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This is what Middlesborough fans think of him after 4 goals in a season, where would we be if we had signed him ?

 

Worse of than we are now with another dead duck mon the wages bill we cant shift - well done Chris for saying NO

 

Boro striker Kei Kamara wasn''t exactly inundated with get well soon messages after criticising the club for "doing nothing" when he contracted malaria.

As he often does, Kamara took to Twitter on Friday to let his 40,000 plus followers know that he was had been suffering with the disease.

But enraged fans hit back with force after the front-man tweeted: "Now am feeling better it''s time to say "Thank you MFC & SLFA for doing NOTHING" Am Bless this happen in Kansas were folks care for me."

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Boro trying to off load him along with another one of our ex''s who never made it

 

It’s been suggested Boro could offer a player as part of any deal for Adam Clayton from Huddersfield , who could leave on a free this time next year.

Sierra Leone frontman Kei Kamara and midfielder Jacob Butterfield, who played under Town manager Mark Robins at Barnsley, have been mentioned

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Feel sorry for Kei, guy catches malaria in the build up to his wedding and feels he isn''t getting any support. Probably not right to rant about it on Twitter, but the reaction of the Boro fans is ridiculous. Just goes to show the leeway players get if they are performing on the pitch rather than those fans feel aren''t quite good enough.

 

Hope for Kei''s sake he can arrange a move back to the MLS soon, where he will probably flurish again. Glad Norwich never took the option up to sign him, but it was worth Norwich taking the chance on him for the loan.

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I think we all agreed he wasn''t "the answer" but considering the absolute faliure of our forwards last season I maintain he''d have done a better job of it than the likes of Elmander. It''s a bit out of charachter from him to go accusing Boro of that though. Sounds like he''s trying to engineer a move back to MLS which will flourish with the likes of Kaka and co going back there. He won''t count as a foreigner too so he''ll have plenty of suitors.

Have to say I enjoyed having him at the club and without him, we''d have gone down a year earlier. I thought when he left it meant we had a real good target man lined up. As soon as Elmander joined I had my doubts but hoped he was just back up and a better link up/ target man was round the corner. RvW would have been 10x the player with someone like Kei there to do the dirty work.

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[quote user="Jimmy Smith"]  As soon as Elmander joined I had my doubts but hoped he was just back up and a better link up/ target man was round the corner. RvW would have been 10x the player with someone like Kei there to do the dirty work.[/quote]

Disagree.

 

I thought it was quite obvious Kamara never really knew what to do when we got on the ball. Elmander had a better idea.

 

But neither of them were ever going to be the answer. And just sort of summed up that Hughton was a bit clueless when it came to creating a dangerous forward line.

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At least Kei had a bit of pace compared to Elmander. I thought he looked better on the ball than Elmander did too. I remember one game (I think his debut) he did some great close control to take it away from 3 or 4 defenders. Admittedly being better than Elmander isn''t much but i''d have rathered we kept KK than Elmander. Perhaps we should have just kept Chris Martin all along!

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[quote user=" Badger"]Who/ What is SLFA?[/quote]Sierra Leone football association?

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I wish it would stop

 

Because it''s so depressing to be reminded that we spent £8.5m + £5m on strikers and looking back I think we''d have been much better off keeping GH and buying KK which (even if we''d had to pay a bit more to GH in wages and allowing for not getting the £2m to sell GH or whatever it was), would still have cost us less than Hooper.

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Elmander did a great job here. Probably the most underrated player in the past fifteen years. Considering the complete lack of support and terrible form of his co-strikers. Hooper only managed one goal all season without Elmander alongside him.

Seriously cannot understand why he got/gets so much grief. It''s just completely bemusing!

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[quote user="Gingerpele"]Elmander did a great job here. Probably the most underrated player in the past fifteen years. Considering the complete lack of support and terrible form of his co-strikers. Hooper only managed one goal all season without Elmander alongside him.

Seriously cannot understand why he got/gets so much grief. It''s just completely bemusing![/quote]despite the large amount of guff thats written on here, this is probably one of the funniest things ive readhe was terriblewe got relegated because we didnt score goalsin 120 games in english football he only manage 19 goals, despite 82 games at bolton and god knows how many games without scoring clueless chris thought bringing him back for one last go was a better option than keeping Grant Holt

bonkers

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[quote user="iron_stan"][quote user="Gingerpele"]Elmander did a great job here. Probably the most underrated player in the past fifteen years. Considering the complete lack of support and terrible form of his co-strikers. Hooper only managed one goal all season without Elmander alongside him. Seriously cannot understand why he got/gets so much grief. It''s just completely bemusing![/quote]

despite the large amount of guff thats written on here, this is probably one of the funniest things ive read

he was terrible

we got relegated because we didnt score goals

in 120 games in english football he only manage 19 goals, despite 82 games at bolton and god knows how many games without scoring clueless chris thought bringing him back for one last go was a better option than keeping Grant Holt


bonkers
[/quote]

 

Huzzah! [Y]

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[quote user="iron_stan"][quote user="Gingerpele"]Elmander did a great job here. Probably the most underrated player in the past fifteen years. Considering the complete lack of support and terrible form of his co-strikers. Hooper only managed one goal all season without Elmander alongside him.

Seriously cannot understand why he got/gets so much grief. It''s just completely bemusing![/quote]despite the large amount of guff thats written on here, this is probably one of the funniest things ive readhe was terriblewe got relegated because we didnt score goalsin 120 games in english football he only manage 19 goals, despite 82 games at bolton and god knows how many games without scoring clueless chris thought bringing him back for one last go was a better option than keeping Grant Holtbonkers[/quote]

How do you think players like Heskey and Elmander end up with good reputations in the game?   Its because of their link up play and abilities to create or make space for other players.   The reason Holt was so good was that he could do that and he could score - but it wasn''t that Hughton didn''t keep Holt -  Holt wanted to go.

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Elmander did ok but no more than that, to say he did a "great job" is hugely generous.

 

It took him several games to get up to a decent level of match fitness  - which was to the detriment of the team in that period.

 

When he did sharpen himself up he showed that he was a decent player. He did a reasonable job of working for the team and linking play up but when we were in desperate need of goals there was often little urgency from him to get in the box and make a nuisance of himself. I appreciate he was trying to be of use in other areas but with so little presence in the penalty box he needed to be getting in there.

 

Obviously his track record showed that he''s never been prolific so there was little chance that would change when playing for Norwich (especially under Hughton) but he should still have scored a couple more than he did and that could have made all the difference.

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No, Holt went because his agent found him a 3 year contract and he only had 2 years left on his deal at Norwich, if we had given him another year he would have stayed

 

Hughton jump at the chance to ship him out as he saw him as distruptive as he critized the teams negative style of play

 

Look whoChris replaced Holt with :-

 

Elmander who Talk Sport claimed was Norwich''s highest paid player on £50K per week plus a £2M loan fee to his club

Wolf £8.5M & a 4 year contract @ £40Kpw

 

Well done Chris, the former was well past his sell by date and the latter could not cope with the rigours / physicallity of English football

 

Another years on Holts contract (£32Kpw rumoured) would have cost us £1.7M, yet we wasted £2.6M on Elmander, £11M on Wolf  todate with another 3 years totalling £3M to find unless we can unload him

 

Someone at Norwich made an almighty cockup when they said no to Holt and if we had said yes we would probably still have been in the Prem

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[quote user="Newton"]

No, Holt went because his agent found him a 3 year contract and he only had 2 years left on his deal at Norwich, if we had given him another year he would have stayed

 

Hughton jump at the chance to ship him out as he saw him as distruptive as he critized the teams negative style of play

 

Look whoChris replaced Holt with :-

 

Elmander who Talk Sport claimed was Norwich''s highest paid player on £50K per week plus a £2M loan fee to his club

Wolf £8.5M & a 4 year contract @ £40Kpw

 

Well done Chris, the former was well past his sell by date and the latter could not cope with the rigours / physicallity of English football

 

Another years on Holts contract (£32Kpw rumoured) would have cost us £1.7M, yet we wasted £2.6M on Elmander, £11M on Wolf  todate with another 3 years totalling £3M to find unless we can unload him

 

Someone at Norwich made an almighty cockup when they said no to Holt and if we had said yes we would probably still have been in the Prem

[/quote]

Yes, but we replaced Holt and co with ''better'' players, players with real calibre. Not some ex-tyre fitter who didnt have the ''right'' background. Im sure Hughton still believes this

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it doesnt matter what way you look at, he got 4 assists + 1 goalhe was rubbbbbbbbbiiiiisssssshjust because he was marginally better the wolfswanker doesnt make him good

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[quote user="iron_stan"]''better than''
[/quote]

 

and yet one of the best strikers of this generation has publically and often praised Elmander for all the goals he has helped him get for Sweden over the last decade...

Elmander will also be playing in the French 1st division next season, a move which is friend and international team mate has helped him get...

yep.. must be sh*t....

http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city-fc/zlatan_ibrahimovic_hails_johan_elmander_s_norwich_city_switch_1_2369669

 

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[quote user="iron_stan"]it doesnt matter what way you look at, he got 4 assists + 1 goalhe was rubbbbbbbbbiiiiisssssshjust because he was marginally better the wolfswanker doesnt make him good

[/quote]

The argument wasnt ever ''is KK the best striker in the world'' though. It was ''would he have made a difference''. If he was better than any of the options we chose instead of him, then yes, quite possibly he might have made a difference. The facts are that if we had beaten West Brom in Hughtons final game instead of losing, we would have stayed up, the margins were that fine

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[quote user="jas the barclay king"]

[quote user="iron_stan"]''better than''[/quote]

 

and yet one of the best strikers of this generation has publically and often praised Elmander for all the goals he has helped him get for Sweden over the last decade...

Elmander will also be playing in the French 1st division next season, a move which is friend and international team mate has helped him get...

yep.. must be sh*t....

http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city-fc/zlatan_ibrahimovic_hails_johan_elmander_s_norwich_city_switch_1_2369669

 

[/quote]

lets see how many goals he scores

ligue 1 is a bit of a joke anyway

and its irrelevant - he was terrible for city, theres barely anyone in the squad that deserves to be defended for last seasons performances!!! let alone that twerp

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Elmander moved to Brondby in the end, not France.

He struggled at Norwich, but started to play better towards the end of the season. He was stuck out on the right wing for a lot of games which certainly didn''t help as Hughton seemed unsure where to use him.

He has never been prolific but then that isn''t the full story with him as he has generally set up more than he has scored. Despite many outsiders seeing his time at Bolton a failure he is still a fans favourite there.

He is certainly better than Kei who often struggled to control the easiest of passes.

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[quote user="Bethnal Yellow and Green"]Elmander moved to Brondby in the end, not France.

He struggled at Norwich, but started to play better towards the end of the season. He was stuck out on the right wing for a lot of games which certainly didn''t help as Hughton seemed unsure where to use him.

He has never been prolific but then that isn''t the full story with him as he has generally set up more than he has scored. Despite many outsiders seeing his time at Bolton a failure he is still a fans favourite there.

He is certainly better than Kei who often struggled to control the easiest of passes.[/quote]I thought he was excellent in his last few games.

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The trouble with some people is that they see someone with striker/forward next to their name and if they aren''t scoring a hatfull of goals then they are obviously rubbish. They neglect to see what else players like Elmander bring to the team. Elmander didn''t have a brilliant season but he wasn''t as bad as some would like make out. 

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