ValBlue
Player Valuation: £20m
If we fail to bring a striker in before the game against Fulham it’s been a failure of a window, sorry.
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I'd be interested in a zero fee loan for Kylian Mbappe as well
Disagree quite strongly with this tbh.
Everyone connected with the club knows how desperate we are for strikers. And we are about to go into a new season with only Neil Maupay available at centre forward. We haven't bought a player for a fee in 11 months.
We have 2 weeks to get Dyche a side that is ready to play premier league football, because right now, the manager has no chance with the options he has available. If the squad hasn't been improved by game 1 then it will have been a hugely negative transfer window.
I'm actually exasperated at the lack of strikers. I accept no excuses from the club, they don't deserve any benefit of the doubt.
God Benfrey
Player Valuation: £6m
Yeah I get you but I'd rather mills/Dobbin or whoever get 3000 minutes playing in the champ then 200 mins off the bench for us
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
He aint going to a bigger club than the one hes at now, his injury record is diabolical and his ability is nothing special.
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
I keep trying to point this out. Young, Branthwaite and Danjuma into the squad for Mina, Coady and some who barely featured is already a decent improvement on last season’s squad, in terms of options and attacking quality. Even if we don’t get EBT it shows the next step is to get a 9, and the ability to bid what it takes to get one.
We’re not in an ideal position but we’ve moved forward not back so far, and not every team in the league has.
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £20m
‘We tried’ and ‘Danjuma can do a job at CF’ just will not cut it. We were in the EXACT same position last year and we basically gave up 9 points due to the squad not being fit for purpose - and we felt the ramifications of those ‘write off fixtures’ until the very. last. day. of the season where we were saved purely by a wonder goal by - that’s right, a midfielder. Not a striker, because we didn’t have one.
We have already brought in a striker.
Danjuma. Granted not the chest beating number 9 type people are clamouring for.
But he can play there. I fully believe he will lead the line when dcl is unavailable, then play out wide when dcl plays.
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £20m
He’s a winger and you’ve proved my point from above
The problem is though mate we finished last season with our lowest points total.
Sure, we've signed Danjuma but none of us know if he can do a job and if he gets a knock then are we scoring goals?
Think back to Bournemouth and how we didnt create anything in a game we had to win to stay up.
If we don't bring a couple in for the final third, we deserve to go down. Circling the drain is one thing but the clowns at this club are taking the piss.
I've not got the appetite for another relegation scrap, just signing a couple of half decent players in the final third will sort us.
We’ve brought in Young and Danjuma. However losing Mina as a first teamer and even Coady and Simms as backups means that we are at the very least in the same position as we were last season, we are certainly not stronger. It’s looking currently like Michael Keane will be a starting centre back for us rather than 5th choice like he should be, and Maupay is currently the only fit central striker at the club at any level. This situation needs to change this week, not in the last week of the window. I want Thelwell sacked if we go into the Fulham game without any further signings.
say that quietly @Eggs might take offence
Nightman
Player Valuation: Retiring at the end of season
The way we played when Dom came back in the team end of last season is probs what kept us up in the end. Although the goals weren't there, the high press from him pushes the entire team another 20 yards up the pitch and puts us in a great offensive position, gained from a turnover of possession.
That's not to say we can't replace him, but we need that type of player to get the best out of this team - McNeil especially.
You can see the entire team dropping back when Maupay does similar, because they don't have the faith that he'll enable a turnover and that creates a big gap between him and the midfield. So Maupay's isolated and the midfield is inviting pressure.
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Or as his stats show, he can play a cross the front 3 with no problems at all.
He will be our starting no9 for Fulham.
Yep he is a stop gag and we are kicking the issue down the road for another 12 months. But this lad will be leading the line in dcl"s absence.
If another striker comes in, it's because dcl won't be available much for the season.
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