Roque Santa Cruz - Worth a punt?

I seem to remember him saying he'd like to return to England after his loan spell in Spain. Ourselves and Blackburn were mentioned as he wants to stay in the north west..

Now he's been released by city, would you take him?

He would want too much money.

I would take him, but as the drunk above says, he'd want too much dosh.

How much money do you think he'd want ?

I bet he'd want 65k at the least.

Natasha Whittam wrote:I would take him, but as the drunk above says, he'd want too much dosh.

You are funny sometimes.

I wouldn't want him.

No one will offer him what he was on at city. He'll have to take a cut

I'll do it...
He's shit, too lightweight.








In truth though, id grab him, without doubt.

Pay him big (ish) money, he will bag 25 goals in the championship.

Never happen though.

No thanks! He's well past his sell buy date.

decent player


At the right price, yes

SA knew that City wanted him so held out till Mark Hughes up't his bid to £19mill then hardly played him.
But that's City for you, they paid £22million for Lescott.

chipbutty wrote:SA knew that City wanted him so held out till Mark Hughes up't his bid to £19mill then hardly played him.
But that's City for you, they paid £22million for Lescott.

Do you reckon we could get City interested in Knight and Mills, got to be worth £30m for the two.

MartinBWFC wrote:

chipbutty wrote:SA knew that City wanted him so held out till Mark Hughes up't his bid to £19mill then hardly played him.
But that's City for you, they paid £22million for Lescott.

Do you reckon we could get City interested in Knight and Mills, got to be worth £30m for the two.

I guess you mean we would have to pay them 30 million to have them take them off our hands.

He scored a good goal last night...... he won't put a "shift" in but has quality IMO.

How come all the "worth a punt" threads recently are suggesting players that have already been around the higher English leagues? It's depressing. Surely we don't want to be aiming for (possibly expensive, possibly past it) sloppy seconds? We're supposedly rebuilding on a low budget aren't we? We already have a bunch of "stopgap" journeymen who can do a decent if unspectacular job at this level, but I thought the idea was to supplement the squad with a better quality of talent.
On our budget, that means three possible lines of enquiry: Youngsters that are not already on the books of big clubs or that can be brought in cheaply like the two we got last month, relatively undiscovered (in the UK) affordable talent looking for a break like Medo or CYL, or discarded older talented players who have still got something to prove and are willing to take a wage cut to prove it like Okocha, Djorkieff and Hierro.
Cruz would theoretically be in the latter group but he isn't quite top class so I wouldn't consider him unless he had a phenomenal attitude and was willing to work for peanuts.
Tierney was bought as a journeyman stopgap but I reckon we already have enough of them so I'm really hoping that when the window opens, Dougie will be focussed on getting players from one or more of the 3 groups who can really make a difference and propel us forwards.
Just saying that at a time when we need some inspired signings and for some of our prospects to step up, the "worth a punt" suggestions are generally uninspiring or unrealistic.
I thought Medo was an inspired signing. Not shown us anything exceptional yet but it's clear he's a good player and we got him for an affordable price so I think there's hope for us in the transfer market.

If by punt you mean an Irish pound, then yes he might be worth taking a look at.

I'd offer him 25k a week if we could fuckoff Ngog.

I don't think he'd come for that though.

The only time in his entire career that he has returned a decent goal tally is when he was at Rovers. That apart he's failed miserably. When he went back to Rovers on loan he scored ZERO goals in 9 starts and he's done f*** all since.
Add to that the fact that he does no work for the team and it's obvious he's not as good as Ngog and I'd be gobsmacked if Dougie even looked at the lazy tosspot.

chipbutty wrote:SA knew that City wanted him so held out till Mark Hughes up't his bid to £19mill then hardly played him.

Probably the worst grammatical error I've seen on a forum. And I post on Wanderers Mad. Your position in the Grammar Police is fast becoming untenable.

Never struck me as a player worthy of the money paid for him.

bit of a lump really.

obviously won't be coming here, thank goodness.