KHV Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 3 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: This is now becoming as important a week for this club as I can remember. We buy a striker this week or we go down - I really believe it's that simple - and if we go down, we might not be in this position again for a decade. Ideally, we need three attacking players and a left back - but if we don't get one striker, someone who can run the channels, be available for the long ball and give us an "out" - if we don't get a striker that lets us be a football team, one that plays in a normal football team sort of way - we're done. Down. Finished. FFP? Don't care. Overpaying? Don't care. If we don't get one that can help, we could be out of the top division and away from the money for years - it could be a £500m problem. Buy a striker this week or die. Disagree, I think we need a DM not just attacking players Luiz and Nakamba are dreadful and Drinkwater looks weeks away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerner's Driver Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 1 minute ago, VillaChris said: Louie Barry shouldn't even be classed as a signing imo, kid may have huge potential but he is only 16 so to me that would be same as anyone we sign at that age who goes into the under 23s/development. Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jas10 said: In all seriousness given he’s one of the best strikers of all time at one stage and obviously forty odd kilos overweight here. Would he improve or hinder that side we put out today. Its an interesting one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Has a transfer window ever been so important? Get it right, the squad may galvanise and gain belief. Get it wrong, we go down, Grealish and others leave, we become broken under FFP probably. Huge week ahead. I’d rather we pay over the odds for a couple now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 1 minute ago, KHV said: Disagree, I think we need a DM not just attacking players Luiz and Nakamba are dreadful and Drinkwater looks weeks away We can still win games with them in the team, we won at Burnley and v Norwich with the first two starting both. Going years back we had a pretty good run in the prem with likes of Sylla and Westwood at the heart of midfield. Where I agree with OBE is we won't be winning many games at all with false 9 as our main striker. It's the critical posiiton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Delphinho123 Posted January 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2020 The more you think about it, the more laughable the striker situation becomes. Did we really think signing one striker, a young lad from a poor league, was enough to survive? I keep hearing we were close to signing another on deadline day but what utter drivel, there should have been 6/7 options available to fall back on even if that were true. This isn’t even taking into account the striker they did sign is, at best, a work in progress and at worst, not good enough for the championship. And now he’s injured. Its Jan 12th and we don’t have a f***** striker at the club who is even remotely good enough for this level. Its an absolute shambles. I’m sorry, it is. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermon Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 At this point I'd want us to simply sign players with attacking intent. 2 strikers, winger, left wing back. Make sure they're tall bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 12, 2020 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2020 For me, in order, in this window we need: Striker ____________________ Left Winger _______________ Right Winger______________ Left Back_________________ Striker____________________ Goalkeeper_________Reina Midfielder______Drinkwater It's nice to get as many as we can - but if we don't get a striker, nothing else will matter. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 36 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: This is now becoming as important a week for this club as I can remember. We buy a striker this week or we go down - I really believe it's that simple - and if we go down, we might not be in this position again for a decade. Ideally, we need three attacking players and a left back - but if we don't get one striker, someone who can run the channels, be available for the long ball and give us an "out" - if we don't get a striker that lets us be a football team, one that plays in a normal football team sort of way - we're done. Down. Finished. FFP? Don't care. Overpaying? Don't care. If we don't get one that can help, we could be out of the top division and away from the money for years - it could be a £500m problem. Buy a striker this week or die. Excellent as always. You'd hope Purslow is thinking this through. But I fear he has more faith in Smith and the current players than he should. We're choc full of players who need to be led. Can't believe how many footballers we have who don't want the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted January 12, 2020 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2020 If we don't sign a striker with either proven ability to score at a decent level or with talent oozing off him, put a fork in this season, it's done. Ideally that needs to be 2. And we could do with a winger with ability as well. You could maybe get away with a single decent striker and a wide forward who can fill a winger or striker role. Everything else is kinda academic at the moment. It'd be nice to have a better LB, we could do with another CM to upgrade on Lansbury. But we're ****ed without a striker and we need another reliable outlet besides Jack, which is a wide man given our 'style'. Don't get at least 1 good striker, though, and we're ****. Completely ****. We were short anyway, but now we're completely bollocksed. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 (edited) We could really do with some of those sweet sweet BS rumours to help take our minds off that. Maybe some talk of a rumoured £30m bid for an injured Jimmy Milner something like that. Edited January 12, 2020 by villaglint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 53 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said: Yeah, let's get Lister in! Smeghead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 44 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: For me, in order, in this window we need: Striker ____________________ Left Winger _______________ Right Winger______________ Left Back_________________ Striker____________________ Goalkeeper_________Reina Midfielder______Drinkwater It's nice to get as many as we can - but if we don't get a striker, nothing else will matter. Would prob agree with this tbh, if the winger thing was also winger/IF etc. I think with a good striker and winger/IF we might be ok, ONLY if the team actually starts working hard though...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 31 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Excellent as always. You'd hope Purslow is thinking this through. But I fear he has more faith in Smith and the current players than he should. We're choc full of players who need to be led. Can't believe how many footballers we have who don't want the ball. I agree, particularly on the leadership. Jack leads by example but the team tends to use him as a crutch to get through matches rather than a flag to rally round. I think being Captain helps his game, it certainly doesn’t hinder it. The only real leader in the squad, leaving aside Heaton, is of course Mings and he doesn’t need to be called captain to lead. The rest of them are kites blowing in the wind. We need players with more attitude, they don’t have to be leaders in the true sense but they have to be up for the fight and bring some of that to the others in the team. There are not many strong characters, we need one or two with bite who the others will feel the strength of and who will put a bit of fear into the opposition. Being decent footballers might be handy too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV82 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 We need an entirely new central midfield. Defenders can’t defend with opposition midfielders sprinting at them with the ball having bypassed our spineless midfield. Nakamba has potential but needs to seriously improve his skill/confidence on the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Even while City were cruising today, every time Jack had the ball they kicked him. From the off we gave KDB and the rest of the world class players on show acres of space to do what they wanted. I agree that a striker is the priority, but by God I wish we had a few nasty sods in the team.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 2 minutes ago, av1 said: Even while City were cruising today, every time Jack had the ball they kicked him. From the off we gave KDB and the rest of the world class players on show acres of space to do what they wanted. I agree that a striker is the priority, but by God I wish we had a few nasty sods in the team.. Thought this myself. Far too nice, in fact, just weak as piss, a team of absolute pissants. We need to be nasty, tactically nasty. It's just not in Smith to be this way. Could do with Bielsa in charge tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 I've said it since the window opened but Bowen is a must for me. Not only do I think he is good enough to make the step up, but he certainly guarantees goals in the championship and whilst I would hope that the aim of everyone at VP is survival, I don't think they should be naive to possibility of relegation.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 We need more than just a few lukewarm bodies if we are to stay up. The players coming in must be real quality footballers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 54 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: For me, in order, in this window we need: Striker ____________________ Left Winger _______________ Right Winger______________ Left Back_________________ Striker____________________ Goalkeeper_________Reina Midfielder______Drinkwater It's nice to get as many as we can - but if we don't get a striker, nothing else will matter. Obviously we need a striker but it’s interesting to me that people are really prioritising wingers as well - it’s not like we aren’t scoring goals and Grealish is playing on one of those wings anyway (though I accept people might want to move him to CM). The goals we concede is a way bigger issue to me. But striker is totally essential and priority number one of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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