Are you happy with Ulloa out and O'Grady in?

[dingodan]

Can I pocket the difference?

 

[perseus]

Change of style of play. Not lumping it to a big man in the middle all the time. It has its advantages, but it means keeping Buckley and Lualua.

Futball says O'Grady is faster: http://www.futhead.com/14/players/1460/chris-ogrady/compare/14-3249/

Video shows he is two footed as well. Heading is not so good, but I think the training ground can improve that.

I really wasn't happy with the style of lofting it to Ulloa as our means of attack. I wanted a bit more variety. That could have been achieved with Ulloa though. But sometimes Ulloa was not quite fast enough and his left foot was not used much.

 

[DNB_Seagull]

ITS a BARNES replacement FFS! Besides we have Solly, CMS, Fenelon, O'Grady so far. I'd love for Solly and Fen to get more game time!

 

[portslade seagull]

Im happy, even if the doom-merchants arent.

Stated why im happy on other threads, I cant be bothered to repeat myself.

Easily pleased then , so you think he is a good replacement for Ulloa if he signs

 

[perseus]

I'd sooner have Stephen Ward + Chris O'Grady than Ulloa.

http://www.futhead.com/14/players/1460/chris-ogrady/compare/14-3249/14-3198/

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Easily pleased then , so you think he is a good replacement for Ulloa if he signs

Who even said he is a direct replacement ?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Futball says O'Grady is faster: http://www.futhead.com/14/players/1460/chris-ogrady/compare/14-3249/

Video shows he is two footed as well. Heading is not so good, but I think the training ground can improve that.

I really wasn't happy with the style of lofting it to Ulloa as our means of attack. I wanted a bit more variety. That could have been achieved with Ulloa though. But sometimes Ulloa was not quite fast enough and his left foot was not used much.

be useful if he did get better in more ways than one...Ulloa was pretty useful at defending deadball situations

 

[tigertim68]

I'm pretty sure the club will spend a large chunk of the fee reinvesting in the squad. Have faith and patience people, we'll be fine in the long run.

dream on

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Over the moon. Why didn't we think of this sooner?

 

[tigertim68]

no way

 

[portslade seagull]

dream on

Reinvesting in he infrastructure more to the point.

 

[crookie]

Don't think anyone would be happy as a straight replacement. Bear in mind the club must have been after O'Grady for a while and were not certain that Leicester would meet the asking price for Ulloa. I hope and expect a proven striker around the £3-4million level to replace Ulloa. If we were prepared to spend £1m on Grabban in January, with £7m+ added to the kitty, the club can afford and needs to show some intent

 

[Rogero]

Strange thread.

 

[Zebedee]

Christ have I missed august and it's now September 1?

...

 

[The Wookiee]

A couple of years ago we gambled spending £2million on a striker from the Spanish second division - it paid off

We are now gambling half that on a striker who has scored goals in this league and people are moaning ?

Get some bloody perspective !!

 

[atomised]

Still struggling to find anything that states as fact that anyone official has said o Grady is a direct replacement for ulloa. Is there a source. Or is this just guesswork

 

[Zebedee]

In some respects, O'Grady WILL be Leo's replacement, and in others, not.

By that, I mean that he'll replace him in the SQUAD as, the 'big centre forward', but because of the change of style I'm expecting, that role will be a much less significant one, and the role of 'star striker' will be filled by somebody else.

In my opinion, like.

Star striker? The Albion?

 

[The_Viper]

So for those thumb downers when will it become slightly worrying for you? 3 weeks ago you said don't worry about it, preseason hasn't even STARTED yet, and I was one of you. Now it is HALFWAY through preseason and we've signed one player who seems to be a straight replacement for Upson and are about to lose our top striker.

Our rumours are coming to nothing at all.

Maenpaa (SP) - Any ideas?
Butland - Seems a no go for now
Westwood - Snapped up by Wednesday
Ward - Rumours are wages/fee are stumbling block
Odubajo - Brentford got him

We're missing a GK who is going to be playing every game this season hopefully, we're missing a left back who will do the same, we're missing a key striker and anyone who says COG is it then we could also do with another winger to flesh out the two injury riddled chaps in the wings, and that's just the ones we desperately want for the first game of the season, let alone some depth. They now come in past halfway through preseason, now I am starting to worry, and I'm shocked some aren't.

 

[Dan Aitch]

O'Grady says... "Give me a chance"... probably.

 

[perseus]

be useful if he did get better in more ways than one...Ulloa was pretty useful at defending deadball situations

We still need a stopper centre half. And an extra tall defender when we face Berra and Smith of Ipswich.