Grays_1890
Chris Jones
I haven't really seen Afobe labelled lazy either to be fair, BTW I wasn't making comparisons to Austin or saying we should or should not sign Austin, just using Afobe as an example of good players in poor sides....
Fair enough.... Like Berahino for West Brom last season perhaps?!?I haven't really seen Afobe labelled lazy either to be fair, BTW I wasn't making comparisons to Austin or saying we should or should not sign Austin, just using Afobe as an example of good players in poor sides....
They aid £12M for him nd would rip your hands off if you offerd that. I used to like him but he is a striker who doesn't score goals.Would love Shane Long. Great as a sub for pace on the break. Will work his arse off pressing. Can playing out wide if needed too.
Would Southampton sell?
Fair enough.... Like Berahino for West Brom last season perhaps?!?
I haven't seen enough of Afobe to be able to determine his work rate on the pitch, I just remember somebody on here saying that his manager had commented on it when I suggested him as a potential striker from the lower leagues a while back.
They aid £12M for him nd would rip your hands off if you offerd that. I used to like him but he is a striker who doesn't score goals.
He hasn't been trusted as #1 for any length of time at every club he has been at, great energy /work rate but is it enough?It would probably improve if he played for a better team.Would be a reasonable back up.
Re: the striker search
I know it is isnt easy to find the right match, but the Club has surely realised Kane needs a decent back-up since the start of the season. They dont start looking only on Jan 1st.
We have had 4 months to be scouting, putting the feelers out, but alas we look no nearer bringing in anyone, so no doubt HK will playing another 3 matches in the next 10 days or so. The longer we leave ourselves in this sitaution, the stronger the possibility of Kane getting injured.
I really thought it sounded like we might move early for once in this window, especially with the FA Cup match this weekend, alas no, and you get the feeling if we do make a signing at all it will another final afternoon job
We did not plan for months to buy Saha and Nelson.
I doubt we will leave it until the final day (When was the last time we signed someone on deadline day?) I hope we sign a striker within the next week.
'even transfers done on deadline day may have been the culmination of weeks or even months of planning'
Rent a quote wanted to spend 50 million on Tevez and Samba.
'even transfers done on deadline day may have been the culmination of weeks or even months of planning'
Rent a quote wanted to spend 50 million on Tevez and Samba.
Wasn't it Tevez and Cahill?.... with the fees about 20 million lower than that? Had we actually got then it's quite possible that we would've won the league.
Although difficult/expensive Tevez was perhaps doable due to him having that big fall-out with Mancini.Yeah Cahill who Chelsea were after and Tevez from our then title rivals - I think Samba was also a target but he got a silly money contract in Russia iirc