[Albion] Attacking Options

[Berty23]

Maupay is going fine. It would be nice to have more goals from midfield but the thought of people moaning about stuff when we are 8th is amusing. We are punching above our weight and it is amazing.

I am off to check how many goals harry kane and Marcus rashford have scored this season.

Have a good day all.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

One of the crosses that flashed across the goal to nobody was from Maupay. Generally we need to chance our arm and get in there, but it's hard for players to know when to time their run when we insist on playing an extra pass that we don't have to so often.

Trossard was great, but he looks like a winger playing up front when he's in the box, just doesn't have the killer instinct.

Welbeck is the one who looks closest to having Muzza's nous, but we'll never get a run of games out of him

 

[Guinness Boy]

The budget isn’t a red herring. Wages are key to the type of player that might transform the team in your view. That would have a knock on effect on all the contracts of our key players and utterly change our wage bill and annual losses. And even if ££ wasn’t a factor in landing this player. Why come to us ? When by definition, then presumably the top 6 six and the best clubs in Europe are competing for you too.

PS : the 3 or 4 terrible teams point. When exactly were there not 3 or 4 terrible teams ? This is pretty much a given every single year and hardly an excuse to explain away why Albion are doing ok or well.

Firstly you've read into the post what you want to, I'm not talking about a "star striker" or the mystery "20 goal a season" striker here. I used the phrase "attacking option". In my view we need a number 9 type player who can take penalties as another option to play with Maupay or instead of him. This gives Maupay competition, fills a gap that we obviously have and insurers us when Welbeck gets yet another six week injury (@NooBHA did a good post on this a while ago about how once a player is injury prone they are almost always injury prone).

And when you sign a new player you don't also re-negotiate the contracts of all the other ones. That would be terrible business and I'm pretty sure we have the best in the game at that sort of thing - supposedly anyway.

The teams are relevant this season because we probably only need a couple of draws between now and May to finish 16th which is our par. And yet we'll lose the good will of the home support if that happens,

 

[Shins]

My friend sent me this a few days ago, think he saw it on twitter or something.



Didn't post as its own thread because it's just paper talk, although strange we're the only club named. No idea if the journo has any credibility or not.

Can't see it happening but he would be perfect. Feel a left footed forward would add some balance. Quick and strong and also good on the ball. Would be our best finisher by far.

- Sorry that picture has sized massively

 

[Live by the sea]

I think if the midfield contribute a bit more we would be fine . Moder looks like he’s getting closer to scoring in the PL , he’s getting into good positions and has a decent shot . Adam needs to contribute more with his shooting , his technical ability is very high so I’m surprised he hasn’t scored at least 3 from the good chances he’s had . Mwepu can score as we’ve seen .

 

[Live by the sea]

Daily star journalist with less than 2000 followers on Twitter . Complete & utter nonsense from a moronic newspaper I would assume . Wages alone would be impossible within our budget plus Leicester wouldn’t let him go .

 

[Shins]

Daily star journalist with less than 2000 followers on Twitter . Complete & utter nonsense from a moronic newspaper I would assume . Wages alone would be impossible within our budget plus Leicester wouldn’t let him go .

Yeah I expect he's probably already on more than we could pay. Think it just highlights that the sort of player we should potentially be after is probably still really quite out of our reach. We have to accept younger players, often from another league, or older players of good value like Welbeck (often with something to prove) are what we need to work with.

 

[Here'sWally]

It's a weird situation really.

We have nothing to complain about. People are only getting frustrated because we are so good. If we were less good, less people would be complaining, perversely.

People seem to think that if the world made any sense then we would be scoring more of our chances, which, if that were the case, would mean we would probably be looking at Champions League football.

Wrong.

If the world made any sense we wouldn't be creating all these chances and dominating even the top teams in this league. It's not our lack of goals which violates the laws of football. It's our abundance of chances.

You want things to even out and for the universe to make more sense? Well that would mean less chances, not more goals.

We've arrived early to the party, the food isn't ready, the lights aren't dimmed and the hot guys and girls have yet to arrive. Seems rubbish.

But we are at the party. Shine off those dancing shoes and limber up.

The party is on and it's going to be a madness.

 

[zefarelly]

A N Other decent striker, would not only score goals, but also support aid and abet NM . . . A pair working together should get the job done.

Trossard is a winger not a striker.

 

[southstandandy]

Sima, Ferguson, and Ella are probably with a view to next season. We won't spend big on one player.

 

[B-right-on]

My friend sent me this a few days ago, think he saw it on twitter or something.

View attachment 143819

Didn't post as its own thread because it's just paper talk, although strange we're the only club named. No idea if the journo has any credibility or not.

Can't see it happening but he would be perfect. Feel a left footed forward would add some balance. Quick and strong and also good on the ball. Would be our best finisher by far.

- Sorry that picture has sized massively

Can't see it personally as we're a 'small' club and he could go to a bigger club here or in Europe.

But I'd would be a (wet) dream come true if so.

 

[Icy Gull]

The budget isn’t a red herring. Wages are key to the type of player that might transform the team in your view. That would have a knock on effect on all the contracts of our key players and utterly change our wage bill and annual losses. And even if ££ wasn’t a factor in landing this player. Why come to us ? When by definition, then presumably the top 6 six and the best clubs in Europe are competing for you too.

PS : the 3 or 4 terrible teams point. When exactly were there not 3 or 4 terrible teams ? This is pretty much a given every single year and hardly an excuse to explain away why Albion are doing ok or well.

Succinct and correct

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

If that cross at the end is even six inches further forward, then Welbeck scores, we win 2:1 and we’ve scored 8 goals in 4 matches. Our recruitment strategy is developing young talent, long may this continue. UTA.

 

[GT49er]

My friend sent me this a few days ago, think he saw it on twitter or something.

View attachment 143819

Didn't post as its own thread because it's just paper talk, although strange we're the only club named. No idea if the journo has any credibility or not.

Can't see it happening but he would be perfect. Feel a left footed forward would add some balance. Quick and strong and also good on the ball. Would be our best finisher by far.

- Sorry that picture has sized massively

No apology needed - it enabled me to actually read it!

 

[WATFORD zero]

Can't see it personally as we're a 'small' club and he could go to a bigger club here or in Europe.

But I'd would be a (wet) dream come true if so.

Indeed, but if we were to sign someone like this to go straight into the squad/team, I suspect that we would let Welbeck go in the summer as I would think he is on big wages and we would hope one of Sarmiento, Zeqiri, Connolly or Ferguson would be ready for the step up next season.

 

[b.w.2.]

It's all very well for pundits to "recognise our need for a new striker" but they're not the ones going ever deeper in debt to try to find one. Realistically, how can spending £30m on a striker be justified, even if he scores the goals everyone would like?

Let's say we pay the money and finish seventh instead of 13th. The extra prize money wouldn't cover that fee, and that's before we factor in wages. Would it put an extra 5,000 on the gate? We're already full every match (I know ...). Would it get us into Europe? The Europa League is a money-loser for most clubs. Etc etc.

Of course, we all want to see the team score more goals and win more games. But it costs money, and that means Uncle Tony's money.

Whilst I agree, we still seem to have enough funds to invest millions in our future, whilst strangely ignoring our pressing need for about 3 seasons


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[b.w.2.]

We did not withdraw from any race to sign Edouard in summer because we were never in one.

My understanding is we were after him. I am not alone in that


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[drew]

Go on then I'll bite. I happen to agree with him.

So what PL team has bought who, for how much, on what wages that you look at and say "we should have got him"

Who did we miss in your opinion?

He's posted a few more times yet fails to answer this.

Haller to WHU £45m 10 goals in 18 months
Joelinton to Newcastle £40m 7 goals in 87 games
Benteke to CP, £32m (2016) 35 goals in five and half seasons, ie an average of just over 6 goals a season.

Wood, scorer of 3 goals has just gone to Newcastle for £25m and he's 30!

Plus, if we 'splash' the cash on a striker that will also mean higher wages, not just for him but for others in the squad.

Would I love to see a world class striker banging in the goals, yes. What I don't want is for the current relative sustainability of the club to be thrown away. That happened before and we went through a hell of shit storm lasting several decades.

 

[b.w.2.]

Toney - who decided to stay at Brentford (and on half the goals of Maupay).

Gonzalez - by the looks of it turned us down after coming over here. Now 'ripping it up' in Serie A with almost a QUARTER the goals of Maupay this season (2 vs 7).

Benfica guy - again us vs CL football and one of the top clubs in the world. Yea right.

We're BHAFC not MUFC.

So, again, who?

Toney - who we could have purchased from Peterborough before he went to the Bees.

Gonzalez. Who knows how he would have done here?

Benfica guy - it seems our recruitment army thought we had a chance, even if you don’t.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[b.w.2.]

We were NEVER in for Edouard.It was all press and agent talk

Try and get some facts right

Are you sure Frank? It is NOT FACT that we were NOT in for him.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk