Craig Mackail-Smith

Log in to stop seeing adverts

Status
Not open for further replies.
Decent player, but IMO 4th prefered signing behind Yak, Nugent, and Maynard

If you have a 22+ man squad you have two players for every position. So unless Sven says CMS will be striker number 1, he might well be useful as striker number 4, as a different option, (the sometimes missing Plan B), coming off the bench with 15 minutes to go if we are chasing the game.
 
A friend of mine who knows a lot about what's going on at west ham reckons he is there today and will sign for them. He's not very happy about it.
 
From the Merc:

Posh director of football Barry Fry confirmed Mackail-Smith was now in talks with City.

"We have accepted a bid from Leicester," said Fry.

"Their manager Sven-Goran-Eriksson is out of the country at the moment, but was due to speak to Craig over the weekend.

"I have had several conversations with West Ham, but we have turned down their bid. I am certain they will be back.

"Craig is facing a tough decision. He turned down Norwich and he has now turned down QPR."
 
A friend of mine who knows a lot about what's going on at west ham reckons he is there today and will sign for them. He's not very happy about it.

Do you mean that your friend is unhappy or CMS?
 
If you have a 22+ man squad you have two players for every position. So unless Sven says CMS will be striker number 1, he might well be useful as striker number 4, as a different option, (the sometimes missing Plan B), coming off the bench with 15 minutes to go if we are chasing the game.

If we're paying ~£2m for our third or fourth choice striker, it's either going to be an expensive summer or Sven is utterly mad.
 
If we're paying ~£2m for our third or fourth choice striker, it's either going to be an expensive summer or Sven is utterly mad.
Not necessarily, he could bring in 3 or 4 better free players but feel the need for reasonable back up that he has to pay for.
 
If CMS has turned down moves to Norwich and QPR its more than likely because they didn't guarantee him a starting place. Do you really think he is going to come to us unless we make him that guarantee?
 
Hazz is probably referring to his spell at Dagenham & Redbridge

meh

Peterborough is fairly near Leicester. he wouldn't need to move house...

although I reckon Barry Fry is using our bid to get a higher bid from West Ham, they'll have the Parker and Parachute money to spend
 
turned down qpr and norwich? Wander why... I guess he wasn't convinced he had a great chance of first team football....?

I'm not convinced he's that great myself but apparently he's pretty quick and we all know Sven's number one preferred trait in most players is pace so it comes as no surprise that we are in for him in that respect.
 
turned down qpr and norwich? Wander why... I guess he wasn't convinced he had a great chance of first team football....?

I'm not convinced he's that great myself but apparently he's pretty quick and we all know Sven's number one preferred trait in most players is pace so it comes as no surprise that we are in for him in that respect.

He could feel lonely in Norwich might cloud his decision.
 
He could feel lonely in Norwich might cloud his decision.
I was going to make a retort to that but realised that it would be in very poor taste.



Oh, and just remembered that was Ipswich anyway!
 
He could feel lonely in Norwich might cloud his decision.

Apologies that I am clearly not as well educated as you. If that's your game maybe you should join FT. I'd imagine you'd have a field day over there. Perhaps you could even apply for a job as an English teacher. The point of this post being that if I ever needed to use the word wonder for something meaningful then I would obviously bother to double check it.
 
Apologies that I am clearly not as well educated as you. If that's your game maybe you should join FT. I'd imagine you'd have a field day over there. Perhaps you could even apply for a job as an English teacher. The point of this post being that if I ever needed to use the word wonder for something meaningful then I would obviously bother to double check it.

I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: 10
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, 20
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Log in to stop seeing adverts

Championship

P Pld Pts
1Leicester4697
2Ipswich4696
3Leeds Utd4690
4Southampton4687
5West Brom4675
6Norwich City4673
7Hull City4670
8Middlesbro4669
9Coventry City4664
10Preston 4663
11Bristol City4662
12Cardiff City4662
13Millwall4659
14Swansea City4657
15Watford4656
16Sunderland4656
17Stoke City4656
18QPR4656
19Blackburn 4653
20Sheffield W4653
21Plymouth 4651
22Birmingham4650
23Huddersfield4645
24Rotherham Utd4627

Latest posts

Top