West Ham bid £7mil for Bas Dost of Heerveneen..

[Bukowski]

Originally Posted by gipetto

Sorry but this lad looks a different class to Fletcher. I will be very surprised if the top clubs aren't in for him and I'll be even more surprised if he's worth only £7m!

Looks like a top player and would be a better signing than Fletcher. Persoanlly I think we should be in for both.

You have never seen him play.

And if you have it would have been a handful of times, or less, against awful opposition.

Running for chairman of the Fancy Name Brigade?

[Bishop Mackem]

I'd rather we signed fletcher

[fletcher]

from what i hear just a finisher, will find it tough

[godsgifttoearth]

Originally Posted by fletcher

from what i hear just a finisher, will find it tough

same was said about cisse.

its all darrent bent can do.

worth their weight in goals, especially to a team that can't finish from positions where its harder to miss than score.

[jimb]

Originally Posted by fletcher

from what i hear just a finisher, will find it tough

to be fair that hasnt stopped pap cisse having a good half season

[Bishop Mackem]

For every papiss cisse there are a lot more Afonso alves'.

We aren't in a position to be taking risks on players from a much lower quality of league. We have NO prolific or 10 goal strikers in our team ATM and we should be scouring the top leagues of Europe (England, Spain. Italy) for proven class.

[Bukowski]

At 7 million quid + a hefty contract over x amount of years + agents fees etc., I wouldn't touch him with a bargepole.

The Dutch league is an awful standard and few who come over here for large fees make the same impact they did in the Eredivisie: Samaras, Ruiz (so far), Alves to name a few. Far, far too much money to just 'take a punt' as the morons on here would love us to.

[godsgifttoearth]

Originally Posted by Bishop Mackem

For every papiss cisse there are a lot more Afonso alves'.

We aren't in a position to be taking risks on players from a much lower quality of league. We have NO prolific or 10 goal strikers in our team ATM and we should be scouring the top leagues of Europe (England, Spain. Italy) for proven class.

i agree in principle but for 7million we'd be stupid not to as he's scored at international level for the dutch. to even get in the dutch u21's you need to be half decent footballer.

if the figure it closer to say 15million which i think it would be, then i'd agree that with that 15million we'd be better off signing a couple of proven strikers in perhaps their last 2-3 yrs of useful career, and hope in that 2-3 yrs Ji, Wickham, Campbell can come good. or we pick up someone else.

[Seaham Towny]

Originally Posted by Bishop Mackem

For every papiss cisse there are a lot more Afonso alves'.

We aren't in a position to be taking risks on players from a much lower quality of league. We have NO prolific or 10 goal strikers in our team ATM and we should be scouring the top leagues of Europe (England, Spain. Italy) for proven class.

Don't have the funds to do the latter I'm afraid.

Name someone of proven class from those 3 leagues we could realistically sign?

[Bukowski]

Originally Posted by godsgifttoearth

i agree in principle but for 7million we'd be stupid not to as he's scored at international level for the dutch. to even get in the dutch u21's you need to be half decent footballer.

if the figure it closer to say 15million which i think it would be, then i'd agree that with that 15million we'd be better off signing a couple of proven strikers in perhaps they're last 2-3 yrs of useful career, and hope in that 2-3 yrs Ji, Wickham, Campbell can come good. or we pick up someone else.

That's way too much money to just go pissing up the wall on totally unproven players. We need to learn from our recent mistakes, ones that people are still moaning about and yet pining for more and more money to be spent on untested footballers.