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Many fans seem to want a "fox in the box" goal scorer. Defoe is certainly that. He played for Bournemouth in the Cara Cup on Tuesday and was taken off after 70 minutes. I can't see he has much of a future there and doesn't look likely to feature in many Premiership games this season. Maybe, just maybe, he would fancy a blast at Rotherham. He's always seemed an intelligent, decent sort of guy and might pass the Warne "good guy" test. Perhaps trying to get him on loan in January might come off. Money comes into this but let's say 16 weeks at £65,000 per week (according to Daily Mail) = £1,000,000 ish. Bournemouth would surely chip in a decent percentage of this as he is getting his wages for doing next to nothing at the moment so it might be a total of about £600,000 for RUFC to pay out. Obviously this would smash the wage structure here but for 16 weeks I think the other players would accept it if it meant we didn't get relegated.
Bournemouth reduce their wage bill.
Rotherham get a proven goal scorer.
Rotherham don't get relegated (though of course they still might) - which would make Defoe's wages an absolute bargain.
Bigger crowds turn up at NYS when they see that Tony Stewart is showing some ambition.
I've got a bad dose of flu at the moment with a sky high temperature and am being fed all sorts tablets and potion. So perhaps I am just hallucinating but it made some sort of sense when I typed this.