Baird of the land

Osvaldo is a good player who if he hadn't lost his head could have pushed us further up the table. Now whether he'll get sufficient opportunities at Inter i'd doubt.

I'd certainly prefer Wickham. Would seem much more akin to Jrod signing, where you spend on someone with potential to be top player, rather than vastly overspend on late twenties player who has consistently been average.

Hardly excessive fees if Long's now going for this much over his value. He's a very average player who will add to the team because we are very thin on the ground up front. Altidore would add to the team but he's dross and i wouldn't want us spending 12m on him.

Can't ignore the fee. We've flogged our stars and then squandered that money on dross like Long. Yeah if he was a free or 800k signing people wouldn't be up in arms.

Yeah an average player for 800k may make sense, 12m for one does not imo.

800k for a workmanlike average attacker i could get even if it wouldn't excite me. spending 12m million on one is ridiculous.

I'll predict he'll be mentioned in the same breath as Kerry Dixon and David Speedie.

How has he been shocking for sunderland. Barely had a game, let alone a run in the team since he signed for them. Worth much more than 1-2m imo and overpaying for someone who has potential to kick on to be very good is vastly preferable to vastly overpaying for someone who is distinctly average and has virtually no chance of getting any better.

I'd much prefer blow 10m on a 21 year old who's extremely highly rated, scored regularly for u21's, scored in loan spells in championship and when finally given a run in prem team too. If West Ham get him that's a got potential to be a corking signing.

Yes i'd prefer someone unproven with potential, like when we signed Jrod rather than relegation scrap candidate who may bag a half dozen goals but certainly doesn't have potential to improve and help us towards european places. And yes if you are buying a player who's sole attribute is his pace then you should be worried that he's in his later half of his twenties.

Yep both better players with room to progress to be even better.

I'm still really annoyed about selling chambers dirt cheap. I'd be happy with Kelly from Liverpool now but looks like Palace are getting him. If Byram is now off the table, scared what dross we will be after.

Really gutting if we are going for this type of ageing dross rather than the likes of Ings/Wickham or any other player with some potential. Planning for relegation scrap rather than any form of european ambition clearly.

Hugely overpaying for dross with little resale value. Certainly not something to get excited about.

He's very talented, still very young, and when finally got a run of games in prem he scored a few goals.

Hardly a surprise. Panic buying their mediocre jan panic buy for a huge sum was always going to have people mocking us.

That would be embarrassing, us helping hull strengthen to finish well above us whilst we have their mediocre January panic buy.

And according to you we shouldn't have bought Jrod then? I'd much prefer wick ham who clearly has potential to be much better player than long.

A team that spent stupid money and still got relegated. Then went out and spent even more and lost first championship game. Good team to emulate lol.

So now we are down to hoping he fails the medical. Otherwise we've spent stupid money on utter mediocrity.

Indeed, mediocre player & a fee that is so massively inflated above his worth it's scary.

They panic bought him in jan. Given it sounds we're getting them out of that hole and giving them a whacking great profit they are understandably biting our hand off.

I thought it was a stupid panic buy by them at the time. Now we are getting them out of jail and giving them a profit fir that dross.

Indeed it's a real shame.

We've bet a load of money on hull finishing above us so we buy their dross and give them a huge whack of cash to spend. Or we've a bunch of idiots panicking about potential and offering millions for any piece of garbage.