Think we may end up having to shop abroad simply because championship striker realise their earning potential. Gykores last season could have fixed his way out but followed the club line for 2 seasons and then got a move to Portugal and a big pay rise. Piroe is just the same all about himself and his earning power down the road. We were also chasing that well known Blackburn winger who had a bit of Chile in him and he has walked away on a free transfer to a La Liga side. Any championship player who has a history of scoring looks after himself. We will end up with Johnny Foreigner striker…… or FARKE will say Rutter or Joseph will score lots of goals so not bothering buying anyone
Everton have posted losses of £370 million over three years, now we probably can speculate how we would have been punished for this but imo we would have been taken to the cleaners but the goodison mob seem to be one of the chosen few of an inner sanctum of favourites...... about time they had their come uppence.....burn the witches,burn them all...
we were linked to bradley dack from blackburn nearly every season.well he became avaliable and has joined Sunderland.
Proof if needed that we don’t have a striker in Bamford. Yes we may have a monster on our hands with Rutter as he has looked good but unlucky today to get a knock. Lets hope he’s ok for next week, but who then if we don’t go out and buy a striker now. Joseph? Gelhardt? We are not going up without scoring goals and we have only scored 3 in pre season.
So as a continuation of the mornings conversation can we all agree that we need a new striker as Bamford just can't cut the mustard physically or mentally?
Think we can agree he hasn’t had a bad game this pre season and has something a bit different. Once he scores his first goal he may not stop scoring. That’s what I was getting at mate. We may have a monster or he could be a powder puff but he’s been way way better than Bamford who has shown us a few minutes of decent play but looked useless and uninterested for most of pre season
Regardless of Bamford ability he’s just another forshaw. Career is over and sooner we realise it the sooner we can move on and buy the striker we should have bought three years ago
An extended season due to World Cup break. A shortened pre season because of World Cup and on top of that no manager, no takeover etc. so no Farsley Celtic, Guisley, Tadcaster Albion, York City etc……..
The fact it’s a long season doc at least we have a bit of time to get up to speed. Three or four wins from first eight games would do fine. That’s providing the other glaring issues with the squad are addressed. We’ve seen today what two injuries can do to the squad. That’s five players on treatment table at least and season hasn’t even kicked off.
The player power train goes on big time. Found out yesterday that the £50m release clause in Dembele’s Barcelona contract works in the players favour. PSG have triggered it and looks like Dembele has agreed it, but time limited to today. £25m of the £50m goes straight to Dembele only half to Barcelona, did Orta do that deal ….
Just to add to docs story, If dembele is not sold today the release clause goes up to 100m€. Barca are in panic mode. Also if PSG do not sell Mbappe today he receives a 40m€ loyalty bonus. Not bad considering that he's not gone on their tour of asia and is in Paris training with the youth setup. Seems not only our club write some very bizarre contracts.
