[michaelwh]

PO wants to go or rather his agent wants him to go,same thing though to the club.PO is nothing but a disruption every transfer window.Add this to fact that he only played 25 prem games last season with a return of 10 goals(a good strike rate it has to be said)However take out the goals against the wolves and 6 goals in a season isnt very good.Also at the age of 31 he aint getting no younger for a striker.Also last season he had a questionable injury which suddenly cleared up after RH questioned it in the press. SELL SELL SELL

[sconesy]

PO wants to go or rather his agent wants him to go,same thing though to the club.PO is nothing but a disruption every transfer window.Add this to fact that he only played 25 prem games last season with a return of 10 goals(a good strike rate it has to be said)However take out the goals against the wolves and 6 goals in a season isnt very good.Also at the age of 31 he aint getting no younger for a striker.Also last season he had a questionable injury which suddenly cleared up after RH questioned it in the press. SELL SELL SELL

Can't say I agree mate. In Odemwingie we have a potential match winner everytime he steps on the pitch. "Take out the hatrick at Wolves" ! Why? This was a great achievement and I'm sure it will be many years before and Albion player matches it. Of the other 6 goals - Blackburn, Liverpool, QPR away? 7 points but to name a few. Also his performance against Newcastle away in which he scored - then set up the winning goal!
He cost us around 2 mil.....................why should we sell a player of his caliber - even at the age of 31! We may be offered around 4-5 mil if we're lucky - then we only have Long and need to find areplacement at fairly short notice. Will his replacement gel to in team, and is Long ready to shoulder the responsibility.?
Dangerous game in my opinion and one which could well back fire. My guess is he will still be worth 2 mil at the end of the season - then is the time to consider!

[michaelwh]

There is no doubt to POs  talent.on his day a proven match winner,however I can envisage those days becoming fewer and fewer.Last season it took all the guile,cunning and experience of Roy Hodgson to get PO to start performing.Is Steve clark able to do that or even willing to play the mind games needed to stroke POs ego long enough to get him fully motivated.The longer the club put up with the antics of PO and his agent the worse things will become.Also what effect does the increasing melodrama that is Peter Odemwingie have on the rest of the squad.

[sconesy]

There is no doubt to POs  talent.on his day a proven match winner,however I can envisage those days becoming fewer and fewer.Last season it took all the guile,cunning and experience of Roy Hodgson to get PO to start performing.Is Steve clark able to do that or even willing to play the mind games needed to stroke POs ego long enough to get him fully motivated.The longer the club put up with the antics of PO and his agent the worse things will become.Also what effect does the increasing melodrama that is Peter Odemwingie have on the rest of the squad.

I understand your point. However, only Steve Clark can prove weather or not he can get the best out of Pete - only he can be the judge of that and deserves the opportunity to do so - I will back him whatever he decides. I can only state the facts.......does he cause a problem in the dressing room? Who knows. Was it evident last season? if so, I'll take another season please! This may well be his last season - and if SC needs to stroke is ego, or anything else in that matter! - if he does manage to get another 10-12 goals out of him this season, and other players chip in, we could well be looking at another solid season!!

[VANDERLEI]

We have to keep Pete at all costs. He is the best striker we have had in modern times.

[reynolc2]

latest speculation related to Pete.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11698/7905852/Al-Gharrafa-bid-for-Odemwingie

[tuamigos]

latest speculation related to Pete.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11698/7905852/Al-Gharrafa-bid-for-Odemwingie

I stopped reading after Sky Sports understands 

[lordbaggie]

latest speculation related to Pete.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11698/7905852/Al-Gharrafa-bid-for-Odemwingie

This is yesterday's news.

The bid has already been rejected.

Keep up!!

[jsam]

I must admit I'm in two minds about Odemwingie. He's lazy, selfish, needs to learn the offside rule, and over a season probably wastes more chances than he converts.

If there was someone in the wings to replace him, I'd say let him go and cash in. But we do need someone lined up.

Could that be Shane Long? He scored eight in 24 last season, quite a few coming off the bench, whereas Peter managed ten in 25 - not too different. Is ten goals a good enough return when you think Danny Graham at Swansea managed 12 and Grant Holt at Norwich managed 15? Can Clark put instill some belief in Long?

For a club with ambition, I think on balance ten is not enough for your first choice striker. So with due thanks for a hat trick against Wolves, overall, I'd say tarra a bit, Pete.

[Mister AT]

Pete is the best striker we have had at this club in a long while, he has that air of unpredictability about him which none of our other strikers offer, and most of all he scares defenders.

Premier league defenders are scared of strikers who can run with the ball at pace and thats what PO does.

We'd be silly to sell him in my opinion.

[Hunnington Baggie]

I must admit I'm in two minds about Odemwingie. He's lazy, selfish, needs to learn the offside rule, and over a season probably wastes more chances than he converts.

If there was someone in the wings to replace him, I'd say let him go and cash in. But we do need someone lined up.

Could that be Shane Long? He scored eight in 24 last season, quite a few coming off the bench, whereas Peter managed ten in 25 - not too different. Is ten goals a good enough return when you think Danny Graham at Swansea managed 12 and Grant Holt at Norwich managed 15? Can Clark put instill some belief in Long?

For a club with ambition, I think on balance ten is not enough for your first choice striker. So with due thanks for a hat trick against Wolves, overall, I'd say tarra a bit, Pete.

Pete managed 15 in his first season.... same rules as these two. but that was cancelled by how many we conceded.if you don't concede you only need one goal to win. (hodgson's theory)

[Dan]

Never understood this nonsense about being lazy (although considering people used to say it about Brunt, it seems people just prefer headless less talented chickens) he does a lot of running for the team, he's just intelligent about it so doesn't doggedly chase after the ball constantly just to appease the fans.

[Signor_Maresca]

Agreed, people who say he is lazy and doesn't work simply don't understand football whatsoever.

[sturb74]

Yeah lets get rid of Pete!! as I understand it (just like Sky Sports) He causes trouble every pre season and wants to leave, our top scorer 2 seasons on the trot whislt carrying numerous injuries (according to his last manager) so lets have a look at replacing him with another forward who has scored as many goals as he has in 2 season in the top flight.

Last Season
van Persie  30,  Rooney  27, Agüero   23, Adebayor   17,  Yakubu   17,  Dempsey 17, Ba 16, Holt 15,
 Džeko 14, Balotelli   13, Cissé   13,  Fletcher  12,  Graham   12,      Suárez, Luis  11, Defoe  11,
van der Vaart 11, Sturridge  11, Lampard   11,     Hernández,  10   Odemwingie   10

2010/11
Tevez  21/Berbatov  21/van Persie Arsenal  18/ Bent 17/Odemwingie   15/Carroll, 13/Campbell, DJ   13/
Hernández,  13/ Malouda 13/van der Vaart  13/ Kuyt  13/Drogba 12/Nolan United  12/Adam'  12/ 
Dempsey   12/ Rooney   11/Gyan  10/Lampard 10/Nasri   10/Pavlyuchenko Hotspur  10


So from that list if we take out players we have no chance of signing and the midfielders we are left with a small list of about 3 imo

Fletcher, (dingles are said to be quoting £12m) Never going to be sold to us (I wouldn't mind him though)
DJ Campbell, not good enough IMO and deffinatley no better than Pete
Holt, just signed new contract at Norwich, I don't really think he is all that, just another Marcus Stewart.
Graham, see Holt

So lets go and buy another unproven strike in the prem  cross our fingers close our eyes and hope for the best  because as you can see from the 2 list above Pete is in some shoddy compnay and should be sold

[TheJacko2000]

I must admit I'm in two minds about Odemwingie. He's lazy, selfish, needs to learn the offside rule, and over a season probably wastes more chances than he converts.

If there was someone in the wings to replace him, I'd say let him go and cash in. But we do need someone lined up.

Could that be Shane Long? He scored eight in 24 last season, quite a few coming off the bench, whereas Peter managed ten in 25 - not too different. Is ten goals a good enough return when you think Danny Graham at Swansea managed 12 and Grant Holt at Norwich managed 15? Can Clark put instill some belief in Long?

For a club with ambition, I think on balance ten is not enough for your first choice striker. So with due thanks for a hat trick against Wolves, overall, I'd say tarra a bit, Pete.

Yes a first choice Striker who was forced out to the right wing and still made double figures.

[jsam]

Yes a first choice Striker who was forced out to the right wing and still made double figures.

Let me repeat: For a club with ambition is ten goals enough? I'm not looking for a fight here, just questioning whether he's good enough if we want to move forward. Dempsey got 17 for Fulham - shouldn't we be tryoing to match that, at very least?

[NathWBA]

Yes a first choice Striker who was forced out to the right wing and still made double figures.

5 of those goals came in 2 games, so in-between what was he offering us

[LiamTheBaggie]

If we're to progress as a club then we need players like Peter Odemwingie on board. Regardless of his age, Pete oozes quality with the ball and although he may be selfish, he's a striker, and naturally, strikers are selfish and greedy. Pete for two seasons running has broke the 10 goal barrier and you would have to question where we would be if we didn't have him. Granted, his effort and application appeared questionable at times last season and he may have not hit the heights  he set himself the season before hand but how many did reach the standards they set themselves? Odemwingie was another shackled by Roy's demands and at times that showed, but he still had the quality to get us ten goals.

[baggie82]

Isn't this a really simple situation, i.e. Pete is not for sale; full stop?

[B_H_Baggie]

Every player is for sale for the right price. We don't want to let our best players go by any means but if the price is right and should they actually want to leave the club then there is a good chance they will go, its just the way football is these days.

We need to build as a club and that means improving on what we already have not by weakening the side.

[Signor_Maresca]

5 of those goals came in 2 games, so in-between what was he offering us

I'll give Messi a call, tell him those games in which he scored braces and hatricks don't count, goal tally can only be substantiated when you score a single goal in any single game.  Never realised it worked like that - but thanks for clearing it up.

[Webby]

5 of those goals came in 2 games, so in-between what was he offering us

Funky hair styles

[mulliganstired]

He's not going to get any younger, so if we get offered silly money and he'd rather go and ponce around there instead of playing in a proper league, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

[The Joust]

5 of those goals came in 2 games, so in-between what was he offering us

That's a ridiculous thing to say

[graka]

if this cash rich club are really interested then quote them a figure end of. 10 million take it or leave it!!