£2 Million Bid

[Eagle]

Just watched the Palace Programme on cable (yse, it is now back) and our Chairman Simon Jordan was on there and he said that Palace have bid £2 million for Southampton striker James Beattie.
He also said they were looking at the Latvian National goalkeeper and someone else but didn't catch the name as my phone started ringing!!!

If we could get Beattie he would be a great signing. He's big, quick, great in the air and scores goals.
What does everyone else think?

[richit]

I agree with the above, but maybe 2 million is a little too much to spend at this stage of consolidation?

[Zico Murphy]

Certainly the type of player we need up front.Read a new season preview where Southampton fans nominated Beattie as their donkey of the year which is a bit worrying.

[rashid]

Originally posted by Zico Murphy:
Certainly the type of player we need up front.Read a new season preview where Southampton fans nominated Beattie as their donkey of the year which is a bit worrying.

hope SJ reads this then! should knock at least a million off.

[ajp]

Now this sounds very good, even the donkey tag seems OK. We need a strong center forward and Southampton's success is partly built on that. I don't know about 2 million as the price. Then again you look at what mad fees other clubs are paying for adverage players, maybe that's not to bad.

[Neil MacQueen]

Im a fan of Beattie, his scoring record isn't great, but he sets up alot of goals. I hope we get him

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[MC]

I doubt the wisdom of signing Beattie or his like. Why do we need players who have not succeeded elsewhere after two or three seasons in the first team squad?
We should be signing potential (e.g Black, Gray) or proven (e.g Ruddock).

Beattie would be worth a risk at £500K but not £2m.

[Snorwood Eagle]

Does anyone know who the other player that SJ mentioned was? And any details on the Latvian keeper. Beattie would be an interesting one though.

[arussell]

Beattie would indeed be a good signing - although 2 milion is a little overpriced, but he is the type of player we need.

Shows we're in the market again I guess - but it would seem for mainly young and up and coming players. Alan - have a word with Whinger - at least get Taylor for the season and we'll hammer out a permanent deal later on !! - he's not gonna get a look in at Arsenal.

[anti-addick]

£2m seems a lot but I don't know anything about him.

Personally though I think we should be raiding the 20 year olds from Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manure who are now realising that they can't quite cut the first team.

Black and Gray look hot property to me - more of these please.

[eagle mart]

The Latvian goalkeeper played against Chelsea, last season. He played a blinder as well- according to SJ.

Donkey of the year last year but Player of the Year season 98-99. Don't know him much myself but according to Chris Coleman (as SJ said) he's a real handful!

Oh and SJ will be in the disabled area on monday asking them if they want heating and anything else to improve their environment.

All these snippets came from the cable 17 programme

[Statto]

Originally posted by Zico Murphy:
Certainly the type of player we need up front.Read a new season preview where Southampton fans nominated Beattie as their donkey of the year which is a bit worrying.

Very Very worrying they've also got Benali!


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[Trolley]

Beattie is not known for his goal scoring prowess.His record as at the start of this season is as follows :

Blackburn 4 apps 0 goals
Southampton 53 apps 5 goals

Last season he made 18 apps for Southampton in the league (10 as substitute) but failed to score a single goal.

People can make of the the above stats what they will.

[Baloo]

I saw a Beattie goal on MOTD two season's ago, during his purple patch, which was CLASS. Maybe he's not managed to repeat that form because he's competing with Pahars, Davies, Kachoul and whoever else they've got up front there.

Beattie would do well against 1st division defenders.

Agree that £2mill is a bit OTT, but that's premiership transfer price madness.

[ajp]

I agree with Baloo, when your at a Premiership club, even a smaller one, it is easy to be a decent player but only to be on the fringes of the first team, such is the competition for places.

Neil Ruddock is surely a classic example of this, as with West Ham he was not getting first team football yet we can all see how good he is. Razor shows the experiance and class of a Premiership player, authoritative at the back and now scoring goals.

So in the same way Beattie is worth having. Whilst 2 million is a lot, I'd rather pay that for proven quality than take a cheaper option which may not work out. Also with Jordon there maybe we can now look at spending more than we've been used to in the past.

[Al From Bromley]

Benali, now Beattie. The Cockerill influence?

[Welling Neil]

I believe Beattie had a hand in one of Southamptons comeback goals todays as a second half sub.

[BIG LETTER!]

£2m? Oh God. I am sure that if he signed he would be a good player for us, hes not a bad player and has shown flashes of okayness in the past. I am also sure that if we bothered to look we could probably halve the fee and find somebody just as good. Black and Gray are brilliant examples of what can happen if you're prepared to look.

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[ammiller]

Originally posted by Al from Bromley:
The Cockerill influence?

Isn't that the band who sung "Nice One Cyril"?

[Gooders]

Can't believe Beattie could cost 2 million. If that's the case then we'd be far better off buying Shipperley back as he's the same type of player, only better and cheaper!

I'm not normally one for joining the "let's get the old players back" calls but 2 million for Beattie would be a huge risk.