New strikers next season,

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Cheeky bid for Lambert?

 

[Shipley8312]

i think we are in a tricky position when it comes to finding a striker for next season.

only just avoiding relegation ( to be fully confirmed ) means it will be hard to poach any from the teams above us or indeed from the prem league.
which mean we either buy a big name from the prem who is in the twilight of his career with not alot left to offer in a league as competitive as ours.
Or as we did with sam balldock we shop in league 1 for talent with potential.

im sure as in recent we will shop in the foreign markets too but this has also proved to be hit and miss

i dont envy the scouts task for the summer ahead

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Agree with the above, even freeing up some wages via the impending cull, we will find it difficult to attract high quality, proven, keen goalscorers. Should be fun though!

 

[glasfryn]

i think we are in a tricky position when it comes to finding a striker for next season.

only just avoiding relegation ( to be fully confirmed ) means it will be hard to poach any from the teams above us or indeed from the prem league.
which mean we either buy a big name from the prem who is in the twilight of his career with not alot left to offer in a league as competitive as ours.
Or as we did with sam balldock we shop in league 1 for talent with potential.

im sure as in recent we will shop in the foreign markets too but this has also proved to be hit and miss

i dont envy the scouts task for the summer ahead

Warren found Walton maybe he already has someone in mind

 

[WhingForPresident]

Borja Baston from Atletico (on loan at Zaragoza) or Sergio Araujo from Boca (on loan at Las Palmas) would be interesting, and possibly within our bounds.

Luciano Becchio is obviously well out of favour at Norwich, would Hughton be tempted to sign him up again? Who knows whether he has still got it though..

 

[Pintos]

I can see Lambert going to newly promoted Bournemouth & Boscombe

 

[KJP]

I'd get Solanke on loan from Chelsea as a backup striker, only 17/18 years old but knows where the net is

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Any truth in the rumour that we were offered Kermogant as well as Stephens in a £1.4 million deal?If so I wonder who it was who didn't like the look of the free scoring soon to be prem striker?

 

[Bwian]

i think we are in a tricky position when it comes to finding a striker for next season.

only just avoiding relegation ( to be fully confirmed ) means it will be hard to poach any from the teams above us or indeed from the prem league.
which mean we either buy a big name from the prem who is in the twilight of his career with not alot left to offer in a league as competitive as ours.
Or as we did with sam balldock we shop in league 1 for talent with potential.

im sure as in recent we will shop in the foreign markets too but this has also proved to be hit and miss

i dont envy the scouts task for the summer ahead

I hope that they've been working their asses off since January or earlier.

 

[whosthedaddy]

I think I'm correct with the following fact...

FIVE Albion 'strikers' managed SIX league goals between, for Pete's sake Darren Bent almost matched that in One month at the club and has surpassed that easily in his short stay at Derby where he's helping them to a playoff position.

We're no footballing scouts but I think the majority of us could easily have picked out and bought cheaper striker options from the lower leagues and easily beat our rabbles tally.

 

[joker]

Matt Smith from Fulham, affordable, and scores goals, put him up front with Baldock, you'll see

 

[severnside gull]

Matt Smith from Fulham, affordable, and scores goals, put him up front with Baldock, you'll see

Good choice

 

[J2 DOG]

Need to sign young, hot prospects aswell as proven scorers. I like the look of Elliot Lee at West Ham U21 s . Already better than CMS !

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Zamora to replace COG
Vaz Te to replace CMS

Sign the clone of Ulloa to replace Best



Job done for strikers.

 

[Lurchy]

Georgios Samaras? Doesn't appear to have a future at West Brom, is good in the air and works well as a target man for others to play off.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

A fair few unrealistic targets being mentioned on here I think.

Gestede has had an excellent season, and will only move upwards. Rhodes was mentioned (admittedly by BG) on another thread: he too will go to better things than Blackburn. Bamford is apparently more likely to be loaned to a Premier League side next season- a West Brom sort of level club.

Matt Smith is more realistic, but is largely unproven at Championship level (virtually all his goals this season have been in League One I think). Le Fondre looked overweight and lazy when I saw him play for Bolton against us recently, and tends to score far more off the bench than he does when starting. We need a starting striker, not an impact sub.

One name mentioned that interested me is Ruben Reid. Not that I imagine he'd be our saviour, and he'd have to make a huge step up, but he might be worth a little gamble as an extra option in conjunction with others. Young, clearly knows where the goal is, scored a few in a side that's not been prolific as a whole. Plus the last two players we got off Plymouth haven't done too badly....

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Double post.

 

[hailshamseagull]

Said it before on other threads and il say it again on this one, one player for me and can't believe no one else has said him, Daryl Murphy at Ipswich, always scores against us, big striker with goals and a bit if pace.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Said it before on other threads and il say it again on this one, one player for me and can't believe no one else has said him, Daryl Murphy at Ipswich, always scores against us, big striker with goals and a bit if pace.

He's just had the most successful season of his entire career, under a manager he clearly gets on with, and may well end up promoted at the end of it.

Why on earth would he look at us?

 

[martin tyler]

Personally a big difference is the service provided to the strikers especially from out wide. Good wide attackers assist and score a large number of goals themselves. Our do not. This is the area I think needs correcting 1st. Address this we will address the scoring issues.