[Football] FFS Tony Bloom

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The reality is that we are 8th. Bollocks to dropping points...you don`t drop points. . Fact ..We have one more point than we had this morning. Thats one gained !!

It's a statistical blip. The chasing pack will swallow us up over the xmas period due to our continuing failure to score for toffee

 

[Bry Nylon]

Please please please get us a Premier League quality striker

I'm as frustrated as you are but that is an utterly pointless statement. A 'Premier League quality striker' is, by definition, a striker currently playing in the PL and scoring goals.

So which one is it you are suggesting Tony Bloom just lifts and shifts to Brighton? Salah? Mane? Ronaldo?

 

[Icy Gull]

I'm as frustrated as you are but that is an utterly pointless statement. A 'Premier League quality striker' is, by definition, a striker currently playing in the PL and scoring goals.

So which one is it you are suggesting Tony Bloom just shifts and lifts to Brighton? Salah? Mane? Ronaldo?

Five years in is it unreasonable to think we may have signed or nurtured one who was up to the job? It’s a complete cop out to suggest we should have signed a top three striker. Are you suggesting that our strikers are as good as any club not in the top 3 ?

Our strikers, Welbeck aside are not up to it at this level

 

[Swansman]

I'm as frustrated as you are but that is an utterly pointless statement. A 'Premier League quality striker' is, by definition, a striker currently playing in the PL and scoring goals.

So which one is it you are suggesting Tony Bloom just shifts and lifts to Brighton? Salah? Mane? Ronaldo?

No, it is a striker of Premier League quality... not necessarily already playing in the league, but with the right quality.

It is by no means a simple task though. Whenever you make that investment you have to commit to it and give the player time, opportunities and lots of money. If a high profile signing goes badly it can easily turn out like Locadia. Failed striker signings are more common than successful ones.

 

[BNthree]

The clubs failure over many transfer windows, was just exemplified by us having to bring on Locadia.

Dismal. Just dismal

Loads around me were openly laughing at Locadia coming on.


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[dejavuatbtn]

There are not many Maupays about who also score goals. He works so hard for the team and keeps opponents occupied. Giving Potter money for a striker isn’t the answer of there are none out there who are available and fit his plan. I would imagine it is top of their list but we have spunked a lot of money up the wall on potential in the past. Seems that this striker buying game is more down to luck than judgement, and TB isn’t going to break the transfer bank nor pay silly wages. We are not in that league, and won’t be for some while yet.

 

[Lower West Stander]

When you look at who others have signed…

Watkins, Adams, Edouard, Ings. There’s 4 we didn’t buy.

And one division lower are loads worth a try.


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[Bry Nylon]

Five years in is it unreasonable to think we may have signed one who was up to the job? It’s a complete cop out to suggest we should have signed a top three striker. Are you suggesting that our strikers are as good as any club not in the top 3 ?

No, I'm not suggesting that. Our strikers are currently woeful. But it is the hardest position to recruit as they cost a fortune with no guarantee of results, everybody wants them and if you are in demand as a PL quality striker then frankly, Brighton and Hove Albion is not top of your list.

Chelsea signed Lukaku for £97.5m - the very embodiment of a PL quality striker, you would think. So far he's scored fewer goals than Maupay.

So what I am suggesting is just saying, "get us a PL quality striker" without making any suggestions of whom that might be, is a pretty pointless endeavour.

 

[Bry Nylon]

No, it is a striker of Premier League quality... not necessarily already playing in the league, but with the right quality.

Ah. Like Lukaku.

 

[Stat Brother]

There's no way of positively spinning this.

You're new.

 

[Stat Brother]

When you look at who others have signed…

Watkins, Adams, Edouard, Ings. There’s 4 we didn’t buy.

And one division lower are loads worth a try.


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That rather falls down at "worth a try".


They aren't worth a try because that punt will still set the club back £20m+.


Zeqiri for £2m from the Swiss second division is 'worth a try' - he's not good enough, but worth a try.


Gary Goals isn't secretly playing in The Championship.

 

[Beach Hut]

People happily criticise our chairman for not buying a striker, wonder what they would feel about a £67m loss

 

[Swansman]

Ah. Like Lukaku.

Sure. Or more realistically: undiscovered gems. Out in Europe, outside of the big leagues, there is surely somewhere around 20 strikers who would do a at-least-as-good-as-NM job. Problem is that at any given time there will be a bunch of clubs, some with far more resources than Brighton, trying to sign those players. Which is why it really isnt as simple as some people think it is.

 

[timbha]

People happily criticise our chairman for not buying a striker, wonder what they would feel about a £67m loss

I understand people’s disappointment tonight and hope that by the morning they will see the bigger picture. We are doing quite nicely at the moment.

 

[Dave the OAP]

In what F4cking universe is Locadia better that Zeqiri?

He was fecking abysmal when he came on….why? Are we really that strapped for players?

I know we are looking after Lamptey, but when he made the leeds manager change the full back at half time as he had tore him a new one, WE STOPPED PASSING TO HIM IN THE SECOND HALF and he was taken off .for f4ck sake! Leeds breathed a sigh of relief and could have nicked it when we were sticking about at the back!


We are so one paced and tonight was bloody awful.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Sure. Or more realistically: undiscovered gems. Out in Europe, outside of the big leagues, there is surely somewhere around 20 strikers who would do a at-least-as-good-as-NM job. Problem is that at any given time there will be a bunch of clubs, some with far more resources than Brighton, trying to sign those players. Which is why it really isnt as simple as some people think it is.

Which is exactly what I’m saying?

(With the slight caveat that you don’t know if these undiscovered gems are PL quality / have the quality to play in the PL - however you wish to phrase it - until they’ve been tested at this level. Until then you have to say “ potential PL quality.”)

 

[portlock seagull]

Strikers at our club seem to come round like comets. Any NSC astrologists care to tell us when we’ll next get one?

 

[Icy Gull]

People happily criticise our chairman for not buying a striker, wonder what they would feel about a £67m loss

You don’t fund a football club to make money, fact. If your chairman is going to publicly target a top10 finish he needs to fund it, fact

 

[Lower West Stander]

That rather falls down at "worth a try".


They aren't worth a try because that punt will still set the club back £20m+.


Zeqiri for £2m from the Swiss second division is 'worth a try' - he's not good enough, but worth a try.


Gary Goals isn't secretly playing in The Championship.

How do you know?

I’d love it if we had Toney


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[Durlston]

I see James Tilley scored again for Crawley today. Bring him back!