Quote Originally Posted by Young_Nudger View Post
Even though he runs like a rag doll from an Austrian puppet theatre - I really do like Cole.
Works his socks off and is decent in front of goal.

But £500k could buy a striker on a long term contract and that striker could be better than Cole.
For example Morris cost just £300k.

Plus of course - Fabio and Marsh are waiting in the wings to come on.
I am interested to know where these strikers are who you can buy for £500 k who can come in and instantly score at the same ratio as Cole has done this season , , he is in the top three strikers in the division which would suggest that his replacement has to come from a loan in a higher division because any striker with a better record than Coles can only be the two others in the same league & they are not coming to Oakwell for the same price or less , therefore you are expecting a loan player who has not been playing first team football to come in and score 12/13 goals in 22 games , its a big ask in fact it aint going to happen . I am all in favour of Jalo & Marsh getting opportunities but being as Jalo has not scored a league goal yet & Marsh has not even made the bench since the cock up in the cup then the chance of either of these two bridging the gap should Cole move on is somewhere between zero & zilch , if they both played together for every game until the end of season they wouldn"t get 10 between them, if they are serious about giving it a go then letting Cole go is barmy. I am of course forgetting about Shaw & Dallas who might fire in the goals , now there is a thought , what if the spreadsheet comes up with another out of their stable to replace Cole ?