Maybe we didn't want to pay a huge loan fee where as Reading would/could?
Leo. Rhodes. Crouch. Matt Smith.
Perhaps not better overall players, but better for what we need.
Plus hundreds of foreigners that I've never heard of.
If we're offloading a big, hold-up man, the least likely scenario is to then sign a little nipper.
Suspect we withdrew interest.
Rhodes who would cost way over £10m. Ulloa who's been linked with Palace for £10m. Crouch who's probably on stupid money, and Matt Smith who's record doesn't come close to Vydra.
Matt Smith would be the only 'attainable', and isn't as good as Vydra. If he was 'prolific' he'd have scored one of the 6 or 7 very good chances he had against us a few weeks ago.
Leo. Rhodes. Crouch. Matt Smith.
Perhaps not better overall players, but better for what we need.
Plus hundreds of foreigners that I've never heard of.
Will score more goals this season than Vydra managed last season.
With the exception of Rhodes who has mobility and Crouch to a lesser extent, I would say the others are similar to what we already have.
All those four are attainable. All would realistically score more goals in our team than Vydra, Smith did miss some great chances against us, but everyone has an off game.
Let's face it, though: we cannot guarantee a starting place to any loan player this season. That'll be what they all want.
Vydra got 14 last season.
Don't see Smith getting that many.
Disagree.
Middlesbrough bid £13m for Rhodes, and Blackburn refused to let him speak to them (supposedly as they are in the same division). I don't think £13m+ is attainable for us. No way.
Steve Clarke had him at West Brom.
That's the only reason. Either that or we couldn't guarantee he'd play every week.
Didn't think I'd be debating the merits of Matt Smith on deadline day.
Reading also paying a £2mill loan fee for him.
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None of us really know the ins and outs of the saga, or indeed other transfers. Personally, I would have thought that someone of his pace would be ideal to work off Hemed, as also Sam Baldock increasingly seems able to do, and would be disappointed if the club is looking for someone else on the cheap. But, I do accept that I don't really know. Just wondering.