Scott Sinclair - now gone

[Mellin]

Was desperate to get rid of him and glad he's gone. Time waster who belongs in Scotland.

[Dave Cooper please]

Sinclair has scored the same number of goals in that league this season as Louis Moult of Motherwell and one less than Liam Boyce of Ross County - and I have no idea who either of them are!

I think I'll stick with our current striking options than worry about what Scott Sinclair might have done for us this season...

Bloody hell, Louis Moult? Last saw him trundling around non-league pitches for Nuneaton.

[Villafirst]

Last post on this thread was Sept 2016. Have to say Scott has been in blistering form for Celtic. I think he'd have done well in the Championship. Scoring for fun up there. There's even whispers of an England call-up. Once again a player moved on too early. Symptomatic of the previous regime ruining a decent player. Albrighton, Veretout, Sinclair, Bannan all thriving elsewhere.

[LeeB]

Sinclair is shit. The league he plays in is even shitter.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Beat me to it, Lee. It tells you all you need to know about the quality of the Scottish Premier that Scott Sinclair looks decent in it. A shite, half-arsed waste of space. 

[Risso]

If Scott Sinclair plays for England I'll start to consider that my dream of pulling on the white shirt is still alive.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Too right. Come to think of it I'm starting to wonder if I could get a game for Celtic.

[cdbearsfan]

The league is, undoubtedly, inferior, even compared our division let alone the English top flight.

However, I think if he'd been as good for us as he was for Celtic he could have been a big asset.

He rarely was anywhere near that good for us, though, and hadn't been that good since he left Swansea... the last time he played under Rodgers.

We got good money for him, and he seems to have had a new lease of life up there. Win-win for both parties and time to move on.

[Villafirst]

Rodgers got the best out of him at Swansea and is doing the same at Celtic. I'd rather have Sinclair playing than the likes of Gardner; he was an embarrassment when he came on against Norwich.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Yet Gardner would look like Zidane if he played for Celtic.

[LeeB]

Rodgers got the best out of him at Swansea and is doing the same at Celtic. I'd rather have Sinclair playing than the likes of Gardner; he was an embarrassment when he came on against Norwich.

Real like-for-like comparison there.

[eamonn]

Nowt against Sinclair thriving, he needed to get the love back in his tummy for footy. I hope he treated Helen and the babby to a nice dinner in one of Sauciehall's finest diners. Meanwhile amongst our other recently-departed attacking alumni poor Rudy missed a last-gasp sitter to win a relly-six-pointer while our Jordan on the other team didn't seem to have progressed since his last moody performance for us. And Ross was resting his fat stores in his gated premises.

[paul_e]

The ting with Sinclair is that he's a decent finisher so if you can find a way to get the ball to him in the box he'll get a decent number of goals, even for us his record was reasonable (1 in 5) for someone who was down as a winger.  The problems are that he can't really beat a man, he can't cross, he doesn't time his runs particularly well and he's neither particularly strong or particularly fast meaning he has literally nothing to explain how he has over 100 premier league appearances to his name.  Take him to a lower standard (or against poorer sides in cups) and his finishing ability in the box comes to the fore and he scores for fun (6 of the 9 he scored for us were lower league team cup ties).  Yes he's doing well for Celtic and he probably would've been ok for us this year but he's still a very limited player.

[olaftab]

Yet Gardner would look like Zidane if he played for Celtic.

It's a terrible League. Scottish Football Governance need to do something about restoring some competition.

[Sexual Ealing]

Rodgers got the best out of him at Swansea and is doing the same at Celtic. I'd rather have Sinclair playing than the likes of Gardner; he was an embarrassment when he came on against Norwich.

I'd take them both.