Newcastle are a pretty big club Bidders and can certainly offer more money than we can. He has probably seen their league position and thinks he can be playing European football next season. Also I think the only position the big six don't need to splash out on is a striker.
Liverpool? Arsenal surely would've had him instead of Gervinho? Spurs seem to sign players if they need them or not? I'm not saying we're bigger than Newcastle, nothing of the sort, I'm just saying if he was going to be world class and a 20-a-season striker then surely the Geordies would've had a fight on their hands. It's no secret that that kind of striker is a big, big commodity in the modern game.
Daglish is determined to make Carroll into a success and will stick by him, Suarez will also be unanimous first choice when back from his ban, they also have Kuyt too. Arsenal signed Henry and of course have RVP and Chamakh in that department as well as Walcott and Gervinho who can play there. Spurs have too many strikers if anything with Adebayor, Defoe and Pavyluchenko vying for the lone role up front. Who is to say Newcastle didn't fend off interest from other clubs? I remember we were in for him in the summer, as were probably a few other teams. The fact he plays for Freiburg and not Bayern or Dortmund may have put suitors off him I don't know.
I'm just saying all those clubs would genuinely have had a stab at signing him last summer (with the exception of Liverpool, who may have had a look this window) when apparently he had a better rep if he was as brilliant as he's being made out to be. I realise all this is making me sound like I think he's pants - I don't.
Bidders there are countless examples of players like Cisse, take Dempsey for example, an absolute quality player who could probably get a place in any of the teams in the league, yet we were the only people in for him. Doesn't mean he isn't any good though.
To be fair, Bandy, Dempsey now is a much better player than Dempsey when we signed him. He's developed his game, steadily improving year on year to the point where he is today. If Dempsey as he is today was on the market, then I would be surprised (and delighted) if we managed to get him. I'm not sure he'd be a regular starter at the top clubs, mind you.
I'm not so sure Cappy, Dempsey can play central midfield, on the right, left, behind the striker and as the striker either lone or alongside someone else. The guy is more versatile than Bairdy. Surely he could fill at least one of those positions at a top six club?
Okay, to take one example, who would you leave out of Spurs to accomodate him? Not Modric or Parker in the centre, not Bale or Lennon out wide, not Van der Vaart behind the striker, not Agbonlahor up front. You could go through the other teams and repeat a similar exercise. In some cases you could make a case for him starting a fair number of games, but in most he'd be looking at starting from the bench at best. He's not the answer to the particular problems that Man Utd, Arsenal or Chelsea are having, and the situation at City would be similar to Spurs. I'm not knocking Dempsey, he's been great for us. I just don't think he'd necessarily walk into the starting eleven of the top sides.
Harry would obviously look to drop one of them to slot in Dembele, I don't think he would be willing to spend upwards of £10 million on a player who wasn't going to play. So they're not all untouchable.
Whoops! Yes, Dempsey would get a striker's place ahead of Agbonlahor. My granny would get a striker's place ahead of Agbonlahor, and she's been dead for 15 years. My point about Adebayor stands though.
But he's a completely different type of player to Modric. Modric is perhaps the best playmaker in the league; if Dempsey isn't the right man to fill Danny Murphy's shoes (and no one here, to my best memory, has ever claimed he is), then he couldn't take Modric's place either. He's a different type of player to Bale to, but at least he can play in the same position. I just don't see it, Bandy.
