Craig Bellamy

[neil999]

i'd have him for footballing reasons, would want to give him a lobotomy first tho...

 

[chris_b]

The season before last he was actually one of Citys best players - they looked a much more dangerous side when he was playing for them.

to me - the fact that he played for Liverpool is of no importance what so ever - if he's good enough I dont care.

Given we have limited resources, Bellamy could do a decent job for us and certainly add something that we are in dire need of (pace!)

 

[bag a yoko]

i quite like the guy. might get into a bit of trouble and doesnt take prisoners but isnt a primadonna. couldnt believe city let him go. just think mancini is a joke.

 

[Librarian]

The season before last he was actually one of Citys best players - they looked a much more dangerous side when he was playing for them.

to me - the fact that he played for Liverpool is of no importance what so ever - if he's good enough I dont care.

Given we have limited resources, Bellamy could do a decent job for us and certainly add something that we are in dire need of (pace!)

Yeah, he was out-performing Robinho at that time. Hard to judge if he's still got it (bit like the Yak) from his time in the Championship. Not too far from Manchester, not too far from Wales - makes sense for him. I think he'd thrive at Goodison for some reason. I'd say, at a guess, an initial loan but if it's a fee, then no more than 2m. I'd be worried this could drag out because he'll not want to give up the Sheiks gold, they want him off the pay-roll, they'll find no club willing to pick up the slack. City will end up paying some severance money after much rangling. A loan might bye-pass all that.

So long as we're left with enough money to buy another forward (after sales) and we can make room to pay both, & it can be done quickly, then yes.

 

[Rook]

He's quality; he's also always injured.

 

[ToffeeBlueNose]

Over-rated and a knbohead to boot, no thanks. He hardly set the championship alight did he. Pace is not an attribute on its own you ned end product and bellamy doesn't always deliver, he had a couple of good seasons thats it, if he's that good why is he constantly looking for a new club, that alone should say something about the lads character. noone wants him cos he's a tool and the cons outwiegh the pros in my opinion.

 

[NickEFC]

I'd take him on loan for a year if City subsidised 60% of his salary, but not permanently.
The lad is a horrible tw@, who would disrupt the dressing room, BUT, he can do a job on the pitch and if it bought us a further 12 months without going backwards, I'd take him.
But don't expect me to like the c**t.

 

[BlueTak]

His wage is too high, I doubt we'd offer him anywhere near what he wants. I'm sure someone else will.

I don't want him here anyway.

 

[efcforever]

Yeah because we have plenty of players with pace who can play outstanding either upfront or wide , who want to win every week , plus with having a large transfer kitty we can always pick and choose who we want , plus when you've got a player like Louis Saha who plays an puts a shift in 35 games a season , our fans scare me they really do ......... If we get the chance with Bellamy we need to jump at it with both feet every club / team who wins trophys HAS to have a character / characters with a nasty streak I think it's one of the things which we are missing a player with a bit of steel who does more than just point on the pitch who actually opens his mouth , sadly our chairman is not big enough to do a deal like this , that's how poor he is ( inept)

Very well said mate! Agree 100%

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Over-rated and a knbohead to boot, no thanks. He hardly set the championship alight did he. Pace is not an attribute on its own you ned end product and bellamy doesn't always deliver, he had a couple of good seasons thats it, if he's that good why is he constantly looking for a new club, that alone should say something about the lads character. noone wants him cos he's a tool and the cons outwiegh the pros in my opinion.

Have some rep. Brilliant.

 

[when i score we riot]

Just reading up on random other transfer news, and i found this piece a little interesting:
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11787_7024145,00.html

The story concerns Erik Huseklepp, a semi-young, pacy dribbler from Brann SK in Bergen (a city where i used to live and saw him make his breakthrough) that moved to Bari in january before they got relegated. Huseklepp was very hott stuff in Norway from 2008 till this move, also debuting and scoring with the national team, now a regular there. Going to Bari was an obviously terrible move - 5 appearances, 0 goals - which the club itself wasn't able to pay for and now the skillful norwegian international with the younger-than-he-really-is-face and terrible finishing skills is desperately on a search for a new club.

Thing is, we've been linked with him before. But a lot of clubs were. Funkier thing is, he's being linked with Celtic, who are in this article simultaneously linked with our two top depress-o-matic targets, Bothroyd and Bell-end-amy.

By invoking The Law of Jarg Journalism, we may consider him an Everton target. Fancy a go? He's honestly not good enough and i'm not being serious, i just think it's hilariously depressing, this linking business.

 

[blue61]

Bellamy, sometimes deservedly gets quite a negative press, but you rarely hear him mouthing off about the percentage of his wage he pays into his football academy in sierra leone currently totalling £800,000. And anyone who hits John Arne Risse round the head with a golf club deserves some praise!

 

[Warzycha's Caterpillar]

Bit of an inside track on Bellamy here. A good friend of mine grew up with him in South Wales anf they played in the Juniors together at school and for Bellamys dads team. He's known him a fair while and from hearing about the huge amounts of charity work and donations he makes to kids foundations he's not actually as much of a 'knob' as I thought he was. One amusing story I've been told is that he went to one of his old schools in Cardiff (Rhumney I think) to ask to be involved with the sports set up there and was rejected because of his image. Instead he ended up being involved at a school in Wrexham and they received a donation of about 250k. He also sent a huge chunk of cash to Wrexham FC to stop them going out of business. He has numerous charity set ups including sports foundations for kids in Africa which have run into the millions.

Sure he may be a gobby so-and-so, but from I'm told he's actually quite a generous bloke and maybe not the character we see painted in the media and before everyone starts on that 250k and all the other donations he makes are short change, they may well be, but at least he's doing something with his time that is changing lives elsewhere. Not all footballers do this.

How many of you didn't giggle at his comments on John Terry?

P.S. My mate isn't a chav, he's a very much middle-class IT boffin! And this doesn't mean I want him at Everton, it's just a bit of inside track on the guy.

 

[EFCNIK]

I like him. He's such a knob that it makes me like him. Just like Drogba who is so evil that whenever the camera zooms into those loveless eyes, I can't help but give a short mwhahaha type laugh.

[Poor language removed] players make the world go round.

Unless its diouf.

 

[Neiler]

Hes the type of player you hate when he plays against you - as Cahill is to opposition fans - but if he played for you well!!!

Ill say one thing for the lid he has passion. I would if the Zog isnt a goer.