Hi dudes,
Im a french Lyon's fan, I come here to read your news and feelings on the Gomis' deal.
I can tell you that Gomis is a good striker.He scored minimum 15 goals each season.
He doesn't become a top 30'goals striker in our team for many reasons:
-the main is the concurrence and the turnover with Lisandro Lopez,they shared the total of goals,so instead of having a striker with 30 goals, we had two 15'goals strikers during those last three seasons.
-We don't have a tactical play that suits him and his skills.(it's a reason we want to sell him).He is an Adebayor type of player, not a suarez alike, if you know what I mean.
-He miss some easy goals sometimes, but score breathless goals aswell.But the most important with him is that he is a absolute nightmare for the defenders, he really keeps well the ball, and use perfectly his big ass^^ And IMO its the best part of him. when in a match your team is in difficulties, you just have to kick the ball ahead and he will keep it and wait for his partners.And it is relieving for sure.
All the lyon's fans like gomis, but most of we prefer Lisandro cause he has so much soul and grinta.He loves the club, and as I said, he match our tactical play (technical,little passes).And we have Lacazette,Benzia,Njie who are extremly talented AC from our formation center, so the club want to let them have playtime behind Licha'
Having said that, I think your 8million bid was fair enough, for his one last year contract.
But you have to understand our chairman Aulas.Swansea,Shaktar and fernebahce were already okay to pay 12M but Gomis refused it and its the only reason he is still with us.
Gomis wants to play the world cup,he will not take the risk to stay and give up his chances,that's for sure.
So why Aulas should accept a 8M bid, while he has better options on his table ?and maybe another club enter the race.
In addition, Aulas saw that NUFC offered 12M for Andre pierre GIGNAC!!! And the fact is that everyone in France, even if the Marseille's fans, know that Gomis is far better than gignac in every point.Everyone knows that here, even if on the Marseille's forums.
So well, clearly, if Aulas refused that 8M bid, its because he has other otpions behind.
When you see the price of Cavani,caroll...Gomis is easily worth 15M haha
Gomis refused 3 options, now he prefer go to Marseille for CL, OM want him but they can only take Gomis if they sell Gignac.And gignac really doesn't want to leave,so it's dead.
Gomis is interested in NUFC (brazil,debuchy,cabaye),but he has an argument with Aulas, so our chairman will not let him go easily and accept a lower bid just because he chooses that team.IF he stays, he can say bye bye to the world cup, so Aulas is in a strong position even if with the one last year contract.
And maybe other clubs can enter the dance to take him.Tottenham and liverpool have already an eye on him, i won't be surprised if they come with a '8M+2M bonus bid' to win the lot
Does Cisse will stay for sure at newcastle?
What about cabaye?MU?
sorry for the long text and my bad english writing tools