Fantastic track record of scoring goals,a rarity for any of our forwards in recent times.

Worth signing in the summer if Sunderland go down to instantly solve our goal famine ?

Big wages and 33!!

We do need a goalscorer but no point as he's probably got 1 more season in the Prem.

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I am a great admirer and wished we signed him in January
but unless we get a decent midfield sorted not even he, for all his speed and awareness, is going to get much change from lofted hoof balls.

This is the reason Gayle, despite his speed and skill, 'doesn't fit in'

Decent midfield? What, we ain't got one?

Jedi
Cabaye MacArthur
Zaha Bolasie

Yet if the media are to be believed some much larger clubs than us are willing to spend a lot of money to sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic and he is a year older than Defoe.

There is a saying that if you are good enough then you are old enough but the reverse is also true that if you are good enough you are young enough and after all weren't Kevin Phillips and Ryan Giggs playing until they were 40?

Edited by Midlands Eagle (02 May 2016 7.42am)

He signed a 3 yr deal with sunderland for 80K a week. He's 33, so he'd be 35 when we could potentially get him on a 'free'.