Yeah may be a decent striker for us at this level, but there is no way he is worth £4m as it stands. I imagine, if he leaves Brum, he will go to a Prem club anyway, and would be suprised if it was for more than £2.5m. Sometimes you have to take a risk based on someone's potential and possible cohension in your team, but not at thhis price.
I think the papers, including our own Mercury at the minute, are just looking around seeing who is/may be available and putting 2 and 2 together.
The problem is, of the 11 top scorers in the division from last year, 6 are at Premiership clubs now, 1 is Andy King and 1 is injured. That leaves a choice of Long, Gradel and Sharp. Long is vastly overpriced in my opinion; considering he had a pretty poor record before 2010-11 and Gradel is a good player but not a striker.
I have said this before, and will probably get slated, but for the money being talked about, we could probably get Sharp and take a punt on Bradley Wright-Phillips???
Or, with West Brom rumoured to want Long, we could perhaps get Cox for £2/£2.5m??