Our goal scoring issues need to be sorted out in January or else it’s clearly a bottom third finish for us. I don’t think this is a question of shooting practice, we simply don’t have enough goal scorers in the squad. We must sign some goal getters if we’ve any hope of finishing in the top half but who are we going to get in?
Firstly, we need to ship some players out.
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Connolly is currently persona non grata, let’s get him out on a loan. They’ll be demand from Championship clubs that are low on strikers or goals but if he could be sent to the Belgiums in exchange for one of their in form forwards, some might be happy.
As Locadia enters his last 6 months of being an Albion player, a loan out would seem the best for everyone. Perhaps FC Twente who were hot for him before or even the Belgiums. He is not going to do much good here. Perhaps a night club might sign him?
Taylor Richards would be another to loan out. Perhaps to a Championship side who need an attacking midfielder. He is so low in the pecking order, I just can’t see him getting ahead of the dozen midfielders he is competing against for a 1st team start. His development and game time must be prioritised.
Sarmiento would also benefit from game time but the jury is still out on whether he can positively affect the 1st team. If Potter starts to trust him with EPL game time, he might be a solution to the goal drought.
I’m not sure when Alzate will be back but he seems like another goal shy midfielder in need of a loan to get back to full fitness. He’ll be nowhere near the starting 11 this season with a dozen other midfielders preferred.
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It may well be that Sima & Andone are handed back to us. Hopefully they’ll both go straight back out on loan. I suspect that Sima needs to show loan-form before we give him a chance and Andone seems to have gone out of his way to ruin his current loan, perhaps we could cancel his contract, he’s clearly not the same player as he was before those awful injuries.
We may well want to pull back Zeqiri & Mitoma but I suspect their clubs will want to keep them.
Mitoma might be an option if he has scored enough permit-points, but he strikes me as similar to Sarmiento.
What we really need is back-up for Welbeck when he is injured and for Maupay when his confidence deserts him and his shooting prowess degrades to amateur level. However, I’ve a hunch we’ll have to wait until the summer sadly.
Firstly, we need to ship some players out.
OUT:
Connolly is currently persona non grata, let’s get him out on a loan. They’ll be demand from Championship clubs that are low on strikers or goals but if he could be sent to the Belgiums in exchange for one of their in form forwards, some might be happy.
As Locadia enters his last 6 months of being an Albion player, a loan out would seem the best for everyone. Perhaps FC Twente who were hot for him before or even the Belgiums. He is not going to do much good here. Perhaps a night club might sign him?
Taylor Richards would be another to loan out. Perhaps to a Championship side who need an attacking midfielder. He is so low in the pecking order, I just can’t see him getting ahead of the dozen midfielders he is competing against for a 1st team start. His development and game time must be prioritised.
Sarmiento would also benefit from game time but the jury is still out on whether he can positively affect the 1st team. If Potter starts to trust him with EPL game time, he might be a solution to the goal drought.
I’m not sure when Alzate will be back but he seems like another goal shy midfielder in need of a loan to get back to full fitness. He’ll be nowhere near the starting 11 this season with a dozen other midfielders preferred.
IN:
It may well be that Sima & Andone are handed back to us. Hopefully they’ll both go straight back out on loan. I suspect that Sima needs to show loan-form before we give him a chance and Andone seems to have gone out of his way to ruin his current loan, perhaps we could cancel his contract, he’s clearly not the same player as he was before those awful injuries.
We may well want to pull back Zeqiri & Mitoma but I suspect their clubs will want to keep them.
Mitoma might be an option if he has scored enough permit-points, but he strikes me as similar to Sarmiento.
What we really need is back-up for Welbeck when he is injured and for Maupay when his confidence deserts him and his shooting prowess degrades to amateur level. However, I’ve a hunch we’ll have to wait until the summer sadly.
