January 2018 transfer window thread.

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Deeney knows how to properly lead a line, DCL is learning still, if DCL bulks out and Duncan teaches him how to bully people, he will be a vastly better player than Deeney, but we REALLY need a number 9.
Troy blinkin Deeney wouldn't improve our side. Rather wait until the summer then get that desperate. Fix the shambolic defence first. DCL and Niasse will be fine until then, and if Sandro finds some form.
 
Now we’re out of Europe our squad looks way too big! Barkley leaving seems inevitable. Mirallas needs to go, Besic should probably leave for the sake of his career and McCarthy may as well go if anyone will take him. Maybe others too.

Any incomings need to be top quality, straight into the first 11 kind of players in the 24-28 age bracket. Our squad is overloaded with players with ‘potential’.
 


We don't tho. We have the same number of goals more as we did last year with the same number of games. "Because of 'manager x wants him'" is how we got here.

We NEED a CB.

Im not disputing we need a CB, but we lack a real Striker also, a Striker doesnt just score goals, as ive said countless times :

We lack a focal point, somebody to play off, the modern number 9 who leads the line, knocks it down, holds it up and brings others into play, for all their qualities Rooney, DCL, Niasse, Sandro, none of them can play as a number 9 effectively in the Premier League, Rooney used to be able to and when DCL gains experience he will be able to, Niasse and Sandro IMO are much better playing with a number 9.

Of course thats not our only problem, but somebody for Iceland to hit from out wide, an out ball from our CBs, the long hopeful punt through the middle, basic stuff that we cant do as a team, it drives the whole team unit back 20 yards and constantly puts us on the backfoot.
MoutsGoat, Nov 9, 2017
 

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