the reason we bought Lee and Sharp.

[david in sweden]

.must surely be obvious to even the most critical contributor (and there are a few of them) in the light of recent games.

 

Lambert (hopefully).... might be fit enought to see out the season.

Lee (sadly) had a freak injury which needed surgery - out for 4-6 months?

Barnard (if fully fit ?)....hasn't shown a spark of his last season's form ..yet...

Connolly ..still injured. Date of return - unkown ?

Sharp...still finding his feet, but did score twice last week ..(has everyone forgotten that already ?)

Guly ..surely the most in and out player of the season. One week he plays like a BRAZILIAN, the next ...like GODZILLA ! When the sun starts shining ....he'll start scoring again!

 

Having said that...any one of them fit enough to play on saturday... might score a hat-trick!

 

any other names worthy of recognition - please apply.

[Jack]

Because you need a few fit strikers for a promotion run-in? Yep, that makes sense.

 

Next...

[Thedelldays]

to add a couple of decent strikers to the club..?

 

dunno

[Danbert]

I don't actually remember anyone thinking we didn't need to bring a couple of new faces in over Christmas (though I'm sure you can dig up a post to prove me wrong) yawn.

[landford.saint]

Could someone please update me on Lee's injury and prognosis.

[CB Fry]

All I can remember from January David was you saying "there can be little doubt that the club will spend thirty to forty million" in the last transfer window. And funnily enough spent nowhere near that.

[Window Cleaner]

All I can remember from January David was you saying "there can be little doubt that the club will spend thirty to forty million" in the last transfer window. And funnily enough spent nowhere near that.

 

30 or 40 quid more like. Anyone who thought that we'd spend another big wodge of money with our accounts as they are is royally deluded. We couldn't get Hooper so we got a cardboard cut-out of him in Sharp.

[Saint Troy]

to be fair there was a very recent "what was the point in buying sharp" thread. The injury situation made me think of that recent thread, not everyone on there thought it was obvious why we needed him (although maybe they had seen him practising penalties)

[Norm]

30 or 40 quid more like. Anyone who thought that we'd spend another big wodge of money with our accounts as they are is royally deluded. We couldn't get Hooper so we got a cardboard cut-out of him in Sharp.

 

Tad harsh? I thought the reason we didn't get Hooper was because he didn't want to leave Celtic. Perhaps I'm 100% wrong.

[Window Cleaner]

Tad harsh? I thought the reason we didn't get Hooper was because he didn't want to leave Celtic. Perhaps I'm 100% wrong.

 

He'd have wanted to if Celtic said the price was right and he could leave I suspect.

I may well be proved wrong by Billy Sharp in the near future but to me he adds nothing much,Barnard at 15 times the price.

 

NB we didn't buy Lee, he was a free transfer but it would seem that we pay him quite handsomely.

Edited 1 April, 2012 by Window Cleaner

[david in sweden]

All I can remember from January David was you saying "there can be little doubt that the club will spend thirty to forty million" in the last transfer window. And funnily enough spent nowhere near that.

 

it seems that the £30 million ..went to pay off the debt, or convert them to shares, or whatever " financial side-stepping " they did.

 

I get rather confused by the media telling us we are the third richest club in the League (or whatever it was), however, I did write that on the basis of that sort of info. Whilst I admit I wrote those figs. at the time I don't think I actually said that we would spend £30 million on players in January - did I ? My original thought was that a lot of that would go on the much-vaunted expenditure of the training ground (which many others were calling a " bluff " at the time) and has since been approved, and then having signed two strikers for less than £2 million, I was pleased and surprised at such a low outlay, when I expected a big sum to be laid out on the likes of Hooper, or Rodrigues.

 

HOWEVER, I am (surely) not alone in stating that I don't think that a considerable number of the present squad are likely to see a Premiership career with Saints - do you ? We already have around a dozen on long term contracts, so I do expect to see big money spent on at least 2 or 3 top class players...whether or not that will run up to £20 million or not... I don't know.

But with Cortese's deals - who knows WHO we might get on a " free " next season.

[Cestrian Saint]

I think we bought them as they'll be needed for next season in the Championship.

[st.sj]

thought it was a stupid question then, think it is still a stupid question. Well done Sharp

[david in sweden]

.....today showed another TWO reasons that we bought Billy Sharp.

 

Maybe not pretty or skilful... in the same way as Lallana or Lambert, but worth a point today.

[david in sweden]

......and if you needed more convincing ..since Billy got his first goal...(Burnley game)

 

Billy has scored 7 times in 9 starts, and Lambert 's got 11 in 14 games... ENOUGH ?

 

..... " this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship "...........

Edited 18 April, 2012 by david in sweden

[Thedelldays]

I think we bought them as they'll be needed for next season in the Championship.

yep...spot on

[The9]

Tadanari Lee's blog seems to (dodgy translation) indicate that he had a hand injury that needed surgery, necessitating 6 weeks recovery, and that he will be fit by the middle of May, it's only the timing of the close season that means his next match will be August.

[gazzzza]

Tadanari Lee's blog seems to (dodgy translation) indicate that he had a hand injury that needed surgery, necessitating 6 weeks recovery, and that he will be fit by the middle of May, it's only the timing of the close season that means his next match will be August.

OMG not a hand injury

[Saint Garrett]

OMG not a hand injury

 

[Whitey Grandad]

Tadanari Lee's blog seems to (dodgy translation) indicate that he had a hand injury that needed surgery, necessitating 6 weeks recovery, and that he will be fit by the middle of May, it's only the timing of the close season that means his next match will be August.

 

Maybe he just said that he liked karate and it got mistranslated?

[captain sensible]

The reason we bought Lee is that he is also another attacking option. He may not be as good as Rickie in the air, but he moves like $hit off a stick when presented with a through ball. You need that option, especially if everything down the flanks is being dealt with by a big centre half. Might have been a different story with Lee against Reading.

[sotonjoe]

Isn't it simply that they score goals?

[david in sweden]

Tadanari Lee's blog seems to (dodgy translation) indicate that he had a hand injury that needed surgery, necessitating 6 weeks recovery, and that he will be fit by the middle of May, it's only the timing of the close season that means his next match will be August.

 

 

perhaps there's something lost in translation....and he doesn't know his hand from his ...foot !

[david in sweden]

Isn't it simply that they score goals?

 

if only it were so simple.

there are a couple of dozens on this site who said Billy was a waste of money... and not good enough for a top side (like ours).

[lettuce]

It's so we can have Lee Sharp in the starting XI

[sotonjoe]

if only it were so simple.

there are a couple of dozens on this site who said Billy was a waste of money... and not good enough for a top side (like ours).

 

I know there are, but he's still scored six goals in six games apparently.