The Manhattan Project wrote:Bellamy and ten million, in exchange for Tevez.
bigmick wrote:Sometimes when you move players on you kind of get that uneasy feeling that the decision may come back to haunt you. Sometimes of course, you don't. Now Cisse, Zenden and Gonzales would certainly fall into the latter category for me, as my opinion is that they quite simply aren't ever going to be good enough to play at the very top level. On the question of Bellamy however, I'm not so sure.
I have a hunch that the (admittedly annoying) little Welshman is capable of a good deal better than he has shown in a red shirt, and that the combination of a slow start to the season which damaged his confidence and then being constantly rotated meant that he never got going at all. 9 million, while representing a solid return on our initial investment might still look like a bit of a steal in a years time, as with the imminent arrival of Voronin and the preservation of Kuyt and Crouch we would still lack pace up top, even if we were to sign a megastar forward. I hope I'm wrong here but if any one of Tevez/Eto/Henri/Torres/Trezuguet does come, and gets injured in the first few weeks of the season we may be living to regret the sale of Bellamy when we are struggling to break teams down with a fairly pedestrian front pairing.
If we had our time again, I would have kept Bellamy and forgot about Voronin.
bigmick wrote:Bellamy's attitude is always going to be a factor, quite simply because he is a nasty little piece of work (or so it appears anyway). That said, he wouldn't be the first footballer who with good management has harnessed his snarling aggression and general lack of social skills into making himself a better player than his raw talent would allow. Roy Keanne, along with Gerrard and Vierra probably one of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership wouldn't have been blessed with anything like the natural talent, or pure athletic ability of the other two but by sheer passion, horribleness and desire made himself at least their equal.
FWIW I actually think that Bellamy's attitude in the games he played was OK. He ran his balls off in the games in which I watched him, although there were a couple of technical reasons I think why he was less effective than he can be, chief of which was the (probably at the request of the management) tendency to play almost as a winger instead of as a real striker. I can remember quite clearly as well games at the start of the season when he was trying to steer the ball into the net rather than just doing what came naturally and putting his foot through it. He had one absolutely glaring miss in the first few games which seemed to totally sap his confidence.
At the end of the day Hayesy, based purely on what he has done in his first season you'd definately take the money and run. I reckon though if he is played centrally and regularly, and he gets his confidence up he will be a regular scorer. I know he hasn't done it previously but I think he has the attributes to be a 20 goals a season man. There, now thats what you call sticking your neck out.
LFC2007 wrote:The Manhattan Project wrote:Bellamy and ten million, in exchange for Tevez.
So give MSI £10m and Bellamy?
Doesn't make sense.
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