I think this is extremely disingenuous. First of all, your stats are wrong. Campbell has played 127 Premiership games and scored 17 goals. Gayle has played 48 Premiership games and scored 12 goals. As we're talking about Premiership performance here, let's ignore hat-tricks against Walsall in the League Cup, eh?

However, the point of this is not to re-hash my views on Gayle but, rather, to question why Campbell has become everyone's favourite whipping boy at Palace?

Bottom line: Campbell is not the Premiership centre forward you'd choose to spearhead your attack but he is a solid performer who has had success at far higher levels than Gayle in his career. Due to injury, we have seen nowhere near the best of him at Palace but he's a decent footballer (not just goalscorer) and as a "fourth" forward in a squad, there are many worse. Given a prolonged, injury-free run he has at least something to contribute.

If we had a forward line-up of Remy, Ndoye, Murray and depending where you position them, Chamakh and Puncheon, Campbell is far from the worst player we could have in reserve. As for N'Doye, he would be a MASSIVE upgrade on Gayle. Different class altogether.

Edited by sydtheeagle (30 Jun 2015 11.41am)

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Swansea are poised to announce the £5million capture of Portugal striker Eder and are also closing in on Dame N'Doye from Hull. The likely double swoop will give Swansea boss Garry Monk a powerful new attacking line-up.

Striker N'Doye, 30, wants to quit the relegated Tigers and the Welsh club are in advanced talks over his £50,000-a-week personal demands.

According to the mirror

I think Gayle would score more that 5 goals too. But Campbell is a much better footballer and others would score more goals as a result of his presence on the pitch. But anyway, the point was not Campbell vs. Gayle. I do think if we had four quality strikers, Campbell would be perfectly serviceable as a low-rent, last-man-in squad player. He is not the worst striker in the Premiership, when fully fit, by any means. But in terms of really scoring goals, both Gayle and Campbell are Championship quality.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

We are now apparently favourites again to sign him!!! What is going on!!!! Bloody social media!!!!

apparently he demanded big wages a couple of weeks ago.

whose to say we purposely linked ourselves moreso with remy again to bring ndoye back down to earth?

and today he'll accept 40k rather than the 60k he initially demanded.

5 million for him is way to much he is 30 years old ........................

Edited by redandblue4life (15 Jul 2015 10.26pm)