hippo Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 21 minutes ago, useless said: Club are in no mood to be ripped off in the search for a striker, if need be we've still got Hogan, Hepburn-Murphy, Kodjia and Davis to call on. Smith will just get on with it and give it his best. If we couldn't build a team in the summer to compete in the Prem - we sure as hell aint going to be able to beg and borrow one with 2 weeks remaining in Jan. The bulk of staying up (or not) - will come from what we have IMO - that doesn't mean we won't get a new striker just that he will probably be around the Kjodia\Wesley level. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 As long as he's better than the last N'zo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 We surely won't be signing NZonzi as well as Drink? Would have been a useful player before we'd got him in as well. Bit quiet isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 (edited) If we want another midfielder, and I certainly feel we need one, then Mendy from Leicester is out of contract at the end of the season and likely to be available, that's who I would be going for. Nzonzi would also be a good option, think he'd give us a lot of what we've missed since Jedinak has left, but with the added bonus that he's quite good on the ball as well. Edited January 14, 2020 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: I suppose in mild mitigation, it's probably been written by a 17 year old girl on work experience who also has to write articles about flooded roads, local killers and whichever Kpop star has turned up at the Bull Ring this week, all within the next five minutes. Exactly true. My 16 year old son did work experience at one of these and having gone in expecting to be photocopying and making tea, within 3 days he was sent out with a photographer to do an interview and write a story. #csb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imavillan Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 28 minutes ago, ender4 said: The issue with that is (if reports/rumours are to be believed) that we are very very close to the FFP limit, and so cannot spend anymore even if the owners were willing to pump in cash. Whilst i'm no FFP expert, one things for sure we are deep in the brown stuff if we get relegated. Back in the championship, loads of empty seats (m'lord), sell our best players etc, queues at the pharmacist for depression tablets, lost production due to an increase in sick days etc, a visit to the sty !!!!! Splash the cash to stay up and we get loads more TV money and then what....maybe a slap on the wrist or more than likely nothing. Needs must chap, needs must. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 15 minutes ago, rubberman said: Exactly true. My 16 year old son did work experience at one of these and having gone in expecting to be photocopying and making tea, within 3 days he was sent out with a photographer to do an interview and write a story. #csb So actual work experience? Sounds like a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Delphinho123 Posted January 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 minute ago, TreeVillan said: So actual work experience? Sounds like a good thing. When he returned, was he speaking in riddles? "'Mum, you won't believe what Dad has just said about that Dinner you just made'" 1 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDVILLAIN Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 The big gamble was in the summer..that gamble has not payed off and now we are going to find it really hard to stay in this league... Who in their right mind came up with this strategy? No fit strikers? The fans could see it a mile away after our summer fiasco. Kodjia has been in a strop since we would not let him leave to join angers in ligue 1.Davis is barely championship quality. I wont mention the other 5-6 players who are barely championship players either. The person or persons responsible for this monumental mess and squandering of million needs to step down or be sacked. I thought the days of the club being in a shambles was well over when edens and co took over...how wrong i was vtid! rant over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 hour ago, useless said: Club are in no mood to be ripped off in the search for a striker, if need be we've still got Hogan, Hepburn-Murphy, Kodjia and Davis to call on. Smith will just get on with it and give it his best. There's literally 12 teams in the Championship who have better striking options than this. If we're ripped off than so be it. Better to pay £10m or even £15m over the odds and stay up than go down. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Shows where we are that I've just seen Borini left Milan on loan and thought he would have been decent for us. Improve us? Yes. Actually be decent? Debatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KentVillan Posted January 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2020 (edited) We're 3 points off 14th with nearly half a season to go. (Edit: that isn't to say we aren't in deep shit at the moment, but this is still very salvageable, even with a bang average striker. Newcastle are in 13th with Joelinton up top!) Edited January 14, 2020 by KentVillan 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 minute ago, OLDVILLAIN said: The big gamble was in the summer..that gamble has not payed off and now we are going to find it really hard to stay in this league... Who in their right mind came up with this strategy? No fit strikers? The fans could see it a mile away after our summer fiasco. Kodjia has been in a strop since we would not let him leave to join angers in ligue 1.Davis is barely championship quality. I wont mention the other 5-6 players who are barely championship players either. The person or persons responsible for this monumental mess and squandering of million needs to step down or be sacked. I thought the days of the club being in a shambles was well over when edens and co took over...how wrong i was vtid! rant over Club in shambles? A bit of an over reaction Our aim was to avoid relegation this season ie 17th or above. With over half a season gone we still are able to do that. We had to replace most of the squad because those that had left/leaving....we did that! We should’ve brought another striker no doubt and that’s a failure but losing three strikers to injury at the same time is bad bad luck. We still have a chance to get a striker but everybody is freaking out rightly or wrongly. Some of the players haven’t stepped up yet no doubt. BUT we are far from a shambles. A couple of good signings now and we could be optimistic of surviving relegation. I am freaking out now about our striking situation but I keep thinking back to avoiding relegation this season was a massive target and we still have a great chance of doing that. A few signings and things will look better..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Clickbait sites have linked us to Cengiz Under from Roma ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villabromsgrove Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 I keep seeing posts about loaning more players. The Premier League rules clearly state that a club may only register two loan players per transfer window, so Drinkwater and Reina have taken up our full loan allowance. Why are we still talking about extra loans? In my opinion one of our two loans should have been used for a 'key' striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonz Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Not getting in another striker in the summer is the mistake. Clearly. I'm firmly of the view that the majority of the players we brought in will come good - whether that's for us or unfortunately, somewhere else. We've also seen so many times in the past that it's incredibly difficult for players from abroad to come into the prem and hit the ground running. Next season is the season we should be judging them. That doesn't help us right now obviously, but i refuse to believe they're all s***. If we had bought another striker in the summer i don't the toys would be being thrown out the pram. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 hour ago, useless said: Club are in no mood to be ripped off in the search for a striker, if need be we've still got Hogan, Hepburn-Murphy, Kodjia and Davis to call on. Smith will just get on with it and give it his best. I see that everybody is dunking on this post, but I'd rather we started with Kodjia (or even Hogan) up top against Brighton rather than trying to pretend we're Barcelona '09 again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 (edited) 45 minutes ago, nick76 said: Club in shambles? A bit of an over reaction Our aim was to avoid relegation this season ie 17th or above. With over half a season gone we still are able to do that. We had to replace most of the squad because those that had left/leaving....we did that! We should’ve brought another striker no doubt and that’s a failure but losing three strikers to injury at the same time is bad bad luck. We still have a chance to get a striker but everybody is freaking out rightly or wrongly. Some of the players haven’t stepped up yet no doubt. BUT we are far from a shambles. A couple of good signings now and we could be optimistic of surviving relegation. I am freaking out now about our striking situation but I keep thinking back to avoiding relegation this season was a massive target and we still have a great chance of doing that. A few signings and things will look better..... Hmmmmm I would say we have been in worse situations But the main strategy plank - ie a sporting director to purchase the players and a head coach to coach them seems to be in tatters or very close to it. IMO the recruitment has been expensive, wasteful and poorly targeted - we have no strikers but an abundance of CB'S ! - Jota just seemed like £4m tossed down the pan - what ever made anyone think he could cut it at this level. Edited January 14, 2020 by hippo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holteend1982 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 20 minutes ago, villabromsgrove said: I keep seeing posts about loaning more players. The Premier League rules clearly state that a club may only register two loan players per transfer window, so Drinkwater and Reina have taken up our full loan allowance. Why are we still talking about extra loans? In my opinion one of our two loans should have been used for a 'key' striker. Can have 4 loans per season and 2 from Premier league clubs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 I was banging the Cahill drum in the summer on a free transfer, very few on here agreed with me. The money saved on Konsa and/or Engels could have gone towards getting another striker or being the difference in landing Maupay. Now it looks like we will be playing up to 6 games with a 5-5-0 formation, 3 of those against direct relegation candidates. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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