QuoteApparently Long to Hull is still on the agenda,
not ruled in but not ruled out ----- according to a Hull Daily Mail exclusive.
Hull have agreed fee with Everton for Jelavic. I guess that probably rules out Long deal.
Apparently Long to Hull is still on the agenda,
not ruled in but not ruled out ----- according to a Hull Daily Mail exclusive.
The commentator for their match with Chelsea just said something similar... that negotiations are ongoing but they're not saying anything publicly.
Kayleah mustn't be as influential as she thinks. Maybe Shane has promised her a new handbag.
Long and Jelavic aren't that similar in style. Take into account that they've started George Boyd and Yannick Sagbo against Chelsea, with Matt Fryatt and Danny Graham on the bench then there's not a dearth of options there in terms of goalscorers and quality forwards. If Jelavic can regain his goal-scoring form and Long comes in, then Bruce can clear out the deadwood with Fryatt being a Championship striker (at best) and Graham being fairly gash since his good first season with Swansea. Boyd is a midfielder and Sagbo is a grafter, without much of the goals. Bringing in Long and Jelavic for £8.5m would be good business if you consider that Sunderland paid £5m for Graham.
PS. Long is starting up front beside Anelka for WBA today.
Last edited by Olé Olé; 11/01/2014 at 1:22 PM.
Maybe he told her the mountains outside Hull are perfect for skiing Stutt, and she will be the envy of all wags all over.Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
That miss at the end today was horrific.
Just saw the miss. Awful. Far too casual even in the build up. What an enigma. Super athlete, a handful to play against and capable of brilliance but can't be trusted to do the basics at times.
What Stutts said.
£4million+ is a joke IMO.
This makes the miss even worse really...
This is rubbish I think. If the ball came at ferocious pace then fair enough, but it didn't and he had plenty time to adjust and slot it away from the keeper's reach.
Sky Sports expects Hull City to complete the signing of Nikica Jelavic from Everton this afternoon. He's been discussing personal terms with the club. Hull are also understood to have agreed a fee with West Brom for Shane Long, but are yet to agree personal terms with the Republic of Ireland international.
http://www1.skysports.com/transfer-centre/
I think he was a bit unfortunate with the goal keeper being too close, but still way to causal,
hit it in the centre of the goal, had to put it to either post, he would have been better off taking a touch,
that would have left the keeper sprawled on the ground and an open goal.
To put it this way, if it was to equalise in injury time of a crucial game for us I don't think I'd be cutting him any slack. But then I still haven't forgiven Ray for Wembley despite his Stuttgart and New Jersey heroics.
Last edited by DeLorean; 15/01/2014 at 9:20 AM.
To put it in perspective, Walters is a dreadful finisher, Keane is only a goalscoring threat against the smaller nations (Sweden was the exception) and other options like Best, Stokes and Madden have drastically regressed (Stokes to a lesser extent).
Doyle was actually a decent finisher with a decent record at this level, considering he was basically Keane's guinea pig. It really is a pity that he has completely burned out.
I hope Long doesn't head the same way. Both players get kicked week in, week out.
To put in perspective....thats the biggest pile of crap ive read in quite awhile
Keane used to be a goalscoring threat against big nations. His goal against Sweden was his first goal from open play against a decent team since the Playoff in Paris.
Before that, he scored a goal against Italy in the WC Qualifiers.
Before that.......
His record is astonishing but let's not beat around the bush. His goalscoring record against our direct rivals is very poor.
He missed both Germany games in this campaign and the home game against Austria. That reduced his chances of scoring against one of our direct rivals significantly. There's every chance he would have scored against Austria seeing Walters scored twice and Long hit the post but I guess that's neither here nor there.
He scored two v Estonia... If Paris is counted as scoring against our direct rivals, I don't really see why this isn't. Also scored v Russia in the campaign, albeit a penalty.
Of course, scoring against the likes of Macedonia and Cyprus ensured that they didn't become our direct rivals.
So that's how many goals in how many games against "decent" teams?
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