Rickie Lambert? Money Well Spent.

[georgeweahscousin]

He might have missed out on the player of the month award, but I and fans of Rochdale and Bristol Rovers pay tribute to the prolific striker here:- http://wp.me/p1mFFL-bA

[Saint_clark]

Remember the Huddersfield chairman saying he wasn't value for money? LOL.

[Raging Bull]

Moeny very well spent, just having his name on the team sheet gives defenders a headache.

[Raging Bull]

Remember the Huddersfield chairman saying he wasn't value for money? LOL.

 

Yeah and his celebration when he scored against them at SMS was to point at the name on his back. That'll learn them.

[The Kraken]

6 foot 1?

[Thedelldays]

great article.

 

lambert is a great great player

[STEVEADAMS]

Has been a great signing for all involved and obviously benefitted from our team behind the scenes. What's more he looks totally at home, enjoying football and life at Southampton and seems like a thoroughly decent down to earth guy which endears him to the fans as well. Well done Rickie and Saints and long may it continue.

[The9]

6 foot 1?

 

He's actually about 6' 2" Rickie, Rickie...

 

...There's no apostrophe in "gets", he's not that tall so er, cool your jets,

Rickie Lambert, still a bit slow, for me...

 

Edited 7 October, 2011 by The9

[saints_is_the_south]

£1m for a goal scorer of his calibre in this day and age is great business. Would love to see him banging them in, in the prem this time next year.

[Badger]

He might have missed out on the player of the month award, but I and fans of Rochdale and Bristol Rovers pay tribute to the prolific striker here:- http://wp.me/p1mFFL-bA

 

Whom has he missed out to?

 

I think he deserves it

[georgeweahscousin]

Matt Bates from Middlesbrough.

[DanW]

Thanks for that - it was a good read and educational too.

 

How much would Southampton fans require to sell him off? I'm not going to do the dumb and blind "he's priceless!" because that's not true. You'd sell him for 50 million for sure, which means he's not priceless. So if Alex Ox-Chamberlain is worth 12 million, I'd say that to the Saints right now... Rickie is probably worth about the same. Maybe 10 million. Anything higher and we should definitely take it.

[skintsaint]

Rickie is probably worth about the same. Maybe 10 million.

 

lol

[peacey]

Promoting your site again i see Mr chris Rann........Very good read though fella, well done

[pap]

I give it a couple of thumbs up, cheers Chris.

[captain sensible]

Noticed a rumour that Pardew will table a £5mill offer in January.

[Saint_clark]

Reading through it again, i'd suggest you overuse the comma a little. But it's always an enjoyable read.

[georgeweahscousin]

Reading through it again, i'd suggest you overuse the comma a little. But it's always an enjoyable read.

 

I will try to us it less, in future.

[sammysaint]

Im a thinking with Lambert you know every pen is gonna be a goal and even if he doest score, he would of been involved in the the build up for a goal, and doing it in the championship this season is going to spark a few prem teams like NUFC to bid 4/5 mill for him and offer him prem and maybe uefa cup football, i think he would stay as we look good to make at least the playoffs.

[Cabrone]

For me, Rickie jostles with Case, Killer, Deano and Niemi as one of our best signings of the last 30 years.

[SuperSAINT]

He might have missed out on the player of the month award, but I and fans of Rochdale and Bristol Rovers pay tribute to the prolific striker here:- http://wp.me/p1mFFL-bA

 

That was a good read, cheers for posting that.

 

Remember the Huddersfield chairman saying he wasn't value for money? LOL.

 

I do indeed! - I also remember a snippet from Pards at the time that Rickie wasn't the initial striker he targeted.

[Monk]

GWC.

 

Yet again another very good read, keep it.

[sidthesquid]

Reading through it again, i'd suggest you overuse the comma a little. But it's always an enjoyable read.

 

As it's pedantry corner time, I'd suggest you overuse 'i' instead of 'I.'

Edited 9 October, 2011 by sidthesquid
beating the pedants to a spelling mistake

[corsacar saint]

Rickie has been great for us,the club have been great for him.

[davefizzy14]

Rickie is immense, such a class act

[Channon's Sideburns]

I told you we should buy him...about a year before we did.

 

Stroke of luck that happened in the end, but I was bloody right.

[Fan The Flames]

If you got 5 points for a Prem goal, 3 for Championship, 2 for League 1 and 1 for League 2. I would guess that Rickie would be top of a Points/£ table.

[mesaint]

If OC is worth £12mil, then right now Rickie is worth £15mil. OC might make it but it was imho a gamble to pay that much for a boy who hadn't played outside of league 1. I know Rickie hadn't either until this season but he's been the league 1 top scorer for the past two seasons. Anyhow, we don't want to sell him so pardue can feck off.

[The9]

If OC is worth £12mil, then right now Rickie is worth £15mil. OC might make it but it was imho a gamble to pay that much for a boy who hadn't played outside of league 1. I know Rickie hadn't either until this season but he's been the league 1 top scorer for the past two seasons. Anyhow, we don't want to sell him so pardue can feck off.

 

Fine logic, the near 30 year old with no top level experience in 10 years of football and no resale value is clearly worth more than one of the country's brightest young stars who has already scored in the Champions League in one of his few appearances at that level and has a ton of untapped potential.

[Macey_J2]

Nice article Chris, an enjoyable read. But i'm in the "he stands at nearly 6 foot 3" camp!