** New striker - Confirmed - Leroy Lita **

[Blues Rock DJ]

Lita: "I received a call this morning..."

You know, that almost suggests he wasn't first choice and we were desperately trying to get someone/anyone...

sounds like a blues singer to me .....

 

[Guinness Boy]

Indeed. I've noticed several since your post saying they're 'happy to be wrong' which is of course a complete cop-out. The bottom line is they WERE wrong. Some (by no means all), might want to think twice before gobbing off in future.

I was happy to be wrong but you've got to admit it was yet another fortnight of mixed messages from the club.

Bloom: We'll get in one, maybe two, strikers

Barber: Er we might not get anyone - it's quite difficult.

I'm paraphrasing of course but even some of the more colourful characters on here are a bit too sophisticated for good cop, bad cop.

The end result is that we got a decent forward in. Who cares about a pissing contest?

 

[Icy Gull]

I'm now offended that we didn't get our first choice striker, what a shambles this club is

 

[Seagull kimchi]

The lad used to drive a black Hummer at Reading....let's hope he's grown up a bit nowadays.

 

[fosters headband]

I'm now offended that we didn't get our first choice striker, what a shambles this club is

Not me, I am happy to be offended in that way. Lita instead of Obika, I can only think of one way that Obika would have headed Lita on the Burke list and that Burke was holding it upside down

 

[sparkie]

F***king Wednesday reject we have signed now. We will soon be challenging the owls for relegation. Poyet wasn't wrong about hitting the ceiling. Last year bridge on loan this year lita.

Poyet was VERY wrong about us 'hitting the ceiling'. In fact it was an insult to Tony's investment and the very core of the club.

You'll see that on the next 2-3 years, when we progress upwards a league.

 

[Icy Gull]

Poyet was VERY wrong about us 'hitting the ceiling'. In fact it was an insult to Tony's investment and the very core of the club.

You'll see that on the next 2-3 years, when we progress upwards a league.

Agreed, more a case of impatience on Gus' part and frustration born of not being able to compete financially with the parachute payment teams and FFP flouters imo. He had been given a pretty reasonable budget and had done well with it. Having acquired Ulloa after more than a year of chasing him, it seemed it was all coming together. Shame.

 

[jabba]

Hope he has learnt not to stretch while in bed....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/reading/6935892.stm

check out the associated list of other freak injuries

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I'm quite enthused by this signing, although he's gonna take a while to get match fit

Yeah that's the worry for me, especially with him only being with us for a dozen games, he may spend the majority of them just getting match fit.

Hope I'm wrong though, he is a player l have always liked, scored plenty of goals before, and will score plenty in the future.

 

[albionite]

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/swanseacity/forum/91749/leroy-on-his-way/#9

Swansea fans don't seem to be too upset he has gone.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

According to wiki he signed a 3 year deal with Swansea in July 2011, so would be out of contract come the end of the season. If he does well I guess there is a decent chance he could sign for longer come January?

 

[BensGrandad]

I am not sure who I expected or hoped for but Leroy Lita didnt figure on my list but I am sure that he is an improvement on Obika.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Poyet was VERY wrong about us 'hitting the ceiling'. In fact it was an insult to Tony's investment and the very core of the club.

You'll see that on the next 2-3 years, when we progress upwards a league.

Gus hit the ceiling, not the club.

 

[Telford Seagull]

Gus hit the ceiling, not the club.

Very much this. He got it wrong, not the club

 

[theonesmith]

According to wiki he signed a 3 year deal with Swansea in July 2011, so would be out of contract come the end of the season. If he does well I guess there is a decent chance he could sign for longer come January?

Wouldn't surprise me if Swansea mutually agreed to terminate his contract to save on his wages, if he had another club lined up..

 

[theonesmith]

I am not sure who I expected or hoped for but Leroy Lita didnt figure on my list but I am sure that he is an improvement on Obika.

This. He might not be a nice guy (I don't know him so can hardly judge), he might not offer much to the team, but he does have a knack of scoring goals and that will do for me.

28 now too, so should (theoretically) be more mature and at the peak of his career.

 

[symyjym]

He was at least third choice on the Burke database.
Oscar was reported as turning down a striker last week from that list and we know Burke's top target was Obika.
I would love to know how Obika rated higher than Lita on that database. Perhaps a question TLO can ask DB.

It may have been that we moved up on Lita's list with Ulloa's injury assuring him game time? Better bargaining power?

The order of the list probably changes with different circumastances being a major factor, and it is always fuid.

 

[fosters headband]

It may have been that we moved up on Lita's list with Ulloa's injury assuring him game time? Better bargaining power?

The order of the list probably changes with different circumastances being a major factor, and it is always fuid.

Very possible, but I would like to know and hope TLO does cover the subject in his show.

 

[Guinness Boy]

It may have been that we moved up on Lita's list with Ulloa's injury assuring him game time? Better bargaining power?

The order of the list probably changes with different circumastances being a major factor, and it is always fuid.

I'd imagine once Ulloa AND Obika got injured the list got ripped up and completely rewritten

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Gus hit the ceiling, not the club.

No Gus didn't hit the ceiling. Sorry to go on and on about what's now firmly in the past, but Gus will make a great manager, and l'm convinced will be successful in the Premier League.