Fletcher Bid Accepted ?

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Because of the fee paid, 10 goals a season will not cut it anymore.

For a team like us to spend that sort of money, he will need to be scoring close to the 20 goal a season mark to justify the money spent.

Apart from the obvious, paying over the odds comes back to bite you in the arse in many ways, mainly re-sale value. Unless something out of the ordinary happens and he turns into some sort of star, we are also going to lose a good few million when it is time to move him on as well.

How many forwards got 20 goals last season though, 20 goal a season men are like goldust. If he gets 15 it will be money well spent.
 
With the service we should provide, bearing in mind we scored only 2 headers all season and one of those was from wes, i think i'd put money on it tbh, plus if this deal is in fact done, then we should expect his other targets to start to follow

Wolves had more successful crosses than you last year though.
 
Because of the fee paid, 10 goals a season will not cut it anymore.

For a team like us to spend that sort of money, he will need to be scoring close to the 20 goal a season mark to justify the money spent.

Apart from the obvious, paying over the odds comes back to bite you in the arse in many ways, mainly re-sale value. Unless something out of the ordinary happens and he turns into some sort of star, we are also going to lose a good few million when it is time to move him on as well.

The BIGGEST bite on the arse, is other targets.

They will have seen this play out, and will see us as fair game to be ****ed over on anyone we go in for.

When you think we didn't even attempt to get Pogrebnyak, who was outstanding for Fulham, it's an extraordinary fee.

That said, I'd sooner we paid the money for a proven goalscorer than get nobody, he will get around 15, no doubting that.

Hopefully a few more, and we can forget the fee.
 
Put it this way, If we have a warchest of say £30m, then we have spent half already.

So hypathetically, this would leave only 16m to get the three or four others we seriously need.

......Unless, of course, we ship out an additional 10m worth of cast-offs ????


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That's because Bendtner was never in the box marra, the amount of superb deliveries from Mc & Seb that nobody was central for was criminal.

Wolves had the most successful crosses out of anyone in the league though, you were 7th I believe. I want to know where in gods name Fletcher was!
 
You say that now, if it's true then everyone will try to screw us over when we try to by a player

I see your point and how this 'negotiation' could be seen as a weakness, however, fletcher has clearly been our number one target and its obvious poxy has held out, fair play, if other reports are true and we get defoe aswell for £7.5m or whatever is being brandished then we have replaced bent & gyan combined fees of £37m for £21.5m decent business
 
Wolves had the most successful crosses out of anyone in the league though, you were 7th I believe. I want to know where in gods name Fletcher was!

Fletcher had one of the the highest chance conversions AND the most headed goals in the league last season.

Maybe Wolves crosses were so accurate because of his positional play?

He will thrive on Seb & Mc, Jarvis is a great crosser, by all accounts, but Hunt on the other side, not so much.
 
Fletcher had one of the the highest chance conversions AND the most headed goals in the league last season.

Maybe Wolves crosses were so accurate because of his positional play?

He will thrive on Seb & Mc, Jarvis is a great crosser, by all accounts, but Hunt on the other side, not so much.

Surely they weren't to Fletcher though otherwise his chance conversion wouldn't be so high?

I rate Hunt! Decent crosser of the ball IMO.
 
Surely they weren't to Fletcher though otherwise his chance conversion wouldn't be so high?

I rate Hunt! Decent crosser of the ball IMO.

Hunt's not a bad player, but he's not close to the other 3 IMO.

Surely, you can see the logic in Bendtner being out of position lowering our accuracy %?

Add to that that we don't always go down the wings, as we tend to play through Sess, that stat can be bent anyway you want to.

Anyone with eyes knows that Seb is close to the leagues best crossers, & McLean is not a million miles behind.
 
Hunt's not a bad player, but he's not close to the other 3 IMO.

Surely, you can see the logic in Bendtner being out of position lowering our accuracy %?

Add to that that we don't always go down the wings, as we tend to play through Sess, that stat can be bent anyway you want to.

Anyone with eyes knows that Seb is close to the leagues best crossers, & McLean is not a million miles behind.

I see your point but I still think if Fletcher should have got on the end of more of those crosses and scored more.

I dont agree that you're THAT much better an attacking force than Wolves and even if you were it still doesn't mean that because Fletcher scored 12 for Wolves he'll get more for you. Look at Torres! <yikes>
 
I see your point but I still think if Fletcher should have got on the end of more of those crosses and scored more.

I dont agree that you're THAT much better an attacking force than Wolves and even if you were it still doesn't mean that because Fletcher scored 12 for Wolves he'll get more for you. Look at Torres! <yikes>

I agree with that mate, I know there's no guarantee on that score, but I'm confident he'll do the business.

Time will tell ;)
 
Sorry for this and please don't take it as WUMing, but that's a crazy price, if it's accurate.
You could probably buy Bendtner and Defoe for that, if you assume that the media's vaguely accurate on their valuations (£4m and £9m, respectively).
You'd be paying out more in wages, without a doubt, but you'd have a far more potent strikeforce and two players that would actually complement each other.