I would be pissed off if we offloaded Beckford, I think he actually tries very hard the majority of the time, he's seriously grown on me since his disgraceful showing at Upton Park.
I would be pissed off if we offloaded Beckford, I think he actually tries very hard the majority of the time, he's seriously grown on me since his disgraceful showing at Upton Park.
I wasn't particularly impressive with KP when I've seen him play. Granted i've only seen 3 games this season - Millwall away, Burnley at home and West Ham at home. But he was far from 'great' in my opinion. I have been told he was pretty good earlier in the year (but I can't make an opinion on that)
Peltiers nothing special either. Average Championship player.
KP??? Kevin Pressman? Kermain Peckford? Kaul Ponchesky? Kandy Ping?
King Power?
I think the owners have let their money and power get to their heads too much if they've renamed a player to become the living embodiment of their company in an act of corpohumanisation. Too much!
Spot on Greggs. I have migrated from thinking Becks was an arrogant SOB to actually caring! Hope it goes to show you can’t always judge a book by it’s cover. Now I hope he stays because his link-up play with Nuge looks good. BTW did we find out who KP is???Will be really annoyed with Pearson if he offloads Beckford, especially if it's to a potential rival in this league. I think he's been our best striker in the second half of the season and has really knuckled down. Although he hasn't set the league alight, he has improved his scoring form and created a very decent partnership and understanding with Nugent. The sad thing is, I wouldn't be surprised if this did happen. If we do sell, this will be a big step back in my opinion, we saw how long it took him to settle and the same could apply to his replacement or they could flop altogether. The strikers we've been linked with so far, haven't exactly filled me with confidence either. They would have to make a major step up and it's a big punt.
I don't know how people can jump on his back and say he's potentially a bad influence in the dressing room, he seems to have a good rapport with the players and celebrates with them all when he scores, he hasn't said anything controversial to the media and made a nice gesture to Gally during the West Ham game. He's not got involved in any off field incidents like some of the Villa players either. Some people seem determined to hate him.
Sorry, - GregsSpot on Greggs. I have migrated from thinking Becks was an arrogant SOB to actually caring! Hope it goes to show you can’t always judge a book by it’s cover. Now I hope he stays because his link-up play with Nuge looks good. BTW did we find out who KP is???
You won't be far off. We've reached that point where the press invent stories about clubs like our's because we've stopped playing matches and they need to retain fans' interest.Nobody leaving or coming in would surprise.
Nobody "has to pay to watch them", people choose so to do. A stay away fan, who occasionally buys merchandise, rents Sky Sport and doesn't clutter up the stadium, is probably the preferred choice of football clubs so, be nice to me lesser mortal! :icon_bigg
As has been said, all these rumours are just paper talk. The only thing of interest, is how the press perceive Pearson. Letting go classy players to buy cheap (in both senses of the word {but not as in chicken!}) replacements.
The quality of a player is not dictated by his transfer fee. What would you call Ben Marshall? A 'cheap in both senses of the word' player? I'd call him the classiest player on our books at the minute. Just because we didn't spend around £5 million on him doesn't make him a cheap player - in fact £1 million is a fairly decent fee for a championship player and if you think many clubs can afford to be throwing around even that kind of money, you're mistaken.
Sven splashed out the best part of £10 million and where did it get us? Absolutely nowhere and lumbered with some highly paid failures. You criticise people for not seeing the faults of NP, but you seem to have permanent rose tinted spectacles on when it comes to SGE. With the money he spent, he should have won this league, anything else was unnacceptable - by the time he was sacked, we were more or less out of the title race and the owners had to do something.
Pearson has been brought in as an antithesis of Sven and surely will have been given marching orders to try to achieve promotion but at the same time get a grip of the finances..
I am not sure where this comes from but, if you are correct that promotion is no longer the over-riding aim, then I take back all that I have said: with a limited budget, Pearson is the right man to ensure that we stay reasonably well placed in the Championship.
I am not sure where this comes from but, if you are correct that promotion is no longer the over-riding aim, then I take back all that I have said: with a limited budget, Pearson is the right man to ensure that we stay reasonably well placed in the Championship.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Manchester C | 9 | 23 |
2 | Liverpool | 9 | 22 |
3 | Arsenal | 9 | 18 |
4 | Aston Villa | 9 | 18 |
5 | Chelsea | 9 | 17 |
6 | Brighton | 9 | 16 |
7 | Nottm F | 9 | 16 |
8 | Tottenham | 9 | 13 |
9 | Brentford | 9 | 13 |
10 | Fulham | 9 | 12 |
11 | Bournemouth | 9 | 12 |
12 | Newcastle | 9 | 12 |
13 | West Ham | 9 | 11 |
14 | Manchester U | 9 | 11 |
15 | Leicester | 9 | 9 |
16 | Everton | 9 | 9 |
17 | Palace | 9 | 6 |
18 | Ipswich | 9 | 4 |
19 | Wolves | 9 | 2 |
20 | Southampton | 9 | 1 |