Campbell is a talented player whose talent is in danger of being wasted. He has had - effectively - 5 1/2 seasons since his Man Utd debut. As there are ~50 games a year with various cups etc, that is a potential 275 games. He has started less than a third of those, and even with substitute appearances he has played in less than half. He has scored a stunning 21 league goals in that time (and 6 more in cups). 70% of those were in the 2/3rds of a season he was with us. I suggest this is last chance saloon for Mr Campbell. He needs to get out there and play otherwise his career will wither away.
One of my best mates is a die hard evertonian, I've often asked about anichebe (as a potential target for us) and to quote him "he's absolutely ****e". Having seen him on a fair few occasions myself I tend to agree, he's big and strog but not much else, not what we need and we can definitely do better for the fee he'd probably cost.
Thinking about it, Anichebe is proabably the wrong type of player for what we need. his goal ration isn't great!
I don't think he's a great player, but he does play in the premier league where the standard of footballers there is better. A move down the leagues and he might be good. I agree about Campbell- he needs to think wisely about his options, especially when Fletcher and Sessignon are better options at the Mackems than him.
There's no confirmation from anyone in the club that they are after Campbell. So far it's just the Dull Daily who are reporting it.
Have to say it seems that `The Bruce` isn`t a guy to mess around with when it comes to signings, either FC commits to the cause or I believe SB will quickly move on. On the Anichebe front, when we were in the Prem last time round we were looking at getting him on loan and Anichebe was outspoken about wanting to come here, sadly it never materialised due to lack of personnel at the Toffees and them not getting in what they wanted, I seem to remember Anichebe being reprimanded because of his outspoken burst. I keep harping on about Steve MORISON at Naaarrrrich, getting limited game time in cups etc, would be an ideal accompanyment to this young and hungry squad. Failing that WOODS seems the obvious choice if not Anichebe.
I was thinking more along the lines of a foil for Aluko....Sone is the man to get 20+ goals this season, he just needs a big guy to lay/knock them down for him to smash in the back of the net.
Aluko gets plenty of the ball without a target man beside him. That clearly isn't the issue. Also people talking about goal ratios, it isn't the only important thing. Sometimes it's an indicator yes but often these things just change dramatically. Glen Murray has started scoring all of a sudden this season, Jamie Mackie did it a couple of years ago, Ross McCormack last season. Loads of players who haven't previously had good goal ratios start scoring all of a sudden and it can work the other way too. SB will be looking at the different qualities of any potential striker, not just how many he's scored.
We need a target man as a Plan B though and to play against the more physical defences. Aluko does get plenty of the ball without a target man but we're no threat from the air... Agreed about goal:game ratio, but we can't be taking gambles. We need someone who can fire us into the Premier League, rather than signing somebody who might be able to but might not. This Season we have to go up IMO.
I'd rather sack off Campbell now. He can't get games in a **** relegation threatened Sunderland side. I don't see many Premier League suitors if I'm honest. I would much rather sign a proven player from this league.
If he comes here and does well then he will see the PL again next season. If he sits on the bench for the rest of the season there, he will be seeing the championship next season. It is really up to him where he plays next in his career.
This thread came about because of what has been in the press and what Bruce has said (allegedly) so I don't get your "get over it" comment really.
Should Campbell join, score 15+ goals again, it would interesting to see how many of the, "GET OVER CAMPBELL" Brigade suddenly warm to him.
He'd be the one that I'd go for. I was saying to go for him last year when McLean was showing that he, as usual, wasn't going to have a prolific Season as a Tiger. He must want to get away from that ****e excuse for a Club... Premier League football could only be an hour away Davies...
This is in our paper today.. http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/tigers-still-keen-on-campbell-1-5224364 STEVE Bruce is waiting in the wings to take out-of-favour Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell to Hull City on loan in January, writes Graeme Anderson. But everything will depend on whether Sunderland are prepared to let the player go and whether Campbell would be prepared to drop down a division to the Championship. The 25-year-old was bought by Sunderland from Manchester United for £3.5million in 2009 when Bruce was Black Cats’ boss and the England Under-21 international was tipped for the top. But the injury-racked forward, now in the last year of his contract at the Stadium of Light, has yet to make a real first-team impact this season after overcoming a serious knee ligament injury sustained in August, 2010 which robbed him of 16 months of his career.
Yeah but for the first few games these twats will be waiting and wanting him to fail. The fact our own fans slate Proschwitz by calling him "the Kraut" when he comes on, sums up some City fans. I'd expect them to do the same even if both start having a rich vein of form.
What's wrong with calling him the kraut? It's only a name, not like they're saying he's ****. One game I listened to on blundersaard swanny kept calling him the foreigner.
Thats my worry too mate, people seemingly want Campbell to fail already, it comes over like that when you read some of the comments. If he's the top target then they are the ones needing 'to get over it' to quote that guy on this thread
My point is, some of our fans will want him to fail. In this case it's down to the transfer nonsense a few years ago. And he won't shake it off, unless he becomes top goal scorer. If you were Campbell, at his age, and an upcoming talent in football, you'd have gone to a bigger club who'd pay you more as well. There's no doubt about it. Fair enough, the Proschwitz example might have been a bad one to use.
