Notts F reported to offer £1m DMG

[Singeon Sears]

For me McGoldrick was one of three of the younger players who improved through the season and impressed me. The others being James and Gillett.

 

I reckon McGoldrick could potentually go the furthest of all of the youngsters still at the club that played last year. Yeah he looks lazy but he has a quality first touch and knows where the goal is.

[sidthesquid]

http://www.thisisnottinghamforest.co.uk/news/Forest-bid-1m-striker/article-1037819-detail/article.html

 

Hope we decline.

 

We've been declining for years. I was hoping things might improve

[InvictaSaint]

He has domestic situation back in Nottingham and I feel he wants back to that part of the world...His career also in a higher league will be important....Anything over a million will be a good deal for Saints.

 

True, OSM, but the same domestic "situation" clearly did not prevent McGoldrick from signing a new contract only last October.....

[NickG]

I can appreciate both sides of the argument on here, but let's face it, David McGoldrick is an enigma.

 

Whilst celebrating a goal, he'll have you believe that he would do anything for the club. For the other 89 minutes that he spends waddling around (after all, he seems to have a bit of an odd body shape for a footballer?) he just looks lazy and dis-interested.

 

To sum it up, he's a luxury player. He'll play most of the game on cruise control, but it likely to pop up with a goal. Depending on the makeup of our team next season, we can't really afford someone like that in League One.

 

If you take into consideration the fact that he wants to go back to his hometown, a £1m offer should be a no-brainer for the club.

 

describes a lot/ most decent forwards!

[Neil]

I think a motivated DMG could get loads of goals in Division 3 so for that reason I'd rather keep him than bank £1m (obviously that's dependent on Wotte being terminated).

[musesaint]

Isn't the real point here that McG thinks he's too good for league 1 ?

 

Whether he's right or not is academic ..he'll be off

[docker-p]

I can not believe so many on here bigging up McG. What was his score ratio from the spot? Bread and butter for a striker you would have thought. How many times was he one on one with a keeper and failed to score? He's slow, lazy, and wants to leave anyway. One million? Yes please.

[Saints foreva]

http://www.forest.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=156220

 

They're also signing Surman..

 

The deal of the summer for Forest fans could be that of Southampton midfielder Andrew Surman. The 22 year old is certain to leave St. Mary's and we believe that's he's as good as a Forest player already.

 

I love how both the Newcastle and Forest artical have tried to make Surman sound like some sort of 'star'

[OldNick]

I can appreciate both sides of the argument on here, but let's face it, David McGoldrick is an enigma.

 

Whilst celebrating a goal, he'll have you believe that he would do anything for the club. For the other 89 minutes that he spends waddling around (after all, he seems to have a bit of an odd body shape for a footballer?) he just looks lazy and dis-interested.

 

To sum it up, he's a luxury player. He'll play most of the game on cruise control, but it likely to pop up with a goal. Depending on the makeup of our team next season, we can't really afford someone like that in League One.

 

If you take into consideration the fact that he wants to go back to his hometown, a £1m offer should be a no-brainer for the club.

souinds like Pahars, kissed the badge when he scored did very little else apart from score, Jimmy Greaves and Linaker did little except score.Now DMG is not one of them at present but do not believe those 2 were prolific in their early days.

Unless we get 2m we will be shortchanged, even then we would only get back in 1.5 m of which only a proportion would be free to spend and you wont get much for that.

[ottery st mary]

True, OSM, but the same domestic "situation" clearly did not prevent McGoldrick from signing a new contract only last October.....

 

I agree but then again he was a Lowey Luvvie at the time of signing the contract...To be fair to Rupes if we get enough money for him a long contract was a good idea. Promising and then playing him in every game may have lost us more points than gained. But that is my opinion and I was wrong once before.

[.comsaint]

I can not believe so many on here bigging up McG. What was his score ratio from the spot? Bread and butter for a striker you would have thought. How many times was he one on one with a keeper and failed to score? He's slow, lazy, and wants to leave anyway. One million? Yes please.

 

Agree entirely.

[BotleySaint]

Ok so he's not a penalty taker. But how many goals has he scored out of nothing? A fair few last year I reckon. Which is important in a team that has no creativity.

[DT]

souinds like Pahars, kissed the badge when he scored did very little else apart from score, Jimmy Greaves and Linaker did little except score.Now DMG is not one of them at present but do not believe those 2 were prolific in their early days.

Unless we get 2m we will be shortchanged, even then we would only get back in 1.5 m of which only a proportion would be free to spend and you wont get much for that.

Well, you might get a player who knows how to kick a football, is not a lazy billy big boots and contributes a little to actual team play. But hey, we could hold on to him and watch his sulks/I love my torso celebrations for another year...

My car available for driving him up etc

[Arizona]

£1m (or less) in the past has been spent on Andrew Davies, Kelvin Davis (okay, that was £1.2m), James Beattie, Marian Pahars, Claus Lundekvam, Marek Saganowski, Stern John and Anders Svensson. All of whom were, at the time, much better players than DMG. 21 isn't all THAT young and scoring 10 goals from open play, starting all but one League matches last season isn't overly impressive either.

 

I don't want him to leave, but I'd take £1m for him any day of the week.

[St Marco]

Having seen all but 6 games last year i think im in an ok position to judge DMG's performances. The reality is for majority of the season we played with just him up front. He had the most shots in the league by far and barely made it to the top 25 list with 12 goals. Of which if i remember right 2 or 3 were penalties. He even missed a couple too.

At the start of the season he was very poor in my book. However as the season progressed especially towards the latter half he started to improve.

Now for me i don't rate DMG as highly as say nick does. But the lad could do a job for us in division three. He is not prem league material and barely ccc material. He has played in division 3 before and didn't do so well but is older now and hopefully more wiser.

But what worries me is he is not prolific, he is a big waster of the ball. In the 3rd division we are going to need people who can score goals at a lot higher ratio. The whole team will need to help out more then they did this season with goals.

We are going to be the team all the other clubs will want to beat next year, it will be very physical and very difficult for strikers. If we look at Leicester they had players like Howard and Fryatt. Very physical players but more importantly football brained players.

 

So if i had to choose i would rather someone who is more experienced and more clever then DMG. If we could get Dexter back then i would sell him.

[OldNick]

Well, you might get a player who knows how to kick a football, is not a lazy billy big boots and contributes a little to actual team play. But hey, we could hold on to him and watch his sulks/I love my torso celebrations for another year...

My car available for driving him up etc

DT you know what i think of your opinions of footballers abilities after your bits about KD. I assume you want him gone as well! In fact that is not a question as i know you would

[70's Mike]

good news 3 pages of a thread without lowe,wilde and crouch or board room politics

[DT]

DT you know what i think of your opinions of footballers abilities after your bits about KD. I assume you want him gone as well! In fact that is not a question as i know you would

Are you sure you've got the right fella because last time you seemed to think I'd been slagging off Mr Jackson? Didn't see any retraction...

As to the Davis question, I think he's well suited to League One, so we should keep him until we get promoted.

PS if you think we'll get £2m for McG your opinions on football/economics/the real world just went down a few leagues in my mind's table of posters too.

Now put some more oil on Kelvin's back and lie back in the lounger - it's a beautiful day and we might still have a club!

[The Mac Attack]

I can't believe, literally cannot believe that some people would be so glad to see him go. Do you know anything about football?!?!?! He was good last season playing for one of the worst sides in the league, with a massive weight on him when playing as the lone striker and still managed to get 10+ goals. That imo is a very good return. 1mill is cheap.

 

Comments like the above make me question your mental stability....perhaps you should be locked up with SuBo for a few days.

 

He was playing for one of the worst sides in the league...correct and he was certainly liable for a percentage of that. Terrible first touch and his second is not much better. He got ten goals and started a lot of games.....

[wild-saint]

Comments like the above make me question your mental stability....perhaps you should be locked up with SuBo for a few days.

 

He was playing for one of the worst sides in the league...correct and he was certainly liable for a percentage of that. Terrible first touch and his second is not much better. He got ten goals and started a lot of games.....

 

I agreed with the first poster he is underated. I certainly dont agree with you assesment of his first and second touch. IMO that was a positive attrbute to his game IMO.

[The Mac Attack]

I guess we will have to beg to differ because i currently rate him at £999,999.99 less than what forest, you and the SuBo alike rate him at.

[DT]

I agreed with the first poster he is underated. I certainly dont agree with you assesment of his first and second touch. IMO that was a positive attrbute to his game IMO.

His eighth touch, however, is immaculate.

[OldNick]

Are you sure you've got the right fella because last time you seemed to think I'd been slagging off Mr Jackson? Didn't see any retraction...

As to the Davis question, I think he's well suited to League One, so we should keep him until we get promoted.

PS if you think we'll get £2m for McG your opinions on football/economics/the real world just went down a few leagues in my mind's table of posters too.

Now put some more oil on Kelvin's back and lie back in the lounger - it's a beautiful day and we might still have a club!

for us to get a decent fee for him 2m will be required I would have thought.To take £1m less the add ons and it is not much for him.Did he score more than Earnshaw last season?

[Lets B Avenue]

souinds like Pahars, kissed the badge when he scored did very little else apart from score, Jimmy Greaves and Linaker did little except score.Now DMG is not one of them at present but do not believe those 2 were prolific in their early days.

Unless we get 2m we will be shortchanged, even then we would only get back in 1.5 m of which only a proportion would be free to spend and you wont get much for that.

 

Not prolific in their early years? Really, Nick. I think the events of the past week have had an adverse effect on your grey-matter. and that you would be well advised to take a complete break from this board. Go on holiday without your laptop and steer well clear of internet cafes.

 

Before you make such ridiculous and exaggerated claims about a very ordinary player (IMHO of course) do yourself a favour and check out Messers Greaves and Lineker on wikipedia. Especially Greaves!

[egreog]

Has he gone yet?........he may succeed under new management.......... somehow I doubt it............best rid of

[Toadhall Saint]

Not prolific in their early years? Really, Nick. I think the events of the past week have had an adverse effect on your grey-matter. and that you would be well advised to take a complete break from this board. Go on holiday without your laptop and steer well clear of internet cafes.

 

Before you make such ridiculous and exaggerated claims about a very ordinary player (IMHO of course) do yourself a favour and check out Messers Greaves and Lineker on wikipedia. Especially Greaves!

 

Never mention DMG in the same sentence/paragraph/book as Greaves (or Lineker for that matter).

[HertsSaint]

This thread totally encapsulates how people see football completely differently.

 

For what it's worth, I think he's cack. Too heavy, too lazy and should have got more goals this season.

[offix]

Just think what a great manager 1 million could buy us. Do the deal!

[dubai_phil]

The fans argue on the forum but moan if a DoF would be in place to give an opinion to the manager - mildly ironic. But it's a forum so it's fair.

 

My view who could we BUY for the 1 mil at or below his wages.

 

IF we have an answer that says XYZ is a better player than DMG then take the money on offer.

 

IF we have an answer that says there is nobody who could do the same job as him in League 1 for the same or less money then no, keep him. Personally I think he would be a useful player alongside a PROPER centre forward, but hell what do I know I only listen

 

He is still very young in footballing terms, Ashley Young he ain't but he may be the best we have next year

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

Dear Mr Davies. Please ignore any of the derogatory comments about Dave "better than Le Tiss" McGoldrick on this thread and on the forum in general. He's absolutely fantastic and just the man to fire you to the Prem. I can't believe how much of a steal you're getting for the measly £1million you're offering us.

 

By the way, we take cash, cheques, direct debit, PayPal, banker's draft, postal orders, stamps and/or premium bonds. Don't hang around, you wouldn't want to miss out.

[NickG]

bet you wouldn't take Kenwyne Jones back either!