Stevo the Villan
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I dare say £5m more or thereabouts would buy you Benteke if he wants to leave us.
Good business West Ham...
Good business West Ham...
Stevo the Villan said:I dare say £5m more or thereabouts would buy you Benteke if he wants to leave us.
Good business West Ham...
Sorry, I wasn't trying to say you should buy Benteke. You're righ, he wouldn't go for you.Dokaka said:Stevo the Villan said:I dare say £5m more or thereabouts would buy you Benteke if he wants to leave us.
Good business West Ham...
We're not going to sign someone who's linked to top clubs. Why would he join us anyway?
Stevo the Villan said:Sorry, I wasn't trying to say you should buy Benteke. You're righ, he wouldn't go for you.Dokaka said:Stevo the Villan said:I dare say £5m more or thereabouts would buy you Benteke if he wants to leave us.
Good business West Ham...
We're not going to sign someone who's linked to top clubs. Why would he join us anyway?
I was just making the point that if he were to leave us, he'd probably go for not too much more than the £15m you're apparently paying for Carrol.
Which seems mad given the gulf in talent between them. IMO of course.
leo_ense said:Carroll is not a great player.
THunter said:But he can head the ball leo.
Good point actually.Dokaka said:THunter said:But he can head the ball leo.
An attribute just as important for our strikers as passing is for your CMs
Dokaka said:leo_ense said:Carroll is not a great player.
Best target man in the league.
GDeep said:Carroll is better than any CF on our books.
For West Ham, this is close to an insane signing.
leo_ense said:Dokaka said:leo_ense said:Carroll is not a great player.
Best target man in the league.
Based on what? Benteke is the best target man in the league by some distance.
Cudareli said:This is ridiculous.
Dokaka you know a lot about football and I have a lot of respect for you as a poster, but once you start talking about anything West Ham related you completely lose it.
We got into a heated argument early in the season when you spoke about Jarvis like he was David ******* Beckham, now you are pumping Andy Carroll up to be something that he is not. 7 goals and 4 assists in 26 games this season for a team that plays to his style is not a good return, regardless of how you dress it up.
Did you ever rate Emile Heskey when he wasn't scoring but was playing for England?
Dokaka said:Cudareli said:This is ridiculous.
Dokaka you know a lot about football and I have a lot of respect for you as a poster, but once you start talking about anything West Ham related you completely lose it.
I really don't. I rate Reid and Carroll because I see them play every week and their on an entirely different level than the rest of the squad, including Diamé and Nolan.
I do not rate Noble, Collison, Tomkins, O'Brien, Demel, O'Neil, Vaz Te, Cole, Maiga, C. Cole, Taylor, Collins and so on. They're all ******* **** to average, some with more potential than others obviously.
We got into a heated argument early in the season when you spoke about Jarvis like he was David ******* Beckham, now you are pumping Andy Carroll up to be something that he is not. 7 goals and 4 assists in 26 games this season for a team that plays to his style is not a good return, regardless of how you dress it up.
Again, for the last time, what I said is that Jarvis had the highest cross completion % in the league playing for Wolves, a stat he has kept up (from what I know, not sure).
I never said he was a brilliant player. I never said he was a massive threat going forward. I said he's a good winger who will provide great crosses for our forwards and midfield to latch on to, which he has done brilliantly towards the end of the season.
I was simply stating fact. Jarvis is a great crosser of the ball, anyone disputing that are idiots, honestly. What people don't seem to understand is that our crosses don't always hit a storming striker who's going to head it in - rarely does that happen. Our crosses hit a target man whose job it is to knock it on/down to a teammate, something Andy Carroll as absolutely brilliant at.
Did you ever rate Emile Heskey when he wasn't scoring but was playing for England?
A bit. I understood the thought at least. Heskey was never that good though.
Cudareli said:Let's also not forget that you spent most of this season trying to convince people that West Ham don't play the direct football that people were accusing them of. Now that you've signed Carroll though, you are saying otherwise.