Alfa
Striker
The recruitment team have been absolutely first class.
I’m not sure if this is a sarcastic remark or not ?
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The recruitment team have been absolutely first class.
There is no way they were ever going to gamble a few million to win 150 million, not a chance in hell. I actually think that’s the right decision but it shouldn’t have stopped us signing a striker, money that went elsewhere should have been put towards a striker as the obvious priority.You say that but when I was posting this in January. People on here were saying Speakman knows what he is doing we wont be taken for a ride.
Well guess what jusr because we wouldnt spend a few milliion we are not going to have a chance to get 150 million
It's a big world, with a lot of professional footballers. A club of our standing should be able to find a striker.Who was available?
Fully agree. We are recruiting for championship level. Its not like we're so elite that a tiny pool of players would improve us.It's a big world, with a lot of professional footballers. A club of our standing should be able to find a striker.
It's not baffling at all though is it?Baffling how many were defending the decision not to bring someone in, was obvious we'd struggle without a proper #9
He had one great 1/2 season. Remember watching the Chelsea away victory in Fitzgeralds, good memoriesThings have go so bad, I'm actually starting to come round to the idea and I thought he was awful when he was here.
We identified 5 who we thought would improve us and managed to do a deal for none of them.It's not baffling at all though is it?
Literally everyone would have taken a striker.
The issue is whenever this boring debate comes up, people just assume that we'll be signing someone class, and it wouldn't be the second coming of Will Grigg.
If you trust your process, and all signs point to the fact that we should, then you don't deviate from it or panic buy someone we don't think will contribute.
It's an utterly pointless debate because any time we win it doesn't get mentioned, and the only way for someone not to turn around and go "we should have just signed a striker man fuck sake any striker", would be if we made the playoffs. But even then you'd still probably get some people whinging that we would have been in the automatics if we signed a striker.
The debate completely ignores any semblance of nuance because it never factors in that the striker we signed could have been shite, might not have fit in to the system, our league form tanks anyway trying to incorporate him and we're also lumped with his wages for 3 years, which impacts on next season's budgets and so on.
Exactly. We aren't, rightfully so in my opinion, breaking the structure to gamble on new signings. Especially in January when fees are inflated anyway.We identified 5 who we thought would improve us and managed to do a deal for none of them.
And managers and coaches always get it right ? We've tried pushing up defenders and giving Ekwah a more forward role and it's clear however hard Gelhardt works he's a No 10 not a CF. We can rinse and repeat or try something different surely.
We (the fans) don’t know who was available but there must have been a number of players across the European leagues who we could have brought in. If the club had done that & we still found ourselves in this position then fair does, at least we gave it a go.Not sure why 2 years comes into it. We went up.
We need a striker now. A one who we didn't sign two years ago might not have been suitable for top end champo.
January of this year was the only time we've been mega desperate, and there's been no suitable suggestions put forward.
I am watching a really talented team struggling to break down an organised defence because we did not sign an experienced striker and having to play a full back as a make shift striker.
I said it at the time and every week since and does not matter how this game finishes it was beyond ridiculous not signing a striker and will cost us promotion.
No we don’tWe need to give the lad in the U23 a try (Thompson ?). We cannot go on like this.
Its so annoying watching a talented side trying their hearts out being let down by those at the top
Of course it does![]()
You do know that we'd still lose games even with a striker yeah?
I'm pretty sure it's you who doesn't have a clue or enough brain cellsSpeakman for the third window in a row has left us short. He doesn’t have a clue.
It helps if they are good but Man Utd have turned their fortunes around with a shite striker who hasnt scored a goal for them on loan from a championship club
Yep and still be nowt we can do about it for every match of this season.Every week goes by and you can make the same point again and again.
It's not baffling at all though is it?
Literally everyone would have taken a striker.
The issue is whenever this boring debate comes up, people just assume that we'll be signing someone class, and it wouldn't be the second coming of Will Grigg.
If you trust your process, and all signs point to the fact that we should, then you don't deviate from it or panic buy someone we don't think will contribute.
It's an utterly pointless debate because any time we win it doesn't get mentioned, and the only way for someone not to turn around and go "we should have just signed a striker man fuck sake any striker", would be if we made the playoffs. But even then you'd still probably get some people whinging that we would have been in the automatics if we signed a striker.
The debate completely ignores any semblance of nuance because it never factors in that the striker we signed could have been shite, might not have fit in to the system, our league form tanks anyway trying to incorporate him and we're also lumped with his wages for 3 years, which impacts on next season's budgets and so on.