Summer window

Do you think we will get the quality up front we need? What is your hunch at this point

 

Guarantee Speakman wouldn’t have been called a muppet had our reserves beat Hartlepool…

 

no idea how good Mayenda and Hemir are going to be.

I do fear that we’ve “wasted” two striking positions on untested youth. As I’ve said in my posts above, you really don’t want more than 3 strikers in the “expecting to start” first team picture if you only play one up front.

And ideally two of those will be proven and one junior. We’ve gone immediately for two junior. Our one proven striker is more likely to never play again for us than play again for us, but that isn’t guaranteed.

It’s why as much as I like the look of both Hemir and Mayenda, when we signed Mayenda I felt a bit uneasy because I’d rather that “position” in the squad had gone to a striker we could expect to score goals now.

 

I’m not calling him a muppet. They’ve been incredible overall but I’m saying the striker situation as I see it because that is where they have left us weak after the last two windows and we kick off very probably short of one on Saturday.

 

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Is Mayenda not the ‘striker but can play out wide’ player you mentioned? Leaves space for a natural forward does it not?

 

If so that would be great. Mayenda could feasibly cover the Lihadji role in the squad rather than a striker one (I know roles in squad don’t exactly exist but I think you know what I mean)

 

I think 3 wanting to start would get games and would be fine. They get kicked, they sprint and pull hamstrings, get head injuries, have lean spells, need replacing for a different option, get tired playing alone. Other than that I agree with your post.

 

yeh three is the right number. I’m saying a fourth one is where things get messy unless at least one of them can fill a winger position

 

What all this does do is put a hell of a lot of pressure on Hemir. Which could also be the making of him.

 

For all my criticism of our striker recruitment issues there is plenty of credit for them and Hemir is one example of credit. I think he was a good signing. I just want us to go up this time or we’ll lose players. We won’t go up without striker depth. I’d argue not having a ‘second Stewart’ may have cost us automatic as we had momentum.

 

I don't think having four strikers is realistic tbh..2 oven ready strikers, a promising kid and an alternative is best we could hope for. How many 'strikers ' do man City have? I doubt they have four oven ready first teamers. We've only really got semendo and he's unproven. The problem we have is the injuries. They will be fit at some point so you can't sign players for a couple of months as then you'll have five or six by November. I think we could do with one more, a proper centre forward who knows the league

 

Crap examples I know but how many strikers did City have last year? 2?

Arsenal? 2.

Chelsea, with all their spending? Did they even have 2?

having four strikers is a luxury.

(bear in mind we don’t play more games than these teams either, just more league games).

 

Thought we ran out of centre-backs with height and physicality?

 

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There's a theory they tried to teach us at school, I forget the name, which reminds me of transfer windows. It's to do with chasing wasted time because people are reluctant to 'lose' the time they've already invested.

It's like waiting for a bus that hasn't arrived and being angry with the bus company. The longer you persist in waiting the harder it becomes to give up and the angrier you get until, eventually, you think 'f**k it I'll just wait until I have the facts'. Then you find the bus had caught fire and all the passengers died.

Each new day on here sees anguished calculations based on rumour, speculation and click bait ...

... which is rendered pointless by the latest rumour, speculation and click bait.

Good fun and fills in a few idle moments but inevitably futile.

 

Think pritch and Dack could be game changers from the bench

 

Hardly speakmans fault mayenda puled a hammy like

 

I wonder if Dack could be a false no9 with players running off him, especially in away games ...

... I've no idea BTW, just wondering if anyone actually knows.