So Beckford isn't good enough for us - according to the 'experts'

[Legacy]

dammit - can't put christophe on ignore

jj is good enough for us - it's why he was playing again today

Which is also why he's been on the bench for the majority of the season, obviously. Only playing today because Huddlestone was injured, obviously.

It's actually quite funny how you rate both Jenas and Beckford when it was a Jenas horrendous back pass that set Beckford up for a horrendous one on one waste against our goalkeeper.

Beckford's a 26 year old striker who has only progressed as high as League One. Sure, he's scoring goals now, but there have been plenty of players that scored goals for fun in the lower leagues and then proved they couldn't make it in the top league, where defenders are far superior.

And to consider him better than Ireland's all time leading scorer, a man that has commanded a total of about £60m in transfer fees making him one of the most expensive players of all time and a man that has scored and the tenth highest goal scorer in Premier League history is as absurd as it is laughable.

And you ignoring people that disagree with you? Pathetic. Why don't you restart this thread after Beckford joins a Premier League team and plays against the same quality of player that Keane has spent his entire career scoring against, unlike Beckford who so far has spent the majority of his career playing against the likes of Harrow Borough and Craw Wanderers.

*pops onto DC Boy's ignore list*

 

[southgatespur40]

shame we listened to the 'experts' and got rid of the real darren bent then

well a player like bent just doesn't fit in to our style of playing the game, defoe is a much better player/finisher.

 

[DC_Boy]

well a player like bent just doesn't fit in to our style of playing the game, defoe is a much better player/finisher.

and keane?

 

[DC_Boy]

Which is also why he's been on the bench for the majority of the season, obviously. Only playing today because Huddlestone was injured, obviously.

It's actually quite funny how you rate both Jenas and Beckford when it was a Jenas horrendous back pass that set Beckford up for a horrendous one on one waste against our goalkeeper.

Beckford's a 26 year old striker who has only progressed as high as League One. Sure, he's scoring goals now, but there have been plenty of players that scored goals for fun in the lower leagues and then proved they couldn't make it in the top league, where defenders are far superior.

And to consider him better than Ireland's all time leading scorer, a man that has commanded a total of about £60m in transfer fees making him one of the most expensive players of all time and a man that has scored and the tenth highest goal scorer in Premier League history is as absurd as it is laughable.

And you ignoring people that disagree with you? Pathetic. Why don't you restart this thread after Beckford joins a Premier League team and plays against the same quality of player that Keane has spent his entire career scoring against, unlike Beckford who so far has spent the majority of his career playing against the likes of Harrow Borough and Craw Wanderers.

*pops onto DC Boy's ignore list*

and done

 

[mil1lion]

I didn't rate him tonight. He scored a 2 yarder and a penalty. Thats it.

 

[Legacy]

and done

:grin:

 

[southgatespur40]

and keane?

keane was good in his first period at the club but now he is just tosh, completely off the boil but he should not be replaced by a player like beckford!

 

[Spurs_Bear]

If you were as right as you think you are DC, this thread would be relevant.

But it isn't, and you're not.

Dean Marney once scored two proper goals in a game, doesn't mean he is a good player. I would have backed myself to do everything that Beckford did today, and I don't even play Sunday league anymore, at 26 yes old, the biggest mistake he could make would be to move out of league 1.

He's not even as good as Lee Trundle.

 

[Dougal]

Let's leave it to the real experts, Kris Commons anybody? Oh go on, he 'made his name' in a cup game against us, what more do you want?

Re-engage the ignore button if I were you..

 

[nicdic]

:lol:

 

[dcarney75]

This thread is both strange and depressing, and just seems like a puerile point-scoring exercise.

Beckford has been good this year, but doesn't look to me like anything other than a bog-standard PL striker at best, a la Bobby Zamora.

Keane is admittedly well off the boil, but the Keane of 2004/05/06 is just in a different class, in terms of intelligence, movement, touch, instinct, everything.

And just because Bent's scored a few for Sunderland doesn't prove anyone right, or prove that we were wrong to let him go. They're much better set for a striker like him; for him to have fitted in like that at Spurs we would have had to have played in a considerably different style.

Bent has looked, at times this season, like a better player than he ever did at Spurs, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't have sold him when we did. Some players just fit better at certain clubs.

 

[spurs mental]

you give me one good reason why i should take seriously anyone who doesn't rate beckford

It's not that people don't rate him though, they do, just not as highly as you do. He's obviously a good player. But for me, he's like David Bentley. Believes his own hype to much. I don't think he's good enough for us. He could probably play in the PL, but not at the level we want to be at.

I know Leeds fans who don't even rate him that highly, and some say hes a Championship player at best.

plus explain why beckford isn't an improvement on keane - then i might change my mind

i listened first time around - i don't know why i bothered because anyone with eyes to see can work out that beckford is step up on keane

why should i listen to the same nonsense the second time around?

When Beckford scores over 120 goals in the PL, you come back to me. Then, perhaps, you could say he's a step up on Keane. At the moment he's playing in League One. The standard of play isn't as high as the PL, much and all as it seems you'd like to think.

ok - so just to say it's you who are making a complete mug of yourself christophe

and i will be back at regular intervals as beckford proves himself ahead of keane to remind you of it

just as i was right about bent v keane, and so many other things, so i will be right about beckford v keane - i've no doubts at all about it

He can't prove himself to better then Keane, when he's playing two leagues below Keane. Unless you're comparing the standard of League One with the PL?

There's players who have scored plenty of goals in lower leagues, and not been able to step up again. David Nugent to name but one. I'm sure there's more but I'm not really that bothered thinking of them.

so he wouldn't add more than keane?

i disagree

You want to make Beckford captain too?! mg:

 

[donny1013]

Rob Earnshaw, Bobby Zamora, David Healy, Nathan Ellington, Marlon King, Sylvan Ebanks Blake etc etc. The only two players that have really made the step up in the last 10 years or so from scoring in the lower leagues to scoring in the EPL have been Kevin Phillips who got the European golden boot in his first EPL season with Sunderland and Darren Bent.

 

[DJS]

I wonder if DC Boy spends time in front of the mirror discussing with himself how right he is about everything and how that Harry really don't know shit compared to him.

And then retires to bed, snuggled up with his Jermaine Jenas and Jermain Beckford cuddly toys.

I wonder if it's some kind of Jermain(e) fetish... :think:

 

[That Guy]

fail rupstoh i'm afraid

he's put in goals at Ot and WHL

last thing i saw one was top of the prem - the other 4th

Well Keane has scored over a hundred goals for a team who currently are 4th, so stop talking shit all your life. If Beckford was so good, why have the real 'experts', you know, the people that get paid to do the job, not just talk bullshit at a computer, paid the small fee to get him?
You would think they would with him being Irelands all time top goal scorer. Oh wait. No that's Keane isn't it? Still, he is captain of the team 4th in the premiership. No? Oh yeah, Keane again isn't it. Well at least Liverpool paid £18M for him. Ooooh silly me. Keane again wasn't it...

Prat.

 

[yanno]

You're ignoring people because they think Beckford isn't good enough?

DC_Boy is ignoring me because apparently I insulted him in my use of a smiley.

To which I can only say:

:rofl:

 

[chrissivad]

I wonder if DC Boy spends time in front of the mirror discussing with himself how right he is about everything and how that Harry really don't know shit compared to him.

And then retires to bed, snuggled up with his Jermaine Jenas and Jermain Beckford cuddly toys.

I wonder if it's some kind of Jermain(e) fetish... :think:

He probably got the mirror on ignore as well

 

[That Guy]

I'm sure the world is a very lonely, empty place for him...

 

[Goldman]

This message is hidden because DC_Boy is on your ignore list.

 

[sharky127]

I guess we'll find out next season after he joins Everton in the summer. They have apparently got a pre-contract in place.

Me, i'm not sure about him. Against Utd he did nothing apart from score a goal, and he did nothing against us except score 2 goals...on second thoughts??

Granted he does get into decent positions but his finishing he poor and if the game is not going his way he gets bored and can't be arsed. I can't see him settling the world alight next season as i think the premiership is one rung up the ladder too high for him.