Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[Bully2345]

Nah let's make sure nobody gets a rapturous welcome. Let's boo the claret and blue bastards.

His form doesn't merit that kind of reaction.

It's quite embarrassing actually. I don't know why a lot of our fans (not necessarily those on here) think Agbonlahor is gonna be our saviour.

My reaction was similar when Albrighton became "the saviour"

[RussellC]

Re Helenius: What' most bizarre about the whole thing is that we appear to just be giving up on him. Why aren't we looking to loan him out to a Championship Club for a few months and see if he cuts it there, before looking to offload completely?

[QBVILLA]

None of us know what he is like as a character or even how he performs/behaves in training. It may have something to do with his attitude rather than just his ability.

[Dave]

In which case, surely you would try to coach/manage him to sort out whatever attitude issue that it is rather than just binning him out?

[Ads]

Helenius struggled with the size of Birmingham for one and had a massive hissy fit for being done by Bowery for another.

Sent from [delete bellend iPhone tag] [insert bellend show off tag] the Altitude Bar at th Shangri La overlooking Sydney Opera House and Bridge while supping Rocks Pale Ale.

[RussellC]

Struggled with the size of Birmingham in what sense?! Was he trying to get round on a pogo stick or something?

[QBVILLA]

In which case, surely you would try to coach/manage him to sort out whatever attitude issue that it is rather than just binning him out?

If the level of ability meant you could turn a blind eye then I daresay the answer would be yes as with Mancini and Balotelli. Better players than Helenius have been bombed out by their clubs  for other reasons than ability. Adebayor for example or even Nasri at international level. I'm only speculating of course.

[Ads]

No idea. It's a big place I guess and for a young lad on his own I a foreign land, he may have felt swallowed up and lost.

[RussellC]

Regardless of the reasoning, be it attitude, struggling to adapt, whatever, it would surely still make much more sense to loan him out for a season than to sell him. He was clearly bought for his potential above anything else and he won't have lost that.

[supertom]

Didn't Lambert and also Helenius's agent publicly say that he was struggling to settle during last season? I think the first time it was mentioned was also pretty early in the season too. Then there was the suggestion around the mid section of the season that Helenius was going to leave in the summer. There were also rumours coming out of Denmark that he wanted a loan move for the second half of the season. Something is definitely not right.

[Concrete John]

Helenius will become the next Peter Crouch where we should have played him more and not sold him. We'll likely watch him score lots of goals for everyone else.

Exactly what I think.  Reckon he'll develop into a cracking player, but if it won't work out for him here for whatever reason, best to move him on.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

I find it hard to believe Helenius didn't settle in Birmingham. He already spoke English, had Okore over here too, and let's be honest, he didn't come from Angola or some other random country.

Or maybe he did. I don't know. It's just hard to imagine him struggling to settle here.

[UK Redsox]

All I can think of is attitude and/or off the field problems as he's looked good the few times I saw him (including pre-season). But in interviews I saw with him his attitude seemed spot on. It's a strange 'un.

Helenius showed more glimpses of skill in the little time he was on the pitch than the other strikers did all season.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Did he ?

I must've missed those moments. I never saw him look like he had anything about him at all. Pretty much like the rest of our strikers (minus Benteke) granted

[mr underhill]

looked like he had plenty about him when his sorts came off