Bet Niasse is furious he left before the great locker vacating of 2017.
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Man City?You mean an 18 year old with no top flight experience and still learning the game?
Yeah that works as well. I remember all the successful teams who have one striker and a kid as back up, erm.....struggling here with one.
Is this the answer? Have the reserves fighting for a place in the team? Balls to signing players at all then, always an academy player there ready to fight for a place in the team.
Just wondering, we have had like one academy player come through in the last what? 6 years in Davies. Before that Rodwell, why all of a sudden has our academy gone POOF squad full of players ready for top level premiership football?
Pretty sure Iv got more money than Moshiri at this stage the bad fraudster.
He's forgetting that we didn't fail to land either, we swerved it.Please note that we didn't buy either of them.
We wouldn't if spent under Kenwright. That's been proven over and over again. And we've loaned out Holgate? Now I'm fuming.I'm happy with the transfers we've done but the money we've spent in this window, deducting the 9m for Oviedo and Gibson + the 1m for Holgate's loan is all covered by the extra TV money. There's no evidence to suggest we ever had anything like the 100m that was banded about by the itk's and newspapers when Moshiri took over.
If Kenwright was in charge I'd expect us to have spent similar amounts to what we have in the last two windows. If we're being positive we can say they're saving it until the summer but Koeman had to come out and put pressure on the board to get players in, worrying sign to me. At least a sign that doesn't suggest we're about to spend a lot of money in the near future.
We've gone more narrow and allowed the WB's to create our width.
We've gone more narrow and allowed the WB's to create our width.
Our business doesn't exactly scream "big money ballers", but getting rid of deadwood is always good. Getting rid of 90% of Martinez's dregs, well, that's great. The few signings we've made are looking good as well.
But much like the summer, the manager has come out and said we need X players, we need a Y, we need a Z etc, and we've not actually achieved that. It doesn't really mesh with the grand new vision we're being told about it.
We only have the league left so I don't think we need a huge squad. Clearly if there's someone we want and we can wait until the summer, then it will be cheaper and probably a more viable time to buy. I also think it shows Koeman has faith in our younger players, knowing that we're only an injury away from having to utilise even more. But I was hoping for another striker, and as ever, a playmaker.
Early night lads....What we saying Ian?
In the long term yes. In the short term we now have no back ups to lukaku that have had more than you can count on one finger of premier league experience. Valencia isn't a striker , more of a wide player so not comparable.The point is to improve the first team, which then improves the squad.
You don't buy to just have better than Kone; you buy to compete with Lukaku.
It is the system, but that's because we're not going through someone as poor as Bolasie is. We play a far more varied style - hence why you get Davies threading passes through to Coleman in the box now, for example. In the system with Bolasie, we'd work it wide and he thumps it over Lukaku's head and out for a goal kick.
The system we used with Bolasie simply didn't allow anyone to play well - everything broke down due to him. Not his fault as such as he simply couldn't perform the role asked, but I'm happy he's out and we fixed it instead of persisting.