So Armstrong is £7m+ we are told.
A 26 yr old who started just 12 games for them last year with 3 goals and 5 assists and with just one year left on his contract.
Windass is £1.5m.
A 24 yr old who started 31 games for us last year with 13 goals and 6 assists and has still got three years left on his contract.
This is one area our club needs to address quite quickly , spin and perception.
Despite what some fans say, Windass had a cracking season last year. £1.5m is laughable.
I am the only person who quoted 8m and think he is worth more if you compare him to players in England. Windass gets far too much stick up here and I wouldn't blame if he wanted out. The kid scored and assisted a shite load last season and was our best player but still took unbelievable abuse.Let’s be honest, if you read some of the shit people say about him you’d think we would happily give him away.
Probably the same people demanding £8m just now.
Are you saying he's not good enough?Wonder why they want relegated again
Josh is a very good player when he’s interested and I think that’s what frustrates many Bears, myself included. There’s been many times he’s a missing jersey.I am the only person who quoted 8m and think he is worth more if you compare him to players in England. Windass gets far too much stick up here and I wouldn't blame if he wanted out. The kid scored and assisted a shite load last season and was our best player but still took unbelievable abuse.
We have no idea what shape Gerrard will be be playing nor what problems Windass will cause in there, so not sure how you come to that conclusion.
Pluses are his pace along with numerous assists and goals last season obviously. Given those proven attributes, the main problem I see is how high the fee will be from an epl team just now for such a lengthy contracted player. We need to stop under selling our assets.
This all day long. Windass is a good player and fantastic on his day. He's our 2nd top goalscorer from a number 10 position, he's got 3 years on his contract and hes 24. Remember Ipswich pissing themselves at the steals they got from us last year? As others have said, we say he's not for sale and if Cardiff are interested they will cime back in with a decent offer. Even then, if Gerrard says he wants to keep him, he is not for sale.Joke of an offer. He scored more goals than Demsmelly and GriffHIV last season.
If James Maddisonis worth up to £22m then Windass is surely worth a lot more than £1.5m FFS
Minimum of £5m but look at Armstrong
If he’s gone for £7m in final year then Cardiff should be told to forget it at that level
Windass is yet to convince me but surely they are having a giraffe.They are trolling us ffs
Windass is a £5million player.
One of the most infuriating things is watch our own continually undervalue our players.
Don’t beleive the Scottish press.
I agree with two thirds of what you said in the opening paragraph - played as an AM or a winger, in the systems we had last year did cause problems with shape, and he does have attributes and potential. I think if we play him as an out and out striker (like we did v Aberdeen when we played the diamond) and he will be a fantastic player for us.
As for not doing it when it counts (aka the third I disagree with):
Dundee (H) - 2nd Goal
Dundee (A) - Equaliser
Aberdeen (A) - 2nd Goal
Hibs (A) - Equaliser
Fraserburgh - Hat trick in cup
Partick (A) - 1st Goal
Hamilton (A) - Hat trick
Bheasts (H) - Opening goal
Hibs (A) - 5th goal
I've purposely excluded games where he has scored while we're well ahead as well as his double v Ayr. Even discount the 2 hat tricks, that's a fair few important goals - equalisers, 2nd goals, 1st goal.
Then there's assists - out of his 8, 3 of them were to put us in the lead. The other 5 were when we were already ahead.
(quiet nightshift leads me to trawling through match reports etc, which for last season was quite painful)
So at a time when the tramps have just sold Armstrong for circa £7m, you’d be happy selling our top goal scorer for £1.5m? This is a Cardiff team that’s just netted over £100m after being promoted and you’d sell for peanuts? Is that you Martin Bain?I’d honestly take the money and run.
Armstrong passed the ball straight to an England player leading directly to their equaliser at Hampden. He was in the last year of his deal. There is zero chance they got £7m for himArmstrong is a decent player, has produced and will go for the £6/7m quoted. Scottish international and lots of European experience.
Windass is regularly slaughtered on here and we think he's a dud, but people want £8m ? Scottish Daily Mail claiming we value him at £3m, with Burnley also interested. Get £4m and it's a brilliant piece of business. You'd get 2 better players from abroad for that.
100% with you there mate!This all day long. Windass is a good player and fantastic on his day. He's our 2nd top goalscorer from a number 10 position, he's got 3 years on his contract and hes 24. Remember Ipswich pissing themselves at the steals they got from us last year? As others have said, we say he's not for sale and if Cardiff are interested they will cime back in with a decent offer. Even then, if Gerrard says he wants to keep him, he is not for sale.
All that and Armstrong had only 1 year left on his contract.
Utter pish, the lot of it.
Gerrard has already told Windass that he's got a huge part to play this season and is looking for 30 goals from him playing further forward.