We're not Arsenal though. He'll get very different service from our team to the side he's used to playing in.
Andre Gray will sign for Bristol City and score against us for them. He'll bag a decent amount of goals and we'll be bemoaning the fact we didn't sign him. If that happens we deserve it for being stringy over £500,000.
Do you blame the Allam's for been stingy, 10 million plus for Hernandez, 7 for Livermore plus all the other dross we have signed. Now we want to spend 9 million on a striker who scored 16 goals last year in the 2nd Division of England, all this whilst we still have Abel, Jelavic and Aluko kicking about the club, also Diame and Snodgrass who have played about 20 games combined and also cost 10 million.
I think Brentford will be laughing all the way to the Bank to have got that much for Gray. If (big If!) we can keep Jelavic and Hernandez then with Akpom, Aluko, Luer etc I think we have got more than enough firepower for the Championship without paying silly money like this.
"Silly money" is normal now. WBA paid up to £8m for Chester. First match they play him at RB second match he's on the bench all match. I know it's early days but clubs are willing to pay a lot of money without being sure of what to do with the player.
Chester proven in the EPL Gray is not.. Chester plays for an international team in the top ten of FIFA rankings
Akpom and Gray are very similar strikers. I do think Anichibe and Akpom/ Hernandez would work well. Bit like Windass and Campbell.
Jelavic has looked poor in the first couple of games, Hernandez can't wait to get out of here and Luer has only ever played two first team games. I don't think we can bank on them to take us up, but we'll just have to wait and see what happens, maybe Abel will come on tomorrow and play a blinder.
So how many times did you see him play for Egypt? Who against? Very hard to judge goalies in internationals as they dont often have much to do. He's only played 13 times for Egypt in 9 years, not sure when these appearances were. So fill us all in GK expert.
We will know tomorrow night if Bruce has been bullshitting us about Hernandez because if he really has turned the corner, he should be starting for us. If he's on the bench, then Bruce is simply playing a poker game with Torino to get them to trigger his release figure rather than get him on loan.
Akpom isnt our striker though.. and there's probably no chance of buying him.. Gray on the other hand is "available" for a rather pricy, but not over the top fee. Im still hoping we're going to match Bristol City and get the deal done in the end. What the allams and Bruce will be thinking is, we're going to lose jelavic and possible hernandez too before the window closes.. so we'll need a new striker anyway.. and we'll want a proven one to play alongside of Akpom who is still raw..
