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Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:59 pm

Shadow of the player last season won't get nothing like that now

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:04 pm

footiexmadx wrote:Shadow of the player last season won't get nothing like that now

Hindsight is a fabulous thing mate. Were you saying that at the time the supposed bid came in because I certainly wasn’t.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:08 pm

I said I'd swap him for hemed and £££

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:08 pm

footiexmadx wrote:I said I'd swap him for hemed and £££

Fair enough then :thumbup:

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:49 pm

Should have, could have (according the reports only) but didn't and few complained at the time! ;)

He's been out injured, was insulted by the manager in some respects with his comments, and now he is on his way back. Give him (Zohore) some leeway instead of 'looking' to put him down. He'll do a job for City in the second half of the season

Keep the faith when others are losing the plot! :thumbright: :ayatollah:

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:57 pm

I would have taken far less than that if it was offered. I have said plenty of times that apart from a three month period at the start of last year, his stats are very ordinary. I have never rated him as highly as nearly everyone else on here, and in fact I thought I was on my own when I said that I think he is a 10 goal a season striker at best.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:40 pm

Sven wrote:Should have, could have (according the reports only) but didn't and few complained at the time! ;)

He's been out injured, was insulted by the manager in some respects with his comments, and now he is on his way back. Give him (Zohore) some leeway instead of 'looking' to put him down. He'll do a job for City in the second half of the season

Keep the faith when others are losing the plot! :thumbright: :ayatollah:


Well said. At the end of the day what would it have said about our ambition and expectations if we had sold Zohore for 15m on August 30th. I still think he has more to offer and you cant blame him when the service he is receiving from the wingers and midfield is laughable. I bet even Harry Kane would struggle up front for us in this team atm. People need to get behind him and support him instead of having ago at a player who's not getting any chances.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 7:20 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
footiexmadx wrote:Shadow of the player last season won't get nothing like that now

Hindsight is a fabulous thing mate. Were you saying that at the time the supposed bid came in because I certainly wasn’t.


Exactly what I went to write! :thumbright:

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:27 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
footiexmadx wrote:Shadow of the player last season won't get nothing like that now

Hindsight is a fabulous thing mate. Were you saying that at the time the supposed bid came in because I certainly wasn’t.

I said at the time sell for £16mas long as the money would be reinstated in the team.I don’t think we would get £5m at the mo so keep him now!

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:35 pm

Zahore isn't the problem . Its the lack of quality midfield and wingers to play alongside him that we have lacked over the years.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:42 pm

MalagaCF wrote:Zahore isn't the problem . Its the lack of quality midfield and wingers to play alongside him that we have lacked over the years.

Agree but if we sold him for 15m just imagine 8m for a replacement striker and 7m for a midfielder!

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:23 pm

theclaw wrote:
MalagaCF wrote:Zahore isn't the problem . Its the lack of quality midfield and wingers to play alongside him that we have lacked over the years.

Agree but if we sold him for 15m just imagine 8m for a replacement striker and 7m for a midfielder!

If we could use £15M on replacements I’m sure NW would have considered it but it would have probably been more like £1.5M. The days of big transfer fees are over for us atm and I can see the sense in it tbh

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:39 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
theclaw wrote:
MalagaCF wrote:Zahore isn't the problem . Its the lack of quality midfield and wingers to play alongside him that we have lacked over the years.

Agree but if we sold him for 15m just imagine 8m for a replacement striker and 7m for a midfielder!

If we could use £15M on replacements I’m sure NW would have considered it but it would have probably been more like £1.5M. The days of big transfer fees are over for us atm and I can see the sense in it tbh

Disagree as Tan would have sold him.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:46 pm

Should have, should have .... not should of :banghead:

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:34 am

theclaw wrote:
bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
theclaw wrote:
MalagaCF wrote:Zahore isn't the problem . Its the lack of quality midfield and wingers to play alongside him that we have lacked over the years.

Agree but if we sold him for 15m just imagine 8m for a replacement striker and 7m for a midfielder!

If we could use £15M on replacements I’m sure NW would have considered it but it would have probably been more like £1.5M. The days of big transfer fees are over for us atm and I can see the sense in it tbh

Disagree as Tan would have sold him.


I’m saying that IF he was sold, NW would have nowhere near £15M to spend on replacement players. Are you disagreeing with that?

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:06 am

Steve Zodiak wrote:I would have taken far less than that if it was offered. I have said plenty of times that apart from a three month period at the start of last year, his stats are very ordinary. I have never rated him as highly as nearly everyone else on here, and in fact I thought I was on my own when I said that I think he is a 10 goal a season striker at best.


Did you say that at the time?

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:03 am

maccydee wrote:
Steve Zodiak wrote:I would have taken far less than that if it was offered. I have said plenty of times that apart from a three month period at the start of last year, his stats are very ordinary. I have never rated him as highly as nearly everyone else on here, and in fact I thought I was on my own when I said that I think he is a 10 goal a season striker at best.


Did you say that at the time?



yes he did...
not that i agree.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:07 am

dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Steve Zodiak wrote:I would have taken far less than that if it was offered. I have said plenty of times that apart from a three month period at the start of last year, his stats are very ordinary. I have never rated him as highly as nearly everyone else on here, and in fact I thought I was on my own when I said that I think he is a 10 goal a season striker at best.


Did you say that at the time?



yes he did...
not that i agree.


Fans who have put their faith in Zohore as being the prolific scorer we have been waiting for are probably going to be disappointed. That is just my opinion, and has been for the last year or more. I think he is unpredictable, and has a habit of going missing in games. He can be good without a doubt, but for me he is inconsistent. I do not believe that he is capable of getting any more goals than Bogle over the course of a season if they were to play the same amount of games.
I have always had these views, and so far he has done nothing to change my mind. Take away the first couple of months of last year, and his stats are useless. That's what I mean about his inconsistency. I know that virtually nobody else on this forum agrees with my view on Zohore (or much else for that matter), and he has plenty of time to prove me wrong.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:31 am

I'm sorry Zahore is far better than Bogle!! He made JT look like a parks player. The guy has just come back from a 3 month injury which included an op. He's also a big unit so would be harder to get back to full fitness than a smaller player. I don't think he's worth 15mil but at the time it was right at the end of the window, we were top and it would have sent out all the wrong messages. He's got a world cup to go to in the summer so I'm expecting a big second half of the season off him!!

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 12:05 pm

Nickoblue23 wrote:I'm sorry Zahore is far better than Bogle!! He made JT look like a parks player. The guy has just come back from a 3 month injury which included an op. He's also a big unit so would be harder to get back to full fitness than a smaller player. I don't think he's worth 15mil but at the time it was right at the end of the window, we were top and it would have sent out all the wrong messages. He's got a world cup to go to in the summer so I'm expecting a big second half of the season off him!!


I'm not saying he is not a better player than Bogle, just that he I don't think his goal scoring is likely to be any better. He is almost 24 years old, and I believe he has scored around 25 first team goals in total throughout his career, a big chunk of which came in a brief 3 month spell around this time last year. Apart from those 3 months, his strike rate looks quite poor. That is not to say he can't improve and start knocking a few in, but so far there has not been a lot there to suggest he is going to be the 25 goal a season striker that some thought he may be when those inflated valuations were floating around back in the Summer.
Hope he proves me wrong, would be nice to have a 20 goal a season striker again. I'm just not convinced Zohore is the one.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 12:55 pm

I think you need to look at what he's been asked to do for the team. You won't see many strikers who lead the line on their own getting 25+ goals. Earnshaw had Thorne, Chopra had Bothroyed etc. I've always thought of him as 10-15 goals a season player but what he brings when fully fit is someone who has pace in behind as well as being good at linking up attacks. He needs to improve his heading and I think he would add 5 goals a season to his game a bit like Chris Wood.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:59 pm

Steve Zodiak wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Steve Zodiak wrote:I would have taken far less than that if it was offered. I have said plenty of times that apart from a three month period at the start of last year, his stats are very ordinary. I have never rated him as highly as nearly everyone else on here, and in fact I thought I was on my own when I said that I think he is a 10 goal a season striker at best.


Did you say that at the time?



yes he did...
not that i agree.


Fans who have put their faith in Zohore as being the prolific scorer we have been waiting for are probably going to be disappointed. That is just my opinion, and has been for the last year or more. I think he is unpredictable, and has a habit of going missing in games. He can be good without a doubt, but for me he is inconsistent. I do not believe that he is capable of getting any more goals than Bogle over the course of a season if they were to play the same amount of games.
I have always had these views, and so far he has done nothing to change my mind. Take away the first couple of months of last year, and his stats are useless. That's what I mean about his inconsistency. I know that virtually nobody else on this forum agrees with my view on Zohore (or much else for that matter), and he has plenty of time to prove me wrong.



personally i thought he was the key to our early season form. agree about his goal ratio but the way we play is always going to handicap that for whoever you play there.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:44 pm

dogfound wrote:
Steve Zodiak wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Steve Zodiak wrote:I would have taken far less than that if it was offered. I have said plenty of times that apart from a three month period at the start of last year, his stats are very ordinary. I have never rated him as highly as nearly everyone else on here, and in fact I thought I was on my own when I said that I think he is a 10 goal a season striker at best.


Did you say that at the time?



yes he did...
not that i agree.


Fans who have put their faith in Zohore as being the prolific scorer we have been waiting for are probably going to be disappointed. That is just my opinion, and has been for the last year or more. I think he is unpredictable, and has a habit of going missing in games. He can be good without a doubt, but for me he is inconsistent. I do not believe that he is capable of getting any more goals than Bogle over the course of a season if they were to play the same amount of games.
I have always had these views, and so far he has done nothing to change my mind. Take away the first couple of months of last year, and his stats are useless. That's what I mean about his inconsistency. I know that virtually nobody else on this forum agrees with my view on Zohore (or much else for that matter), and he has plenty of time to prove me wrong.



personally i thought he was the key to our early season form. agree about his goal ratio but the way we play is always going to handicap that for whoever you play there.


I agree, he and a few others were key players in our great start to the season. He seems to lose interest from time to time. In some games he works as hard as anyone, in others his mind seems to be somewhere else. I have no doubt the potential to score goals is there, he just needs to start showing it on a consistent basis, something he has not done yet throughout his career. He certainly has the time to do it, but I think he is coming up to 24 years old, so now would be a good time to start.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:56 pm

very easy to say. it would have sent out the wrong message had we sold our best player without enough time to replace with someone anywhere near his quality.

his 'market value' has dropped as he's been injured, but a strong showing from now until the end of the season and articles like this will soon look silly. we'd still get at least £12m in january if we wanted to cash in, which we won't.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:04 pm

northernbluebird wrote:very easy to say. it would have sent out the wrong message had we sold our best player without enough time to replace with someone anywhere near his quality.

his 'market value' has dropped as he's been injured, but a strong showing from now until the end of the season and articles like this will soon look silly. we'd still get at least £12m in january if we wanted to cash in, which we won't.


Just shows the over inflated prices of today's footballers. Not arguing about the valuation, but £12m for a player who has averaged 5 goals per season since he has been playing regularly for various sides proves how crazy this game has become.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:05 pm

Steve Zodiak wrote:
northernbluebird wrote:very easy to say. it would have sent out the wrong message had we sold our best player without enough time to replace with someone anywhere near his quality.

his 'market value' has dropped as he's been injured, but a strong showing from now until the end of the season and articles like this will soon look silly. we'd still get at least £12m in january if we wanted to cash in, which we won't.


Just shows the over inflated prices of today's footballers. Not arguing about the valuation, but £12m for a player who has averaged 5 goals per season since he has been playing regularly for various sides proves how crazy this game has become.


he's been outstanding, unplayable at times. vardy had a crap goalscoring record before becoming a goal machine - sometimes the penny drops with some players and they never look back. i can usually tell a flash in the pan, and he doesnt look like one to me. he looks like someone who will get better not worse.

agree that the prices are crazy nowadays, and the craziest prices are for quality strikers.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:24 pm

Some of the posts in here are crazy, the form he showed when fully fit were not a fluke. The guy comes back from injury, is asked to play 4 times in a week in a TEAM struggling and he gets critised, give the guy a break he will come good and get the goals we need to secure a playoff spot.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:44 pm

langstoneBlue wrote:Some of the posts in here are crazy, the form he showed when fully fit were not a fluke. The guy comes back from injury, is asked to play 4 times in a week in a TEAM struggling and he gets critised, give the guy a break he will come good and get the goals we need to secure a playoff spot.

in a nutshell mate :notworthy:

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:13 am

I never understand why fans care about a players price when being sold it’s not like it’s going to them personally or highly unlikely the money would have been given to be invested in transfers for Cardiff even if it was their would be no gaurantee these transfers would be succesful. Transfer dealing a basically just done between the money men. I understand fans talking about who they would like to see brought in or who is worth keeping or selling but when it comes to the money being transferred I just find it very odd when people say things like we should have taken that as if it somehow benefits them how much someone is sold for.

Re: Should of sold zohore for £15m

Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:17 am

KEEP THE FAITH.....He will start banging them in soon enough. :ayatollah: