Well, I don’t suppose there would be any surprise if I was to say we need another striker to help us out during our current deficit.
But I can’t say I’m convinced by any of the rumoured targets.
I hate this speculation, as it’s invariably utter rubbish, but at the same time, I know some of you love it.
So, here we go;
First we have Jack Marriott
Really?
Ok, he’s scored 17 in 30, but this is in league one.
That’s a yawn count of 4.7 out of 5 for me, especially if you consider Bruce is looking to get someone in on a loan, with hopefully a bit better pedigree/proven experience.
Then there’s Leonardo Ulloa,
who’d be much more like it, in that he’s proven and has been there and done it.
He’d want a big pay off though and surely we couldn’t afford him, even on a loan?
He sounds just the ticket and is in my opinion, very realistic.
We always manage to pay more than it seems we can afford, after all.
Yawn factor? Er, there isn’t one, as he’d be a great signing, if only as another indicator of our intent.
He’s experienced and about the sort Bruce wants.
Next there’s Christian Benteke and that really is a yawn factor of 5 out of 5.
Why on earth would he come back to us and possibly ruin his reputation?
With that, I’m bored now and I’ll leave you to it, to comment and add any others that I can’t be bothered to read about.
I can’t see past Ulloa, as he’s exactly the sort Bruce would go for.
But let’s see, eh?
Erm, Ulloa it is then?
Wishful thinking and we need better mids, imo.
Or more accurately, a manager with balls enough to go for the jugular.
Not that I want Bruce out.
We won’t sign anyone in Jan unless we sell. This fffp needs to be scrapped it means that clubs like ours will never be able to compete again even if we had an owner with billions to spend.
Of course we can. We can sign players on loan still. 100% of the wages for loan players is never paid by the team that gets the player, unless it’s like Bayern with James Rodriguez.
Plus, Xia said we’ll sign players. And he and bruce always play down how much money we have, yet we spent money over the summer, brought in large wages, rather big sign on fees to the likes of Terry and even Samba.
And sure you can, if you know what you’re doing. Leicester knew what they were doing. In fact, Puet who supposedly failed at Southampton, knows what he’s doing and he took them from going down to 8th. Winning their last 4 games pretty comfortably. Then look at Everton, 150m spent, sold Lukaku and they’re pretty crap. Even with their recent decent run under Allardyce. Their signings like Sigurdsson and Klaasen have been awful. You don’t need a crap load of money if you know how to scout and sign players.
Mids are OK. Hourihane was top assists in the Championship and regular scorer. Whelan is good at what he does. Grealish and Lansbury have talent. Add to that, Hogan and McCormack scored loads. Kodjia was able to score without any help from the rest of the team, but without him we don’t score enough as the team doesn’t get forward in numbers quickly enough.
It’s Bruce. At the end of the season the fans and owner will have had enough and he will be fired. Too late.
B6 is probably on the money below.
Big game at Derby and a chance for the team to show they can mix it with the teams around us. We need to approach it as if we expect to beat them, not just try to contain them and sneak a win somehow or be happy with a point.
Knowing how highly Bruce thinks of Gabby I wouldn’t be surprised if he is given a new contract instead of anyone new coming in!!
Another striker ? Was not aware we had one at the moment !
A new link. Apparently we’re one of three teams in for Liverpool midfielder, Grujic. Along with Brighton and Galatasaray. I’d say we’re probably the least likely to get him of the three.
Imo, and only mine, i think all these media crap is just guess work, anyone with sense would secretly look abroad for up and coming players, there will be a lot of players at the end of there days looking for some idiot to take them on, we have learn’t a lesson over the years by having someone’s shite , you can bet we already know who’s coming , in a few weeks we will be told.