Kelman

[Martinmalta]

Players we have out on loan doing well and tearing it up?
I don't quite understand this. What do other teams do in this situation? loan them out again? sell them? cancel their contract?

Call them back!

[LordLoftus]

Players we have out on loan doing well and tearing it up?
I don't quite understand this. What do other teams do in this situation? loan them out again? sell them? cancel their contract?

[Martinmalta]

Kelman is favourite for the DIV 1 golden booth, ahead of Stansfield and Kone. And Murphy Cooper is near to winning the golden gloves for DIV 1 with 16 clean sheets so far. Just saying.

[222lepo]

Kelman is 169 cm Marti likes to play a lone target man either he changes the system and play 2 strikers. Kelman as a lone striker in the championship would be a disaster, it would be interesting to see him play along Frey.

[SheepRanger]

Worth a try , if it don't work out I'm sure the orient or someone else will buy him , on the score sheet again today

Wrexham have slipped out of the top 2 and if they don't go up I'm sure the Americans boys would love a fellow American in the squad, if for nothing more than US telly viewers. They'd do a couple of million on him for sure.

[LoftusRoadLad]

It's not as if Orient are running away at the top. Scoring over 20 in a season is no mean feat.

[72bus]

Worth a try , if it don't work out I'm sure the orient or someone else will buy him , on the score sheet again today

[Abseits]

Can't say I've seen much of his Os stuff but I did see one game where he clinically passed a ball into the net from 20yds. I remember thinking that's the type of ball that Chair, Smyth, Lloyd etc wildly slash a yard over and wide...

Let's face it, Charlie Austen was a peripheral figure for vast chunks of most games but he'd invariably pop up with a poachers's finish. If Kelman knows where the net is and has a knack/instinct for finishing we need to be forebearing about any weaknesses he might have, like say pace or close control or whatever.

I'm sure if he wasn't our player and we signed him over the summer I feel sure the majority of us would think it was a decent acquistion. I dont really see why it should be viewed differently cos he's returning from being farmed out on loan?

[SheepRanger]

We're hardly overflowing with goals scoring options so bring him back so Marti can assess if he's good enough. He's a more mature player now from the one we saw, so we can't look back to previous performances in our shirt.

If he's not good enough then one of the relegated teams, or top L1 sides, will have to stump up some cash to buy him from us.

[WeAreQPR12]

Totally different regarding Sir Les he came back as a specimen. Worked on the weights and was a proper athlete I don't think Kelman could be more of an opposite comparison

[Sleeping Giants]

I remember Les Ferdinand came good after a year loan with a Turkish club. Before that, he couldn't settle. He will be good for us ... Kelman that is!

He (Ferdinand) went to Besiktas, I remember when he came back and I first saw his name come up as goalscorer on teletext and wondering who the hell he was.

[Martinmalta]

I remember Les Ferdinand came good after a year loan with a Turkish club. Before that, he couldn't settle. He will be good for us ... Kelman that is!

[Isleworth116]

I'd release him this Summer. Purple patch last few weeks. 8 goals in 7 matches. Before that, 12 in 35 matches.

2 goals against Crawley and Mansfield. Two of weakest teams in League.

Not good enough, had chance with us, didn't take it.

[Abseits]

We've got nothing to lose..

Marti will have Summer to assess him and 6ish games of next season to potentially play him before transfer window shuts in September. Plenty of time to decide if he's "Snog, Marry or Avoid" kinda thing...

One very positive thing he's shown irrespective of quality of L1 is his robustness and durability. Given Celar, Frey, Lloyd and Kolli spend most of their time in the sick room, the simple fact Kelman appears physically capable of lasting the pace of a 46-game season AND playing 90mins without needing 2 weeks in an oxygen tent afterwards must be of interest to us.

[Dono77]

Have to disagree with you all. Got a feeling most of you, same posters were saying Lumley was going to be a superb goalkeeper well look how that ended, he was a disaster. I don't care how many goals he's scoring in a #### poor division, many average strikers have done well in league 1. I've seen enough to know he's found his level. His movement is bloody awful and hopefully his goals warrants us to maybe get a million quid out of it if we're lucky.

Whilst I agree he hasn't done anything of note for us in his time here, he's only 23 years old. He came to us from Southend as a spotty teenager for 250k.

He was played out of position or up top on his own which doesn't suit him. He's a box player. He can finish. It would be very short sighted of our club to decide he's not good enough when you see the likes of celar, Lloyd and frey being our senior strikers..Kelman is in better form than anything our lot can show in terms of being fit and scoring goals.

Give him a shot in pre season but he has to play alongside someone. If sheff utd go up i would go for keiffer Moore on a season long loan and start him and kelman. Get rid of celar. Loan out Lloyd. Frey off the bench. Sell kolli if someone offers 5m plus. Keep CK is the manager wants to play 2 strikers. If not then sell CK this summer. Win win either way.