Stewart Downing - West Hahahaham player

[Neil Young]

you can barely sign a Decent Championship or League One player for £4m there days...

True but it seems worth trying.

[Sarb]

If someone offers money for him, FSG and Ayre will take it. They aren't going to keep 28+ year olds unless they are star/key players like Agger. Downing has not done enough since being here and should be moved on. We will be lucky to get £6m

[Gazzla]

Rumours that he's having a medical at West Ham tomorrow.

[Gibbo]

If we do sell him I really hope we bring in another winger to replace him.

[baitman]

Rumours that he's having a medical at West Ham tomorrow.

im picking him up at 3am, its a long piggy back down to the smoke

[Gazzla]

im picking him up at 3am, its a long piggy back down to the smoke

Don't drop the salary thief, we can't risk him failing a medical

[saj]

He got to the byline and produced a good assist for Aspas v Valarenga!! Coutinho struggled to hit the target yesterday too!

I know Downing's wages are a problem but you can barely sign a Decent Championship or League One player for £4m there days...

I will give you that one but I'd argue Aspas made that pass for him if you get what I mean.

With regards to Coutinho - his half season stats were better than Downings whole LFC career stats

[Baracus]

If we do sell him I really hope we bring in another winger to replace him.

I think we will go back after Tom Ince. No one else seems to want to join us, we pay lower wages now and we seem to give players to Blackpool on loan ( Robinson and rumour of Jon Flanno going too) for Jokes after how they have treated us in the past

[Parr_Zee]

With regards to Coutinho - his half season stats were better than Downings whole LFC career stats

Obviously I agree, but my argument is that for £4m-£5m we are not going to get a player anywhere near Downings quality so why sell? In my eyes he is definitely a useful squad player who can come in and do a good job...!

[danperkins]

Wages aren't matching performance... IMO his wages are a big factor.

[Neil Young]

I once read a short story about a scientist who bet a colleague about testing the infinite monkey theorem. So he got six chimps and six typewriters (it was an old story), and set them to work.

The colleague came round to check after a couple of days and found, to his amazement, that the six chimps had immediately typed First Folio editions of Shakespeare, immaculately, without a single typo, a new page for the start of each act, etc. And they'd moved on to the unexpurgated diaries of Samuel Pepys and various other classics.

So the scientist got worried, not that he was losing the bet but that these superchimps posed a threat to the human species.

So he shot them.

And as the last one alive lay bleeding to death, he typed a final sentence, perfect English but then it suddenly turned into gobbledygook like thigsdggcb5dxczms.

And the scientist realised that a one in a quintillion chance can happen right at the start of the experiment. They weren't superchimps, it was just random chance they started off perfectly. Had they lived they'd have typed rubbish from that point and for the rest of time.

So maybe Coutinho won't maintain his great stats.

[Kenneth]

Although from the sounds of it they probably were superchimps who lost their abilities due to a devastating injury. But I guess that may still takes us to the same ultimate conclusion about the usefulness of Stewart Downig.

[Fosterbloke]

I once read a short story about a scientist who bet a colleague about testing the infinite monkey theorem. So he got six chimps and six typewriters (it was an old story), and set them to work.

The colleague came round to check after a couple of days and found, to his amazement, that the six chimps had immediately typed First Folio editions of Shakespeare, immaculately, without a single typo, a new page for the start of each act, etc. And they'd moved on to the unexpurgated diaries of Samuel Pepys and various other classics.

So the scientist got worried, not that he was losing the bet but that these superchimps posed a threat to the human species.

So he shot them.

And as the last one alive lay bleeding to death, he typed a final sentence, perfect English but then it suddenly turned into gobbledygook like thigsdggcb5dxczms.

And the scientist realised that a one in a quintillion chance can happen right at the start of the experiment. They weren't superchimps, it was just random chance they started off perfectly. Had they lived they'd have typed rubbish from that point and for the rest of time.

So maybe Coutinho won't maintain his great stats.

Joe Allen is not a superchimp.

[destinydude]

I once read a short story about a scientist who bet a colleague about testing the infinite monkey theorem. So he got six chimps and six typewriters (it was an old story), and set them to work.

The colleague came round to check after a couple of days and found, to his amazement, that the six chimps had immediately typed First Folio editions of Shakespeare, immaculately, without a single typo, a new page for the start of each act, etc. And they'd moved on to the unexpurgated diaries of Samuel Pepys and various other classics.

So the scientist got worried, not that he was losing the bet but that these superchimps posed a threat to the human species.

So he shot them.

And as the last one alive lay bleeding to death, he typed a final sentence, perfect English but then it suddenly turned into gobbledygook like thigsdggcb5dxczms.

And the scientist realised that a one in a quintillion chance can happen right at the start of the experiment. They weren't superchimps, it was just random chance they started off perfectly. Had they lived they'd have typed rubbish from that point and for the rest of time.

So maybe Coutinho won't maintain his great stats.

Take a bow

[johnly]

The all knowing Sky Sources are reporting that he's having his medical today at West Ham after a fee has been agreed