Peter Crouch to Newcastle

[ElRobbie]

OK, Crouch is no Shearer, but Villa isn't either, and Crouch is closer to Shearer than Villa is, and we have enough little uns doing that role, it's the Shearer type of player we need to compliment the other strikers we have, so I'd rather keep Crouchy for that role and shift Robbie on actually, as much as that saddens me, that is my first acknowledgement of me wanting to move Robbie out of the way for someone else.

Kuyt is probably the closest to a Shearer type player we've got!?

Crouch like Shearer, give me a ****ing break, he's only half as quick as he was at his age and he wasn't even that fast, Shearer would just nudge him and he'd fall over, like he always does. Shearer's shooting is probably ten times more powerful then Crouch's and he can head the ball ten times better.

Ps I know you said he's no Shearer, but you are trying to say he's the closest we've got, which is so untrue. Kuyt is a Shearer type player to me, hard working, works all over the pitch when he has to, strong as an ox, not quick but clever and has a powerful shot.

Crouch isn't closer to Shearer than Villa, that's ridiculous, Villa is stronger, quicker, has a more powerful shot and he's got to be better in the air, everyone is.

[desertscouser]

Just done the 'morning papers' review on SSN. That unmentionable paper that is nearly always full of horse-**** says Crouch is 'set to move to Newcastle for £12m' (), and they also showed an unnamed broadsheet reporting "Crouch set to be sold to Newcastle to pave the way for a move for David Villa".

No one would pay 12 million quid for Crouch. Not even Newcastle.

However, if someone did come in with a bid of 12 million quid then I'd sell regardless of a replacement. That kind of money would be too difficult to turn down. Could we not recall Ping Pong from his loan spell in Spain?

As for Villa, is he really worth 20 million plus? And if he is how the f*ck are we supposed to find the cash to sign him?

Conclusion: Crouch stays and Villa signs for Chelsea

[Howard_lfc]

Why, he doesn't have to like the Beatles, or England?

Or....thinking the other way:
He knows Rafa's interested - but we didn't/don't have the money immediately. So instead he puts out comments about not being interested in playing over here - to ward off any potential suitors (not that the Mancs would ever go after one of our 'targets' - no siree bob). In the meantime there are workings going on in the background to make the deal happen.

Not likely I know - but just another slant on Villa's comments.

[Mumsafan]

Kuyt is probably the closest to a Shearer type player we've got!?

Crouch like Shearer, give me a ****ing break, he's only half as quick as he was at his age and he wasn't even that fast, Shearer would just nudge him and he'd fall over, like he always does. Shearer's shooting is probably ten times more powerful then Crouch's and he can head the ball ten times better.

Ps I know you said he's no Shearer, but you are trying to say he's the closest we've got, which is so untrue. Kuyt is a Shearer type player to me, hard working, works all over the pitch when he has to, strong as an ox, not quick but clever and has a powerful shot.

Crouch isn't closer to Shearer than Villa, that's ridiculous, Villa is stronger, quicker, has a more powerful shot and he's got to be better in the air, everyone is.

I don't think Kuyt is like Shearer either. I wouldn't want him to be to tell the truth.

[desertscouser]

I don't think Kuyt is like Shearer either. I wouldn't want him to be to tell the truth.

If only we had a young Alan Shearer...

[Kopite_Colin]

If only we had a young Robbie Fowler.....

[Kopite_Colin]

I'd let all the strikers go apart from Kuyt. We desperately need GOALSCORING class up front. We haven't got it and it shows. It's cost us any chance of the title this year. Until we put that right, we've got no chance.

[ElRobbie]

I don't think Kuyt is like Shearer either. I wouldn't want him to be to tell the truth.

He's more like him than any of our strikers, he shares a lot of the same attributes, Crouch doesn't share one.

You wouldn't want him to be like Shearer? I don't think I've ever heard so much rubbish, that's exactly his problem, he isn't strong or robust enough, he can't shoot accurately or powerfully enough and he certainly can't head the ball as well as Shearer, if he was more like him then he'd be a better player.

Or is it just cause you don't like Shearer?

[Shaggy]

Its not an anti-Crouch agenda, its a pro-Liverpool agenda, we need better players then Peter Crouch for a shot at the title, its not a personal dig at Crouch its a post about the team, saying we need a higher claibre/quality striker to compete with the best teams.

Um, I was joking.

[Red_Polo]

No one would pay 12 million quid for Crouch. Not even Newcastle.

Never rule out anything with that feckless Geordie Freddy Shepherd

[ElRobbie]

Um, I was joking.

OK

[ronan]

kuyt hasnt got the composure of shearer
he MAy rise to somewhere near that level at somepoint down the road
but as for crouch like shearer thats a joke.

[Shaggy]

Kuyt is nothing like Shearer. I don't get that particular comparison.

[spud_gun]

Any offer over £7m and i'd bite Newcastles hand off.

chomp chomp

[ElRobbie]

Kuyt is nothing like Shearer. I don't get that particular comparison.

FFS, have a read back through the posts, I wasn't really trying to start any sort of comparison and I wasn't really saying he was a lot like him, I was just pointing out that he's MORE like him than any of our other strikers, as the earlier poster was trying to say that Crouch was most like Shearer out of our strikers.

He does share some attributes with him though, he holds the ball up well and brings others into play, he's strong, very robust, has a powerful shot etc, you've got to say he's more like him than Crouch, which was all I was saying in the first place.