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Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:42 am

10 million on the table???

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:49 am

He's an animal and I think he could step up - gets into little pockets of space many strikers don't, his first touch is rarely poor and he can score from anywhere.

Cracking player :bluescarf:

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:58 am

He couldn’t step up to the championship last time he scored seven goals.

He’s definitely not good enough.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:29 pm

I’d go for Neal Maupay from Brentford

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:47 pm

The club need to bring in quality players proven at this level, can’t keep taking a gamble on players to step up particularly if we are in a relegation scrap.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:01 pm

I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:31 pm

bridgendbluebird30 wrote:The club need to bring in quality players proven at this level, can’t keep taking a gamble on players to step up particularly if we are in a relegation scrap.

£££££ - ??

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 2:51 pm

Hes not even proven at Championship level, I definitely don't think we should be taking any risks on him.

I would be looking at more established championship players such as Kodija or even Jay Rodriguez first.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:22 pm

phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:49 pm

Kodjia for me,he is on fire at the moment though,so if he continues his gorm till christmas,cant see villa letting him go? And if they do,will be priced to high for us,as we know,jan prices are always inflated.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:00 pm

We need a proven PL striker and need to throw big money at it. That’s all we need. If we got £20m off Tan for January and we’ve got a sniff of staying up then we need to throw it all on a proven goal scorer.

We cannot gamble on unproven players all the time, we need experience too.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 5:51 pm

Kodjia an grigg ffs

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:08 pm

Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:16 pm

phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:41 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
bridgendbluebird30 wrote:The club need to bring in quality players proven at this level, can’t keep taking a gamble on players to step up particularly if we are in a relegation scrap.

£££££ - ??


No brainer. Come January and we are struggling to score goals I believe the club will splash the cash on a striker however as everyone knows it’s a hard window to get decent players. As with Burnley when they spent 15m on Chris Wood, bringing in a striker could be the difference getting a huge cash reward for staying up rather than slipping back into the Championship. (Not saying that Wood is a quality striker but he certainly done a job and helped to keep them up). I think that the club would spend the money if need by. Look at the ones we missed out on in the summer window. I don’t know why so many are worried about every penny that the club spends. I have confidence in the owner & board to run a steady ship and if they think that a certain player can be afforded so be it. 24m in the last window is not going to break the bank. Without breaking the bank speculate to accumulate.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:34 pm

Wigan here's 15 million take it or leave it. Lol, lol

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:50 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:I’d go for Neal Maupay from Brentford


Seems a good player, sure i heard warnock saying something about liking him last season

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:53 pm

Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.


So we can judge players from one season then I guess Vardy also wasn’t good enough then as he only scored 4 goals in his first season in the champ. It’s pathetic to even suggest a player isn’t good enough after 1 season at that level, especially strikers as so much depends on how their team is doing and creating chances for them. Wigan were awful that season so 7 goals isn’t bad.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:00 pm

Fu.... it. Wigan here's 20 mill

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:03 pm

phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.


So we can judge players from one season then I guess Vardy also wasn’t good enough then as he only scored 4 goals in his first season in the champ. It’s pathetic to even suggest a player isn’t good enough after 1 season at that level, especially strikers as so much depends on how their team is doing and creating chances for them. Wigan were awful that season so 7 goals isn’t bad.

Vardy is a one off.

You can’t really compare his rise to anybody’s.

He’s Eoin Doyle 2.0

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:35 pm

Actually there have been a lot of players who rose from obscurity like Jamie Vardy down the years, but I'd think that if we haven't sorted ourselves out for goal scoring by January and we're not otherwise doing too badly , then the club would find the money for a much better grade of goal scorer.
I'm actually confused about how we let former targets like Lewis Grabban and Josh Windass go to somewhat unfashionable clubs for not much money. Neither is Jimmy Greaves, but they could both have done the job for us

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:13 am

Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.


So we can judge players from one season then I guess Vardy also wasn’t good enough then as he only scored 4 goals in his first season in the champ. It’s pathetic to even suggest a player isn’t good enough after 1 season at that level, especially strikers as so much depends on how their team is doing and creating chances for them. Wigan were awful that season so 7 goals isn’t bad.

Vardy is a one off.

You can’t really compare his rise to anybody’s.

He’s Eoin Doyle 2.0


Vardy also only cost Leicester City £1m :roll: Even allowing for inflation that's still e pretty good deal.

I would gamble £1m on Griggs (even though I only see him as a mid Championship striker at best) but for £10m it would have to be someone proven at Prem level or equivalent.

If we're still in with a shot of staying up in January I can see big money being spent on a permanent or loan signing but only someone who has done it at Prem level before.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:08 am

Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.


So we can judge players from one season then I guess Vardy also wasn’t good enough then as he only scored 4 goals in his first season in the champ. It’s pathetic to even suggest a player isn’t good enough after 1 season at that level, especially strikers as so much depends on how their team is doing and creating chances for them. Wigan were awful that season so 7 goals isn’t bad.

Vardy is a one off.

You can’t really compare his rise to anybody’s.

He’s Eoin Doyle 2.0


You are talking utter nonsense.

Andrew Johnson-1
Troy Deeney-2
Danny Ings- 3
Glen Murray-6

I guess everyone should have realised none of these were good enough for the champ after one season aswell :laughing6:

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:31 am

Jay Rodriguez too expensive?

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:33 am

phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.


So we can judge players from one season then I guess Vardy also wasn’t good enough then as he only scored 4 goals in his first season in the champ. It’s pathetic to even suggest a player isn’t good enough after 1 season at that level, especially strikers as so much depends on how their team is doing and creating chances for them. Wigan were awful that season so 7 goals isn’t bad.


You are right, after one season you cannot say someone isnt Championships standard but we have to apply the same logic. After a decent start to the season we cannot assume he is the next Vardy and is worth 10 million.

I would rather not take a 10 million risk on an unproven player, but pay an additional 5-10 million on a proven player at that level.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:02 am

JimCP91 wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.


So we can judge players from one season then I guess Vardy also wasn’t good enough then as he only scored 4 goals in his first season in the champ. It’s pathetic to even suggest a player isn’t good enough after 1 season at that level, especially strikers as so much depends on how their team is doing and creating chances for them. Wigan were awful that season so 7 goals isn’t bad.


You are right, after one season you cannot say someone isnt Championships standard but we have to apply the same logic. After a decent start to the season we cannot assume he is the next Vardy and is worth 10 million.

I would rather not take a 10 million risk on an unproven player, but pay an additional 5-10 million on a proven player at that level.


I agree and I never said we should sign him I was just pointing out the idiocy of the poster claiming he wasn’t good enough for the champ. Though I am still suprised as I have already said that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him down the years. Somebody like Villa when they wasted a bundle on bringing in Hogan for example.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:12 am

Glad no goons on here are in charge of signing players

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:35 am

phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:
Llan_Blue wrote:
phildavies wrote:I’m suprised that a bigger club than Wigan hasn’t come in for him for a few years now.

Because he’s League 1 quality.

That song brought along hype.

Not even a good championship striker imo


He’s only had one season their in his career so don’t really see how you can say he isn’t champ quality when he hasn’t been given a proper chance he will score 20+ for Wigan this year.

Well you can say it because he play a whole season there and only scored 7 goals.
How many seasons do you need to have?

He had a proper chance 38 appearances 7 goals.

He’s basicaly Eoin Doyle but with a catchy song.


So we can judge players from one season then I guess Vardy also wasn’t good enough then as he only scored 4 goals in his first season in the champ. It’s pathetic to even suggest a player isn’t good enough after 1 season at that level, especially strikers as so much depends on how their team is doing and creating chances for them. Wigan were awful that season so 7 goals isn’t bad.

Vardy is a one off.

You can’t really compare his rise to anybody’s.

He’s Eoin Doyle 2.0


You are talking utter nonsense.

Andrew Johnson-1
Troy Deeney-2
Danny Ings- 3
Glen Murray-6

I guess everyone should have realised none of these were good enough for the champ after one season aswell :laughing6:


Have to agree with you.
You can’t judge and you’ve proven it.
Also, like you, I wouldn’t want Grigg here.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:38 am

SirJimmySchoular wrote:Actually there have been a lot of players who rose from obscurity like Jamie Vardy down the years, but I'd think that if we haven't sorted ourselves out for goal scoring by January and we're not otherwise doing too badly , then the club would find the money for a much better grade of goal scorer.
I'm actually confused about how we let former targets like Lewis Grabban and Josh Windass go to somewhat unfashionable clubs for not much money. Neither is Jimmy Greaves, but they could both have done the job for us


We didn’t let Grabban go we didn’t want him in the end and I’m not sure Windy Arse was ever a serious target.

Re: Will grigg in Jan

Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:49 pm

OriginalGrangeEndBlue wrote:
SirJimmySchoular wrote:Actually there have been a lot of players who rose from obscurity like Jamie Vardy down the years, but I'd think that if we haven't sorted ourselves out for goal scoring by January and we're not otherwise doing too badly , then the club would find the money for a much better grade of goal scorer.
I'm actually confused about how we let former targets like Lewis Grabban and Josh Windass go to somewhat unfashionable clubs for not much money. Neither is Jimmy Greaves, but they could both have done the job for us


We didn’t let Grabban go we didn’t want him in the end and I’m not sure Windy Arse was ever a serious target.


Indeed windy arse was just hot air ;)