Marvin Sordell - Page 2

The Bootle Rover · #11 02-02-10, 10:09 PM

Some strange turns in the messages here.....Sonko, I'm starting to think your a spy in the camp, justifying at every turn Johnsons ability, wishes and seemingly knowing his thoughts even!!!!!!

And this despite no hint of leadership from the chap himself on any forum, never mind the local press.

Never has so little been done by a chairman to at least try to prevent a team being relegated. Yet still you sing his praises.

I expect our loan saviour is being asked for far too much. Even an experienced and proven goalscorer would be granted a period of adjustment to the team/league/style so I hope we dont burden him with unrealistic expectations.

This far into the season we have 26 pts from 27 games, from the remaining 19 games I see us picking up around 21 pts giving a total of only 47 and most likely relegation. Unless others do a lot worse and Southend maybe go into administration - then we may just survive. I live in hope.

And as ever, Johnson out out out.

Al Jolson Singing Mammy · #12 02-02-10, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by The Bootle Rover

Some strange turns in the messages here.....Sonko, I'm starting to think your a spy in the camp, justifying at every turn Johnsons ability, wishes and seemingly knowing his thoughts even!!!!!!

And as ever, Johnson out out out.

Your are a legend mate...... first person to make sense on here in a long long time

bigmart · #13 02-02-10, 10:45 PM

Its ok saying johnson out but who is going to pay him the near £6 million we owe him as he wont right it off and as a businessman who realisticly would?

SonkORLY? · #14 02-02-10, 11:21 PM

Quite.

If any of you would like to quote any instance where I've heaped "praise" on Peter Johnson I'd be very impressed as I never have done at any point. Good luck searching.

PJ leaving the club is quite obviously mutually beneficial but hugely unrealistic. So I'm just saying, you can criticise him for lots of things, but you can't bloody criticise him for bringing in a player on loan.

roverstillidie · #15 03-02-10, 12:33 AM

Sordell looks like he has quite quick feet in that footage which is something that can't be said of Curran. That number 23 for Leeds also looks quite good, I wonder if we could get him on loan

SCooperSomersaults · #16 03-02-10, 12:56 AM

Thanks for the link to that goal. A nice sharp turn and although a bit lucky to get the ball back, a nice finish in the end. Looks promising, but then Kithson Bain looked promising on youtube!

We'll see on Saturday anyway should he feature.

As for Peter Johnson. Would like to see someone take over but you're right he has bankrolled the club for the last 20 odd years and money doesn't grow on trees. But it looks unlikely that a wealthy investor will take the club off his hands any time soon. Shall we have a whip round???

Ian · #17 03-02-10, 01:42 AM

The PJ out shouts are getting boring now. PJ wants out just as much as some of you guys want him out. He's made it clear in the past the club has been up for sale numerous times, and surprise surprise, no buyers..

Regarding Marvin, he might shake up the strikers in fighting for a place but you can't expect too much from an 18 year old with a handful of games under his belt. It gives the lad possible exposure to competitive games. Still doesn't change the fact that after the month ends, we are still stuck with an inadequate strike force.

roverstillidie · #18 03-02-10, 01:48 PM

Sordell arrived at the club before the Yeovil game so it's not exactly a last ditch signing.

bigmart · #19 04-02-10, 10:10 PM

On the johnson issue it was strongly rumoured a few years ago that stephen vaughan was going to buy us before he took over at chester, so if people think that johnson is bad look at the position chester are in

TheBunnyBellEnd · #20 05-02-10, 03:39 PM

Ok Sordell he isnt what we all wanted and hoped for. But we are 3rd bottom in league 1 ffs. We are getting around 5000 at a home game, and are very much in a relegation dog fight. we are no longer a club that has the capacity to sign good established players and cant compete financially with many teams in our division.

However I try and look for the positives, Les tried to bring in Vernon and Ecclestone both turned us down they probably didnt fancy a relegation dog fight so why would we want them? At least Sordell has the b*llocks to come here and doesnt want to shirk away from the challenge! The lad may turn out to be a star noone on here knows. I would much sooner have a player who has come because he wants too rather than a player who comes because there is nowhere else. Les said we tried to get him in the last window however Watford were unwilling to allow him out on loan, this makes me think he has been watching him for a while. In this window Watford contacted Les to give him first refusal.
I would love it love it if he banged in a trick on saturday.

On the subject of Pj the man is not interested and lost that loving feeling for the club ages ago, its a good job that the club have people like Les, Shaun and many others who do, and as long as the club has people like this with the clubs best interest at heart we will be ok. All clubs like ours have ups and downs and this is a period of transition things will pick up. Keep the faith boys things are always darkest before the light.

Good to see you back Al!!!!