Covfan Wrote:
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> If the club he signs for can get him on s "pay as
> you play" deal it might be worth it, but he is
> totally deluded if he thinks a team will equal
> what he was getting paid at Newcastle.
I think even he knows he's not going to get half of what he's on at the moment (unless it's some small club trying to get him by throwing money at him).
I fully accept he's nowhere near as good as he was, but he's still struggling to come back from injury - he's not had a sustained spell of fitness, so hopefully after the summer he'll be able to stretch himself a bit more.
I still think he's the best player in the opposition box playing in the higher divisions in England - stick him in a team who will create a lot of chances* and I still think he'll still score 20 per season... if he can get himself playing regularly. Boyd is the only other striker in Britain that I can think of who's got such an instinct of where to be at the right time.
* of course, he might well have done better at Newcastle if they could have got the ball up to the strikers in the past year and a half. Newcastle... couldn't create chances and couldn't defend - wonderful combination!