Are you against the potential signing of Gameiro?

Of course it's all rumour and hearsay at the moment, but apparently NUFC have had a bid accepted for Lorient striker, Kevin Gameiro.

Old news isn't it? Well it's a good job I don't really want to focus on the merits of the bid although naturally I'll have to touch on it a bit. Instead I want to focus on the attitude that some of our fans, rightly or wrongly, have towards the possible arrival of the 24-year-old French international.

I've read opinions from a fair number of fans now and I'm alarmed at some of the responses that this rumoured deal has solicited. Granted Gameiro has been making overtures to the likes of Valencia and Paris St Germain and would seemingly prefer a move to either of those clubs over us, but it shouldn't mean that we should discount him completely.

Now I'm perfectly aware just why some Newcastle fans would be willing to pass up on the chance of bringing him to Newcastle. After all, we've had a fair few bad experiences concerning players who didn't really want to be here (ahem Michael Owen), but it doesn't mean that they are all like that. There is nothing to say that he won't try his best whilst he is here.

We need a goalscorer, in fact I think we need more than one goalscorer, and Gameiro - whilst untested in the Premier League - scores goals, a fair few of them in fact, for a struggling team in the shape of Lorient. Why pass it up just because he may have designs on playing his football somewhere else? When I was a kid I had designs on being a racing car driver, but instead I've had to settle for driving something a little less nippy ;)

Gameiro, or any signing that has their eyes set on bigger things, would do exactly the same in my opinion - settle.

At the end of the day, the very French sounding Kevin has a choice - he can sign with us or he can stay at Lorient. No other team has matched what we have offered yet, and with his preferred destination of Valencia stuck for cash it's unlikely that they will be able to match and PSG may well have their eyes set on bigger fish with all that new found Qatari wealth at their disposal.

In short it's kind of irrelevant. Gameiro, or anyone, must want to come here in the first place if they agree a deal surely? That is the nuts of it from where I'm standing. Nobody would force him to move anywhere he didn't really want to so if he was to sign then surely he would be fine with being here. Just because he isn't jumping through hoops it doesn't mean that he, or anyone, wouldn't settle and do the job here.

Of course all of this speculation is mind-numbing, and there is nothing to suggest that anyone is actually going to sign on yet. They will do though, in time, but just because they may have originally had their eyes set on bigger things it doesn't mean that they automatically won't perform for us.

Personally I think Gameiro, as an example, would come here and get his head down. He is a goalscorer and if he starts scoring he'll soon learn to love life at Newcastle. He wouldn't be the first Frenchman to become smitten with Tyneside after experiencing it at first hand would he?

So am I against signing players who may have their eyes on bigger clubs? Nope, not really. The question is; are you?