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everton1878blue said:
It all depends if you want to play two up top with jelly or not.i will be interested to see how you play. You have the best english passing midfielder in the epl .if the price quoted for jelly is correct it could go one of two ways. **** hot or shyte.unless you're a sky brat with money to puke, i think for the money you've paid is lower risk and V.F.M . I wouldn't mind Long at Everton btw. Good player.UOTE=Carmine Galante;5892319]Cheers pal.

Not what Tobes is saying, he reckons he's a donkey but a sense of perspective is needed.

Strikers cost the earth and anyone banging them in regularly in the PL costs well in excess of the five or so million we are looking at paying.

We do create chances but Graham has been a major disappointment in the finishing department.

Jelavic could prove to be a blinding signing.
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I seem to remember him doing well initially at Everton and then going off the boil.

What was it 3 goals at Old Trafford a few seasons ago?

You've moved on as a club, and he needs to re-discover his touch.

I'm sceptical he's worth it, afterall, he's not played an awful lot for club nor country (i'm assuming Manzukic is natural first choice for Croatia) & if he'd scored goals he'd not be considered for a transfer.

Mind you, he couldn't be any worse than Graham.
 
Jelly is quoted at 3.5 mill raising to 5 from what's been said up here the last week.a no brainer - snap him up. Like an earlier post said, he scored something like 27 goals out of 35 with one touch. Everton ****ed him up by playing fellaini in the false 10 position. I was at the Q.P.R cup game last week and his off the ball movement was superb.i think you're getting a bargain.
 
I heard £3.5m too.

Great signing for Hull <ok>

Big strong striker, good at leading the line and has a great touch and finish.
 
Tobes said:
Wrong

He was first choice last season, until he stank the place out & was dropped in favour of Victor f**king Anichebe!

It's a massive gamble by Bruce here.
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Who was flogged for around £6m. It's obviously the market price for such players. Or at least Kenwright's valuation.
 
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