Nope. In on a free with probably dirt cheap wages who will continue his coaching badges and possibly become player coach. Will be a huge asset for us. Plus he's a club legend.
Can't believe you come on here and take the piss out of some of our targets then defend the decision to sign Heskey. I would rather have Diouf than him, talk about backwards step, can't handle Beckford who can score for fun if played right and in comes journeyman Heskey. We had a few legends recently linked with returns, most of us didn't want to see them back... In what way is he going to be a huge asset for the club? He only managed a goal every 4 games for you lot, 10 goals a season and recently that average has dropped. Older, fatter, slower and he is an asset, not just going to be an asset a HUGE one!!???
For the reasons i've explained. It always makes me laugh at the morons who look past his inability to score goals yet they forget how fantastic they are as a strike partner. Him and Nugent up front and I think Nugent could get 25+ goals next season. As a targetman, there isn't a better one in terms of experience and quality and he'd provide the extra dimension that would fill the void left by Howard. http://fourfourtwo.com/statszone/share.aspx?i=08Pbh A recent example, Heskey (during the West Brom game) had 28 passes to him and only 2 of these failed.
Okay 25 for Nugent, probably 8 if you are lucky from the big man, 33 goals, probably 50 short of promotion, so where are the rest of the goals going to come from? I assume you are not playing more than two strikers? Sorry but any two strikers playing up front totalling 30-33 goals between them isn't enough for promotion. Becchio and mcCormack managed around 31 between them but when you look at Becchio's game time that wasn't bad.
Sorry? But how is it not good enough? Tell that to Newcastle, QPR and Reading; the last three to win this division. Newcastle's top scorer; Andy Carroll - 17 goals. QPR's top scorer; Adel Taarabt - 19 goals Reading's top scorer; Adam le Fondre - 12 goals. It gets even better when you look at the 'best' (by that I mean top two scorers) strike partnerships for the season. Newcastle's best strike partnership - Andy Carrol and Peter Lovenkrands - 30 goals QPR's best strike partnership - Jamie Mackie (albeit injured half season) and Hiedar Helguson - 22 goals Reading's best strike partnership - Adam le Fondre and Noel Hunt - 20 goals When you chip in 10 goals from each winger, 15 goals from a CM, 5 goals from at least two defenders and then about 15 goals from loanees/youth players/substitutes you have 80 odd goals which is not far off two goals per game which has only been beaten (from the last three season i've used as my example) by Southampton, Norwich, Newcastle and West Brom. All of whom went up automatically.
Well a creative midfield of Gallagher, Wellens, Drinkwater and Marshall will do me if you're looking to feed strikers.
Your correct of course !! SO what happened this season then ??, or was it the fact you needed Heskey to finish all the chances these superb midfielders created !!
Well our strikers got 30 goals between them and Jermaine Beckford was one of them. Can you please buy him back?
Good because he's ****. Possibly the worst touch for a striker i've seen in a Leicester shirt and we've had Mark de Vries, Elvis Hammond and Barry Hayles in recent years. Can't beat a man, win a header, win a tackle, no technical ability, no footballing brain, no desire, never tries to bring others into the game, he needs 30 touches to get the ball where he wants it and he needs 50 chances till he scores. If you bid so we can reclaim a bit of the 2m we spent then i'd quite happily drive him up to Leeds first thing tomorrow.
