Are they meant to be any better? Ings & Wilson, horrific injury records - £30M+ and Villa wages for Ings (100k a week), Edouard ?,
I’d take all of them over Locadia and Connolly. Plus they’d be in a better overall team.
Are they meant to be any better? Ings & Wilson, horrific injury records - £30M+ and Villa wages for Ings (100k a week), Edouard ?,
Its so strange is almost embarrassing now. We need a striker and we spunk millions on a CB...what is the clubs issue in winning games?
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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The frustrating thing is it would be more understandable if other clubs weren't signing strikers either, but the fact is they are. The likes of Adams, Ings, Edouard, Wilson etc. have all moved clubs in recent windows yet we've seemingly decided we're better off shopping in below par foreign leagues, meaning we've ended up with the likes of Ali J, Locadia and Andone, or relied on a clearly not yet ready kid in Connolly. Welbeck was the sort of striker we need, and even he was to paper over the cracks after we failed in a previous summer to sign anyone.
If our recruitment team can't do the job, find one which can. If the budget is the issue then be honest about it and stop pushing the ridiculous "top 10" idea because we really aren't doing it on a budget.
FFS why are people making stupid remarks like this about someone who's spent about £200M, give or take a few dozen millions, on this club?
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?
I’d take all of them over Locadia and Connolly. Plus they’d be in a better overall team.
Its been a huge mistake by the club going in to another season without rectifying this...surely everyone can see this??!
Or maybe you can jog over somewhere? Newcastle?
Connolly can’t be part of the discussion with those in my opinion, he’s still only 22
Agreed on Locadia, but again to many expensive recruitment mistakes in the past are holding us back
The thing is Connolly is one of our first team strikers so has to be. I personally think he should be in the Championship finding his way, but he’s not so has to be included.
Connolly can’t be part of the discussion with those in my opinion, he’s still only 22
Clearly someone that’s sits at home behind a keyboard and never travels up and down the country spending your hard earned money
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Its not even necessarily about splashing big money on a marque signing, at the very least we needed some competition for places up front and to give the manager a few more options. Instead we pretty much have one recognised striker, a sicknote with a history of never playing and a player who failed to score in the MLS! Its been a huge mistake by the club going in to another season without rectifying this...surely everyone can see this??!
He has also received over 500 million and publicly said top ten is the aim
That doesn’t come cheap
The whole footballing world can see our continual failings in the final third. Including Tony Bloom. ESPECIALLY Tony Bloom. If he fails to address it, then it's clearly a conscious decision for whatever reason :shug:
He is some bloke in Sweden hammering away at the keys!
Clearly someone that’s sits at home behind a keyboard and never travels up and down the country spending your hard earned money
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