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Fair enough .

He is probably our most supported player. If anything people have been too lenient with him (well maybe not but certainly in comparison to other players.)

Has he been viewed as a panic signing? Who hasn't given him a fair crack of the whip? I don't think a single person on this thread has suggested that he isn't a player worth signing.

Poor by his standards.

It is ridiculous to say that Lee will not settle or make little impact as soon as he arrives but in fairness Alpine just said his gut feeling was that he was for next season. I'm not sure I agree with that to be fair but I do think we would do well to get another striker in who is more familiar with the NPC. I don't think we will though.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?34823-Club-in-talks-with-Tadanari-Lee&p=1228536#post1228536 I'm not sure how much clearer I can be in that post that that was not what I said. If you need further clarification of what I actually said then you are welcome to contact me via PM.

Jesus 100? You do realise it's a 3G and not a 3Gs right?

If you take what you can get then why have you put a reserve on it?

Wouldn't explain his performances for the first few months though.

If you don't care then there was no need to quote the point in the first place! Now as Saint Garrett said lets get on with the thread without this nonsense.

Possibly, but I do think that on average there has been a marked and quite obvious decline in his performance since coming back from injury. He was unstoppable beforehand.

There used to be a rule on here- play the ball not the man. It's a shame you are seemingly incapable of doing so. Do you disagree about the likelihood of a player being able to settle or are you disagreeing simply because I am the one who posted it? Your comments suggest the latter.

I didn't make a prediction. You are clearly deliberately failing to understand what I have written quite clearly and what other posters have attempted to write too. Some posters believe that it is more likely that successful strikers in the NPC will be able to settle into an NPC team quicker than a striker from halfway around the world who has never played outside of his own country. It's not rocket science and hardly a controversial point of view.

Good. Glad you can understand now. Lets move on.

Probably someone who thinks I'm making a perfectly reasonable and non-abusive point.

I really don't think you understand what I am trying to say. What I am attempting to get across is that it is quite possible that we will get promotion with just Lee. It is possible that he will make an immediate impact and fire us to promotion. What I believe is that it is more LIKELY that an NPC striker currently in form will be able to do a job straight away. It's the same reason that fans in general give players a lot more slack when they come from different countries and cultures because in most cases it takes a little while to adjust to the culture and physicality of the league. The likes of the three strikers mentioned will have one advantage over Lee because they are used to playing and being successful in this league already. That does not mean that they will be more successful at all but it does IMO mean that they are more likely to be able to do a job immediately which is really what we require.

I don't think we need one of those three, but I definitely do think that by having one of those three or very similar will improve our promotion chances quite a bit. As I said, they are in-form in our league and thus fit the criteria for what we should be looking for IMO. If we leave it with just Lee and no one else then I think that whilst promotion could still be achievable, we are taking a gamble that if it doesn't pay off will see us looking back and wishing we had gone for an in form and affordable NPC striker (like Sharp) in January.

I think my comment was pretty fair. I was hardly getting my knickers in a twist like you claim. I just don't want to be the one starting a thread in May if we fail to go up asking where it went wrong and looking back to our lack of firepower following key injuries to the likes of Lambert and missing out because our Japanese striker took a couple of months to settle into the squad (which would be entirely understandable.)

You said it much better than I could. Good post.

Of course but I believe that without knowing for certain, I would suggest that having seen their respective form in the same league as us, they are more likely to be able to adapt quickly and represent less of a gamble than a promising striker from the J league. Fair?

People are not saying we are unmbitious because we have not gone for those three. Those three strikers are examples of players who are in-form in our league, affordable (well at least two out of three reportedly) and are strikers who are MOST likely to make an impact straight away which is what we need IMO. Obviously there are others but like I said, there are a small number that fit what we need now. Lee sounds great but if he is the only striker we get then I would question how much of an impact he can have straight away based on the factors that have already been outlined. To repeat, I did not say that those three are the only strikers available. If you reread the post of mine that you quoted above then you will see that.

No I said that in my opinion our squad depth was not sufficient enough to stay in our current position. History has shown how weak we are without certain key players and with little backup for Rickie for example we will struggle IMO. This is the best chance we have of promotion and I would hate to see us miss out due to lack of cover or a striker with good npc experience who can hit the ground running.

They are three of a small number who are available, affordable and in form in the npc. I think the point is that many other options represent a bigger gamble when what we really need is someone to make an immediate impact between now and the summer to propel us to promotion.

Oh dear.

Indeed it could be. Delldays just likes to say things to get a reaction. Obviously every transfer has a risk and this does look like a good buy on the face of it. The problem would only be if this is our only bit of business up front in January.