Lewis Grabban

[Mr Soul '68]

Re: Lewis Grabban

There'll be plenty of loans available shortly.

Just have to wait.

Let's just keep out fingers crossed that it's not another Oumar Niasse or even an Eddie Johnson!

[BLUETIT]

Re: Lewis Grabban

Let's just keep out fingers crossed that it's not another Oumar Niasse or even an Eddie Johnson!

Add Rickie Lambert to that list

[Mr Soul '68]

Re: Lewis Grabban

Add Rickie Lambert to that list

We signed Lambert a few years too late. Him and Adam Lallana tore us a new one in what was I think Malky's last game in charge, a 3-0 home defeat to Southampton (Boxing Day?). They were 3-0 up in 27 mins and just cruised in 2nd hear for the rest of the game. The pair of them looked awesome that day

[BLUETIT]

Re: Lewis Grabban

We signed Lambert a few years too late. Him and Adam Lallana tore us a new one in what was I think Malky's last game in charge, a 3-0 home defeat to Southampton (Boxing Day?). They were 3-0 up in 27 mins and just cruised in 2nd hear for the rest of the game. The pair of them looked awesome that day

We sign a lot of players a few years too late

[FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead]

Re: Lewis Grabban

Grabban came across as an absolute grade A bellend in that Sunderland documentary a few years back. I'd be surprised if we're in for him.

[olderblue]

Re: Lewis Grabban

Hopefully the days of signing players whose best days are long behind them on lengthy contracts are gone for good.
If we did go down this route of bringing in an experienced old head, who can help our other strikers develop I'd like to see it on a short term contract, so there still hungry enough to perform rather than offering one final payment for their pension plan

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Re: Lewis Grabban

Would feel like a panic buy.

[NYCBlue]

Re: Lewis Grabban

We sign a lot of players a few years too late

Malky had one more game after that. Sunderland I think.

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: Lewis Grabban

Malky had one more game after that. Sunderland I think.

He didn't. His last game was the 3-0 defeat to Southampton. David Kerslake was in charge for the Sunderland game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/25474665

[Citizen's Nephew]

Re: Lewis Grabban

No, I’d rather we look elsewhere. He’s thirty five in January, I reckon it’d be a desperate move to sign someone of that age who has only scored one Premier League goal in his career.

Blimey. Callum Paterson scored 4! We were in for Grabban that PL season weren't we? Didn't he mess us around?

[fugsyphil]

Re: Lewis Grabban

I don't get this thread at all. He's well past his best for me

[J R Hartley]

Re: Lewis Grabban

There’s no doubt about it he’s been a good goal scorer at championship level and may continue to do so for a couple of years yet but is giving a 34/35 year old a 2 year deal the way forward and inkeeping with the new transfer strategy? I don’t think so. It’s a move backwards imo. Ok off the bench but are we going to use a fair amount of our budget on such a player?

If he’s turning down a Forest contract he ain’t coming here for 12k a week.

[WJ99mobile]

Re: Lewis Grabban

I don't get this thread at all. He's well past his best for me

His best was championship quality.

He’s past his mediocre.

Move on

[NYCBlue]

Re: Lewis Grabban

He didn't. His last game was the 3-0 defeat to Southampton. David Kerslake was in charge for the Sunderland game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/25474665

That means my first and only Premier League was Malky's last. It was a dreadful experience. I think it was my first game at the CCS. I had to sit on my own and I wanted to leave at half-time.

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: Lewis Grabban

That means my first and only Premier League was Malky's last. It was a dreadful experience. I think it was my first game at the CCS. I had to sit on my own and I wanted to leave at half-time.

Sounds great. But then you were supporting the rebranded Cardiff City, so you got what you deserved.

My first Premier League game was a 3-2 defeat to Arsenal under Warnock. Entertaining stuff, although Arsenal were comfortably better than the scoreline suggests.

I saw four home games in 2018/19 - 2-3 v Arsenal, 0-5 v Manchester City, 1-2 v Burnley and 0-2 v Liverpool. I did see City win 2-1 at Southampton in my only away game that season, though. 90th minute winner by Kenneth Zohore. Whatever happened to him?