Could be an inspired move for him.
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Could be an inspired move for him.
According to sportinglife Blackburn have just signed him for 3 million.
In fact is says "more than £3million" so maybe it's 10 or 20 or even more? :)
Great business for Newcastle and if Brackburn are willing to pay so much for him it looks like they want him as a starter.
Hope it all works out well; a season in the Championship playing regularly and scoring goals would do him the world of good.
Lets see if he can deliver.
http://www.sportinglife.com/football...p-up-best-deal
do him good to be playing regularly
I don't understand why the fee was so high, I thought he'd be available to anyone willing to take on his wages. Surely he must have taken a wage cut to drop down a division?
It depends what wage he was on at Newcastle. Newcastle are traditionally a big club, but having signed when they were in the Championship under Ashley he might not have been on big money. As far as the fee goes, he's a proven striker at Premier League level. 3 million isn't a lot of money for a player like that.
The days of championship clubs spending anything over £5 million on a single player are gone, surely? Unless there are top flight clubs competing for you, you're not going for any more than that. Wel, unless you're English and under 21, in which case multiply everything by five.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Lot of potential pitfalls to this one, I always felt it vital Blackburn cling to top flight status as they have small attendances, old stadium, bigger neighbours very close by, and could spend a long while outside top flight if they went down. Just a feeling, I'd like to be wrong on it now Best is there. I also thought Best had done enough to remain a top flight player, Hughton at Norwich which would have been an ideal link up. Blackburn also have a manager the fans hate, and owners also, and protests that even the local MP got involved in last season.
But, nothing a 20 goal season following a great start wouldn't fix.
Yep, I think Blackburn could be the next Portsmouth. Still, I said the the same about Newcastle.
I don't think he is proven at premier league level, the newcastle fans don't rate him and see him as someone of sporadic worth and injury prone. Championship was always his level imo. His scoring rate had been good but I think there was a deal of good fortune for a lot of those, the fan certainly don't rate him as highly as the stats suggest. He was right to move and hopefully blackburn sort themselves out for his sake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I wouldn't put much faith in the opinions of the most fickle fans in England. Best's goalscoring return wasn't great but was decent considering he never really played as a central striker and sacrificed glory to enable Ba's goalscoring exploits. Fair point about being injury-prone though.
picked up a bad knee injury at the weekend and gone for a scan today: http://www.rovers.co.uk/page/NewsDet...864661,00.html
unconfirmed rumours that it's a cruciate ligament injury, which would put him out for the season
Looks like he has done his ACL alright - http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...or_six_months/
Out for 6 months, although that could be optimistic. Really feel for the poor bugger.
I feel bad for Blackburn! Finally they start spending a bit of money and this happens. Hopefully they had insurance on his contract, he was on massive money for the Championship and they paid a pretty penny to get him too. Simon Cox on his way there today apparently.
Could be the end of him in an Irish context unfortunately.
I don't think he's really been in with a shout since Walters arrived anyway. Barring injuries to two of Doyle, Long and Walters, he'd rarely get a look-in anyway. Noel Hunt would be more likely to make any squad now that he's in the Premier League and doesn't have the same perceived attitude problem.
expecting to return in February: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20725988
He has returned to action on Monday after nearly seven months out with a cruciate ligament injury.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...08_468x331.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...h-absence.html
Great news! Always good to see one of our own come back from a nasty injury. Hope he makes a full recovery and return to form...
Blackburn have gone through two managers in the time he's been out injured!
It was a daft transfer from Best's career perspective I thought, he has fought his way back once already from having to drop down the levels, he did enough to suggest a top flight future, international involvement beckons, and immediately joins a relegated club, and one in meltdown at that. Crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
back on the bench tonight against Bolton
got a late equaliser for blackburn looked a cracker first time i was it
It was a lovely finish, came into the box with pace and he just guided it into the corner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhVyNQLUrgM
looks different from different angles but about 0.51 looks best, more of a flying volley which is as I first saw, other angles
may not look so impressive but it was a quality finish, not easy to put away from that angle.
Think we should Curb our Enthusiasm in terms of Best and Ireland....
If memory serves right, didn't he dirty his bib in Trap's eyes a few years back....
Combination of dodgy pullouts from squads and then one occasion we he turned up it was suggested in papers that he wasn't "at it" in training....
Like Stokes, Gibson, Doyle etc...think it'll be post Trap before Best is called up again (if ever)
Do you really think he is good enough for Int'l football?
Has had a wretched 18 months with injuries.... he went through a stage at Newcastle where he was playing with some pomp and scoring regularly in EPL..... he's an option.... in terms of finishing he certainly isn't far behind Long who isn't a natural finisher that's for sure....Quote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
At his Best he is one of our Best. ;)
If he keeps scoring he is one to consider I guess. Key word is if.
......and that should just about do it Leon, nice knowing ya!:rolleyes:
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-29472602.html
I get that he's frustrated, but why do players effectively kill of their international career in the short term at least by spouting stuff like that? No manager likes to be publicly blasted by a player, so it could even possibly count against him when other managers are taking a look. Scout report would read something like, "Looks a decent player, but will go to the press when things aren't going his way".
Because they're morons.
Yeah but this is a guy who, after working his way back up from Coventry to Newcastle via QPR / Wednesday / Bournemouth & Yeovil, just as he was proving he could score goals up top and make people sit up, decided to join the publicly imploding Blackburn Rovers and drop a level again. Baffling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Serb
I think he was basically told he wouldn't be playing at Newcastle last season.
Or because they do not want to be called up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Yeah, that's obviously the case with some players. There are so many potential reasons though. It could be a maturity thing in that rather than just call Trap and say, "I'm no longer available for international selection", he engineers a disagreement with the coach and rules himself out of selection. That approach sits easier with fans of club and country in that we can fool ourselves into thinking that he's not being called up for now because Trap doesn't like him and the player can then go back and play for his country if things aren't working out at club level and he needs to put himself in the shop window.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
I think this whole idea of playing for your country being the greatest honour possible and, "I'd give my left arm to pull on the green just that one time", is all complete bull**** when it comes to actually being good enough to be called up for your country. My belief is that the majority of players don't like to miss the tournaments because that's when people are watching. When it comes to the month to month slog, for most players it's OK. A select few are super passionate about playing for their country and a select few hate every minute of it.
I think the number one factor that devalues the experience is the amount of travelling that's required to participate. I have seen it in my own job where, on paper, it sounds great getting to spend 6 weeks in San Francisco, but the reality is it's a pain in the dick having to work in a city where you barely know anyone, live out of a hotel room, hang around with the same bunch of lads who you're not mates with, but you can't ignore either because you have to collaborate on a long term basis. It's probably worse still for footballers as they can't go out and are most likely on extremely strict diets (apart from Andy Reid and Richard Dunne who just eat what they want).
Richard Dunne has always been bulky, sure, but it's muscular bulk. I've never thought of him as being out of shape in the way Reid has often allowed himself to balloon. Dunne's physique suits his position much better too, whereas I can't really fathom what sort of nutritional head Reid has on him for a midfielder. I have heard Reid has slimmed down again for the start of this season, mind.
This is so ridiculous. He had one decent game vs Derby. There will come a time when no one talks about him for months......
Richard Dunne is on a strict diet of Russian attackers
Reid looks in great shape and his creativity was the difference between Forest securing a win against Huddersfield on the opening day rather than getting a draw.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
2 goals in 5 starts this season, including this cracker against Derby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL3ntjtUlg4, but he hasn't played since October http://www.soccerbase.com/players/pl...layer_id=38733.
He's struggled with injuries but if he gets a move in this transfer window, he could become a serious option for the EC Qualifiers in 2016. He's arguably a better option than Cox, Walters, Keogh and maybe Doyle and Stokes anyway.
The bust up with the manager at Blackburn and his use of Twitter probably won't do him any favours though.