Is it my job to scout players for Sunderland? Give me half an hour and I’ll find a few if you’re that bothered though, as I’ve done previously in this thread. Before making a f*cking arse of yourself why don’t you look at the business happening around us and you’ll see there’s clearly plenty of players available for loan. Why WOULDNT clubs want to reduce their wage bill for 6 months? Obafemi to Burnley. Araujo to Watford. Archer to Boro. Marquinhos to Norwich. Lowe to QPR.
Ian Dennis just said on 5 live that Everton are unlikely to be able to bring anybody in today. Simms looking very unlikely I'd say. I'm obviously losing my mortgage
I can sense the tension in rising, remarks about the football direction, jibes at each other. Jai guru deva om people, jai guru deva ommm
That is the sum of it. We are just up, cannot yet, by the manager's own public statement recently, compete with the top end of Championship for wages, do not have a " must get up" demand hanging around us and we will not be going down. We could do with another decent forward, that's obvious, but they are always the hardest to find and the easiest to get wrong, lumbering the club with someone not good enough. If we don't get one the sky won't fall in
We won one in seven with no strikers. You are one injury away from the same thing happening. Why would you not want to just have a bit cover incase the worst happens? I find that bizarre. We aren’t in a position where we need to throw stupid wages about. We can still do it within our price range.
Always liked Watmore but we have more than enough wingers already and he's nowhere near the level of our starters. Would be competing for a place on the bench
With our luck if we don't get in at least another striker then it is nailed on that Gelhardt gets injured at Millwall
My view: We absolutely need a second striker Ideally we need a third, but absolutely not essential Ideally we will sign somebody who fits "the model" However "the model" and "the project" can be enhanced counter-intuitively by signing somebody who doesn't fit it. Signing a player we wouldn't normally target, who is able to fill a gap that helps us improve results in the short term, is helping those that are part of the "project", even if he isn't Importantly, that person MUST NOT be expensive. They have to be a cheap option. Throwing money at this problem should only be if its a long term prospect
I never once said i didnt want cover what i said is i dont want us to just sign anyone. You just want a person in the door but what if that player is awful and eats up our wage bill. Or they have a shocking attitude and that rubs off on our younger players and disrupts everything It has to be the right signing for the short or long term not just signing anyone
Short term deal, loans etc. my point is I just don’t think we should be too fussy. Avoid having just the 1 striker at all costs.
Starting to get a bit jittery now, mind. Disaster if we don’t bring another striker at the very least. The leniency in me says that anything else would just be a ‘bonus’, but could really do with some experience in midfield with Evans out.
Its those last 3 words that are the problem. I know its just language, but its what's being picked at. It's definitely not "at all costs". But the line we should be drawing about where that maximum cost lies might be shifting.
Definitely need a striker. Listening to TM at the weekend I think he would quite like an Experienced CM for the rest of the season. Cutting it fine but I think we will see a couple in before close of play. Out of interest how many loans can we get in
how many players should be in the succession list for each position? Lets say its 2/3, lets say for whatever reason we cant get them over the line....what do you suggest?...breaking the pay structure? signing anybody just to keep some randoms on the net happy? In other words throwing the very plan that has us where we are out of the window
