Unfortunately Gayle has become the sacrificial lamb for the purchase of Wickham. Because of our spending we have to recoup some money and Dwight is the only fringe player that will bring in some serious wonga. I know a lot of people won't agree but i would sell Bolasie for 15m and keep Gayle. With all this transfer tittle tattle we don't know what state Yannicks head is in. When he was away in January Gayle was given his chance and was superb, we didn't miss him at all. We have plenty of cover on that left side with Lee, Sako and Gayle himself. I love Yannick but if he and Gayle both played the same amount of games we all know who would score most goals and it wouldn't be Yannick.

All four managers have also said that Gayle is the best finisher at the club. I suppose that in the modern game if you score 20 goals but can't head away opponents corners then you're not much use.

He was not superb in January , he was very ordinary on the wing , and despite grabbing a couple of goals , yannick offers far more on the wing , I like Gayle and if played in a 442 with a Murray type forward doing the donkey work , he would score s*** loads , unfortunately for Dwight he was born in the wrong era , as he isn't capable of playing on his own and leading the line, all of our previous managers think the same , and quite clearly many others do to , hence why the only club to have put in an official bid is newly promoted Bristol city , whose tops corer last season was our none scoring centre forward Aaron wilbraham , who coincidently would be a perfect partner for Gayle.

He hasn't. It's a generalisation of what a modern striker is. Managers would rather them chip in with a few and have other attributes rather than be a 20 goal striker and nothing else. I would like to see how Jimmy Greaves would have fared today, all he could do was put the ball in the net 400 times, he couldn't tackle a rice pudding.

This. Wake up and smell the pie, people.

I saw it too.

Words to the effect of...

"...Yes, I do think he is good enough to play in the Premier League... but unfortunately due to the strength of our squad now...the lad came to me at the beginning of season and said he wanted to move on, we have found him a club and the ball is now in his court..."