Kuyt next season>>>>>>>>>>>Greedy

[Shaggy]

I had a brief chat with Kuyt last night at the EPL function in Hong Kong and as a bit of a wind up i told him i expect 20 goals from him this season but could settle on 15. He said he will be trying his best to get as many as he can but the main thing was that we win the league whoever gets the goals which i believe is the mentality the whole team have.
These boys play the way and in the positions Rafa wants them to play so its not like Kuyt or anyone else can go out there and say sod the plan i'm playing this game my way.
In my opinion Kuyt will see out this season and a few more after that with Liverpool.

By the way as an ambassador for the club the boy was top drawer.

Did he have a fag on?

[bazza76]

I had a brief chat with Kuyt last night at the EPL function in Hong Kong and as a bit of a wind up i told him i expect 20 goals from him this season but could settle on 15. He said he will be trying his best to get as many as he can but the main thing was that we win the league whoever gets the goals which i believe is the mentality the whole team have.
These boys play the way and in the positions Rafa wants them to play so its not like Kuyt or anyone else can go out there and say sod the plan i'm playing this game my way.
In my opinion Kuyt will see out this season and a few more after that with Liverpool.

By the way as an ambassador for the club the boy was top drawer.

Excellent stuff,
you must have got a few quality pics. mate

[Jop]

Did he have a fag on?

[Shaggy]

I remember someone on here last summer, not long after the site was launched, posting pics of Kuyt in some club in Reading, after Feyenoord had played there earlier that day. Apparently he was smoking like a chimney all night.

[Jop]

Excellent stuff,
you must have got a few quality pics. mate

Aye will see if i can post what i have tomorrow.

also straight from the kraptalk stable of very late insider information Stevie Finnan told me his contract is ready for signing when they get back fron Asia

[REDSCOUSER]

Aye will see if i can post what i have tomorrow.

also straight from the kraptalk stable of very late insider information Stevie Finnan told me his contract is ready for signing when they get back fron Asia

cheers man but Finnan signing his contract was common knowledge before the REDS flew to Asia.

[justcruisin]

kuyt is not gonna cut it . i really dont see what he offers.enough of that workrate ****...we have plenty of midfielders for that. dont think he has enough pace and skill to make something outta nothing...to be honest bellamy and crouch looked more likely to score when they had the ball at their feet.the only reason i think kuyt is still around is cus rafa did spend 11 million on him...and to ship him off would reality look not good on his transfer record. the rest who were given the sack after only one season didnt cost any much as kuyt did.so i think the price tag has saved kuyt's behind....and i doubt any of the top teams would want him...making him not that much marketable as well.another season like the last ...he should be on his way

[peekay]

kuyt is not gonna cut it . i really dont see what he offers.enough of that workrate ****...we have plenty of midfielders for that. dont think he has enough pace and skill to make something outta nothing...to be honest bellamy and crouch looked more likely to score when they had the ball at their feet.the only reason i think kuyt is still around is cus rafa did spend 11 million on him...and to ship him off would reality look not good on his transfer record. the rest who were given the sack after only one season didnt cost any much as kuyt did.so i think the price tag has saved kuyt's behind....and i doubt any of the top teams would want him...making him not that much marketable as well.another season like the last ...he should be on his way

cut him a bit of slack..despite having premiership experience crouch could not score even if his life depended on it in the first 6 months..Last year he looked very threatening, I agree with that..As for Kuyt,the guy had to get used to an tougher league and a higher standard of play and still provided a decent goal return..Just because his style is not pleasing to the eye does not mean he is not effective..
Kuyt's first season >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Crouch's first season

And I dont think it is price tag which is saving him..it is the fact that he goes out there and works his ass of for the team...He is playing a deeper role because Rafa asks him to..If Rafa had personally instructed him to play further ahead and he did not comply,I dont think he would have started as many games...

[publiusscipio]

cut him a bit of slack..despite having premiership experience crouch could not score even if his life depended on it in the first 6 months..Last year he looked very threatening, I agree with that..As for Kuyt,the guy had to get used to an tougher league and a higher standard of play and still provided a decent goal return..Just because his style is not pleasing to the eye does not mean he is not effective..
Kuyt's first season >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Crouch's first season

And I dont think it is price tag which is saving him..it is the fact that he goes out there and works his ass of for the team...He is playing a deeper role because Rafa asks him to..If Rafa had personally instructed him to play further ahead and he did not comply,I dont think he would have started as many games...

Well said.

[redblood]

kuyt is not gonna cut it . i really dont see what he offers.enough of that workrate ****...we have plenty of midfielders for that. dont think he has enough pace and skill to make something outta nothing...to be honest bellamy and crouch looked more likely to score when they had the ball at their feet.the only reason i think kuyt is still around is cus rafa did spend 11 million on him...and to ship him off would reality look not good on his transfer record. the rest who were given the sack after only one season didnt cost any much as kuyt did.so i think the price tag has saved kuyt's behind....and i doubt any of the top teams would want him...making him not that much marketable as well.another season like the last ...he should be on his way

That's bollox for a start Rafa has shown on more than one occassion that he doesn't care about that bull****, if the player is not good enough then he'll be gone end of.

[bigfooty]

Kuyt's first season >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Crouch's first season

I disagree with that. Crouch may have taken time to get his goal scoring going but he helped change how we played - for the better. That season he was one of the key reasons why our league form was as good as it was, even with some iffy results.

[kop-al-74]

We bought the wrong dutchman last year.I was dissapointed at his signing and wished we had gone for Huntelaar instaed.I still feel exactly the same.Kuyts name on the team sheet doesn't excite me at all.Yea he works hard for the team.But then again,so did Heskey.

[Kopite_Colin]

Can't believe 14 goals in his debut season in the PL makes him a awful striker.

Exactly. For me that's another reason SG has to play CM, to prevent Kuyt from having to drop too deep to collect the ball. Kuyt or Voronin need to learn to play off Torres to pick up the pieces and create space with their natural movement around him. But they need to do that in and around the box, not just inside the opponents half.

[Kopite_Colin]

...to be honest bellamy and crouch looked more likely to score when they had the ball at their feet.

Sorry mate that's absolute garbage - just look at their comparative league goalscoring records - that'll tell who's more deadly. Granted, Crouch scored a few outside the league as well (something Kuyt didn't do last year), and his goals / starts ratio was better, but there's NO DOUBT who was the more effective striker over a league campaign last season with regards to Bellamy.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Would rather he sat on the bench next season.

Not a fan, the more I see the less I like him as a player.

I think he's decent, but Crouch for me is the far superior player, and of course we all hope Torres and Voronin do the business.