cant see anyone calling MON, quite the opposite just asking why we no longer need a striker, if we do need one then why are we not concerned that we dont seem to be looking for one with any urgency. I read I wont be rushed, I am meeting this week to discuss targets. Just would like to see some urgency.
Looking at the bigger picture, Bruce seems to have brought in players that are well capable of doing well in this league. However, for one reason or another he could not gel them into a solid unit that were playing as a team. MON on the other hand seems to have hit the groung running, and has managed in a short time to make these very same players, with one or two changes to the starting line up, look a very hard team to beat.... I certainly would welcome an additional striker to the squad if he was better than we already have; but I would also argue that we are not in any desperate situation where it is essential that we do so.
I certainly ain't having a go at the manager. The fact's are we sold Bent for 24 mil, and also got 6 off the Gyan deal. I'm pretty sure if the board even gave him half of that Mon would some idea who to get. I just want what I was promised. Forward's at start of last Season: Bent, Gyan, Jone's, Welbeck and Campbell, there's just no comparison to what we have now.
But how do you know that the legs are not peddling at 50 to the dozen, even if up top all seems calm? Nobody has said we no longer need a goal scorer at all but the need for a panic buy has definately gone now imo. Mon's recent appointment and points return has bought us time to plan properly and recruit the best candidate and not just any old ****e we then get stuck with for years, preventing us bidding for the right player in the summer. I think we will beat Swansea and Norwich to reach 30 points by the end of the month and beat boro in the cup. That confidence wasn't there 6 weeks ago. It is now. That's the big difference.
We have not got a striker who is pulling his weight though, we are relying on Sess and Seb to do everything. If either of those pick up an injury we will stagnate, if they both got injured we would drop like a stone. We are not safe yet, I don't want us to take a the Gamble. If you keep Gambling, sooner or later your luck alway's run's out, then it's 5 year's work down the drain.
When all is said and done strikers are VIPs and we could do with a new one. I suspect it takes time to 'woo' somebody good and MoN has not had the time, SB did. Still he would be showing he could walk on water and it would keep the momentum going if he did do it. It would make me sleep at night better too, 17 points IMHO needed....
I bet if Mon got Heskey here as a stop gap, people would be up in arms and that's the difficulty Mon faces. Stop gaps are just tomorrows problems. I think we will get Bents replacement with Mon in charge but they don't grow on trees. Good ones don't anyway. I'd sooner hang on till August to get a headline act rather than get stuck with a B movie star we can't shift on. I'd love the Djib back permanently mind, as I think he would love the central lone striker role with Sessegnon behind him.
we dont know whats going on and if we get someone great.all I am saying is it seems risky to me not to have someone, even if its a short term loan, I would just feel easier.
