The Potters have apparently had a bid of 1 million rejected for acting Watford captain (in the absence of Jay Demerit) Tommy Smith. The bid reportedly falls some way short of the 3 million value the Hertfordshire club place on the 28 year old striker. Smith, who can also play as an attacking midfielder is currently in his second spell with Watford, where he started Gregor Blanco Jersey his career and found himself again two years ago, via reasonably succe sful spells at Sunderland and Derby Couty. In total he has scored 52 goals in 265 appearances for the Hornets, and has averaged around ten goals a season for the majority of his career. Stokes Premier League rivals Blackburn are also said to be in the hunt for Smith, with the hierarchy at the Lancashire club seemingly Robinson Cano Jersey prepared to pay 2 million to secure the players services. It is clear that we need top bring in at least one more striker in the January transfer window but if Smith really is a serious target I must say I am surprised. He does not suit our typical forward player at all, he is well under six feet tall and weighs just ten stone so would not be best suited to playing either the Mamady Sidibe target Jed Lowrie Jersey man or the Ricardo Fuller tank role if called upon to play for us. His goalscoring record of one in five on average is hardly eye-catching either. He is a decent Championship player but aged 28, Devin Mesoraco Jersey in the so-called prime of his career he seems to have found his level, and in my opinion it would be foolish of Stoke to spend any great deal of money on him while there seems to bebetter players, who would improve our survival chances far more than Smith would available for similar amounts of money. (The 3 million not the 1 million)Smith not the first player that springs to mind when one thinks of a Tony Pulis forward line Meanwhile, Stokes prospective mood for Celtics Scottish international defenderGary Caldwell seems to be dead in the water before it had ever really gotgoing, Caldwell saying that he is happy at Celtic and has no wish to move away New York Mets T-Shirts from the club.