Southampton spending £20 million on a new striker,get in for Jay now please.

With what? He'd easily command £20 million.

who is he ?

Jay on loan? Yes please!

They still need squad depth. Long, JayRod and Redmond out of position their only options up top.

If we signed a striker I doubt we'd loan out Vokes.

No need to sign him.

TVC15 wrote:who is he ?

ClaretAndJew wrote:With what? He'd easily command £20 million.

Money isn't a problem,scoring goals which Jay would do for us is paramount in this league,if we wanna stay in this league why not splash the cash.

Steve1956 wrote:Money isn't a problem,scoring goals which Jay would do for us is paramount in this league,if we wanna stay in this league why not splash the cash.

We've already got someone who scores goals.

I'm going to upset some on here... Not sure he would give us anything that we don't have.

His years away have not necessarily covered him in glory !

There, said it.

I like Jay Rod but, we don't need him... especially at inflated wages.

Steve1956 wrote:

Seriously who is he ?

Is he related to Maxi Rodriguez ?

TVC15 wrote:Seriously who is he ?

Is he related to Maxi Rodriguez ?

I ain't got a clue mate.somebody reckons he'd cost us 20 million though.

RalphCoatesComb wrote:I'm going to upset some on here... Not sure he would give us anything that we don't have.

His years away have not necessarily covered him in glory !

There, said it.

I like Jay Rod but, we don't need him... especially at inflated wages.

He's been unlucky with injuries,would love to see him paired with Gray.

I don't see the same player that I saw before he was injured 3 years ago. He didn't look great last night.

I'd much prefer to see Defoe who guarantees goals but as has already been said it's not goals we're short of. Wingers, Full backs, Midfield first. it's not as though we're struggling if we don't sign in this window though is it?

Who're Southampton signing then?

Would be a classy addition and a welcome homecoming.

When (not if) we're more established a distinct possibility maybe .Still too soon I reckon.

Steve1956 wrote:He's been unlucky with injuries,would love to see him paired with Gray.

When someone is unlucky with injuries for three years without a break, I start to doubt whether he'll ever be fit.

I would have liked to see him in the League Cup semi last night, but I only watched the second half, and he'd already been subbed. Injured.

20,000,000? A drop in the bucket. We're getting 200,000,000 from Sky this year, and have spent next to nothing of it.

200,000,000 ? Source ?

Well known fact. All prem teams getting 200,000,000 from Sky this year. It's called television rights. Do you think they get to telecast and sell advertising time for free?

How can a striker who averages 5 goals a season be worth 20m ffs. And that average is mainly thanks to one good season in 5!

Too expensive. Too injury prone. Not the player we expected him to be.

Not to **** off our most ardent posters but if Rodriguez wasn't from Burnley town we'd not even be discussing this. We'd be calling him a crocked player with dodgy legs with a strike rate of 1 in 4.

Spot on c and j. We are in a much better place than when we sold him. He was good for us then. But he hasnt progressed and we need better than him.

I would say that a fully fit and injury free Jay Rodriguez would he exactly what we and probably at least half of the current Premier league would need and want.
He is quality and to say we need better than him is laughable.

But hes never fully fit and injury free.

If we were to take a rarely fit ex burnley current southampton forward it should be austin. Neither are going to happen. But at least Austin would bag every other game if we got him.

Better than JayRod and available at that price? OK, go ahead and start naming them.

Aye.... charlie austin out of the two for me!

ontario claret wrote:Better than JayRod and available at that price? OK, go ahead and start naming them.

20m? Well we got Grey for a third of that and hes already matched his total in his first season at this level in half the games.

But who is available? That's the point. And at that money. Don't think you'd get Austin at that price IF (and that's a big IF), he was available.

ontario claret wrote:20,000,000? A drop in the bucket. We're getting 200,000,000 from Sky this year, and have spent next to nothing of it.

Hi Ontario,

I guess you mean 200,000,000 Canadian Dollars?

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We got Gray because he was playing at a lesser club who desperately needed the funds in order to build a new stadium. Even then 9,000,000 was more than other teams were willing to pay for him.

ontario claret wrote:But who is available? That's the point. And at that money. Don't think you'd get Austin at that price IF (and that's a big IF), he was available.

We should get 4 Charlie Austins, maybe 5 at £20 million. He's out injured, yet again. Shame, because he does know how to score a goal or two.

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Paul, all figures quoted are British pound sterling, which were worth more before the Brexit vote.

The obsession with Jay continues, he's crap and has been crap for years.

But who knows for sure, Paul? You can speculate, and players DO recover from injury, and some actually play better after coming back from injury.

OK. I'll shut up now. The defining comment has just been made.

KRBFC wrote:The obsession with Jay continues, he's crap and has been crap for years.

If you aren't being paid to post on here then it's time that you were. You want to be having a word with someone.

The hours and effort that you've put into being a controversial bellend on here is quite remarkable.

Only ClaretTony and Dibraidio have put more work into this site than you have.

KRBFC wrote:The obsession with Jay continues, he's crap and has been crap for years.

I've read some bolloxios from KRBFC on here but that's his best one yet!

Bin Ont Turf wrote:If you aren't being paid to post on here then it's time that you were. You want to be having a word with someone.

The hours and effort that you've put into being a controversial bellend on here is quite remarkable.

Only ClaretTony and Dibraidio have put more work into this site than you have.

How many league goals has he scored since he left Burnley 5 years ago?
I don't see it as controversial to suggest a player who has averaged around 4 goals a season for the past 5 years is crap.

KRBFC wrote:How many league goals has he scored since he left Burnley 5 years ago?
I don't see it as controversial to suggest a player who has averaged around 4 goals a season for the past 5 years is crap.

He's scored 25 goals in 94 league games for Southampton, 34 in 114 for all comps... Consider the fact he was also used as a left winger for many games aswell, not a bad return really

And the fact he's been out for over a season and half with serious injuries. He probably would have been on the plane to Brazil with England before that ACL injury. Class player and would definitely improve our forward line.

Let's ignore the fact he's been starting games ahead of Shane long and he's got a Wembley final looming.......... We've got zero chance

Everybody is sh-it according to KRBFC
Existing Burnley players
Ex Burnley players
Burnley manager
Burnley Board
Burnley fans

But yet he's still a Burnley fan !

Seriously has a screw loose

I'd love to be as crap as jay.

Play for your home town team.... at Wembley

Play in europe

Possibly win a trophy at Wembley

Aayy I don't know, if we were all as crap as Jay eh, how crap life would be...

I don't think anybody is seriously suggesting Jay is crap or not a good player (I don't think KRBFC believes half of what he writes). Jay Rodriguez was excellent in the 2013-14 season and has unfortunately been plagued by injuries since. That doesn't make him crap, that makes him injury prone. I still think he's a good football player but would I sign him? Probably not. His injury record suggests it would be a waste of a wage and possibly hefty transfer fee.

Edit - Here are a few players who are/were rather unjury prone. Are they/were they all crap?

Jack Wilshere
Nemanja Vidic
Arjen Robben
Sergio Aguero
Robin Van Persie

I can go on and on Point is, just because someone is injury prone, doesn't make them a bad player.

Clarettintedlense wrote:But hes never fully fit and injury free.

If we were to take a rarely fit ex burnley current southampton forward it should be austin. Neither are going to happen. But at least Austin would bag every other game if we got him.

Excuse me! Isnt Austin injured? .... again!

We need to sign them both. Then get the medical team to synchronise their injuries so they're never both injured at the same time, and we're sorted - play the fit one.

Jay had huge potential, and before the serious injuries continued to develop, thought he might become a prolific striker with his all round game but hasn't really managed that.
Austin always was a wonderful poacher of goals, just one thing on his mind, although being a very different player with a very different approach and skill set Gray has some similarities he does know where the net is and hits the ball with venom.

dsr wrote:We need to sign them both. Then get the medical team to synchronise their injuries so they're never both injured at the same time, and we're sorted - play the fit one.

Surely if they're synchronised they'll always be injured at the same time.