[Slick_Footwork]

The more I think of the Rodriguez link, the more I hope it's a smokescreen.

Yes, he was good in 2013-2014 when he played next a certain Ricky Lambert, remember him? But since then he's had 2 serious injuries and barely played. He's got 5 league goals in the 3 years subsequent to that year.

I watched the Saints a lot last year (Yes, I'm one of those saddos that watches the Europa league) and he looked like a crock to me. Seemed to have either lost a few yards of pace or was scared to break into stride because of injury. Either way, he didn't look the same player.

£12m touted for a player with an average of 4 league starts per season in the past 3 years is insane. Firstly, how do we know he's even good enough when he's played so little football? Secondly, this is a lad with the track record of serious injuries and relapses. With our paper thin squad, we need players who are going to be out there on the field.

I don't doubt he's a talented player but this move has risk written all over it.

We're saying that his goals to minutes ratio is better than our 2 strikers last season as some sort of justification for a £12 fee. But is it not worrying that we're looking at stats of a player who has started 12 league games in 3 years.

He simply hasn't played enough games in the last 3 years for his stats to merit anything at all.

I'd expect anyone we're looking at to have better goalscoring stats than ours last season anyway...

Yes, Rodriguez might come in, never have another injury, recover his pace and become a revelation. I'd certainly be hoping for that if we do sign him, but I wouldn't be holding my breath. Very rarely does a player with such a track record of injury suddenly become injury free.