There are long standing concerns on his fitness regarding his knees. Rumours he failed a medical at Hull. I don't think he is a Pochettino type of player, good though he is. Especially if he is carrying injuries.
I wonder if there's any chance that this result will stir something under Levy and get him to pull his finger out? Playing half of the season with only one striker has been a massive risk. Not getting it sorted early in the window is another. Failing to do it at all would be ludicrous.
I thought it wouldn't be until March that we would start to see the lads looking tired, this doesn't bode well for the rest of the season. Reinforments needed asap.
This is sounding vaguely familiar. Desperately need a new striker, manager being tapped up for another job by the press, Chelsea not getting top four...it's all so 2012! Can only assume there is a massive injury risk with Austin cos on the face of it, it seems like a no brainer. Can't see us getting anyone in before the last week of the window tbh which is clearly costing us points.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35313998 A small piece of good news. They won't be after Kane or Lloris or Alli any time soon. Although the intriguing downside is that De Gea now appears to be stuck at United for another year
Yes, the news that Real have been slapped with a transfer embargo for two seasons is great news for us, but not so great for United - not that they ever stood the remotest chance of getting either Ronaldo or Bale!
They'll both appeal and go nuts in the next transfer window, then face the ban. They'll also do exactly what Barca did and continue to sign players during their suspension, loaning them out until it's over.
The Wail reports we've opened discussions with Fulham for Dembele II - although the detail that intrigues me is where they say we're willing to make it a cash + player deal. Errm...which youngster, exactly? We're obviously keen to keep hold of Onomah and Winks (and we can probably add CCV, Edwards, and Sterling to the list, at the very least) so either we're somehow going to convince them that Coulthirst is worth £3m or, far more likely, the "+ player" is going to be a loan until the end of the season. David Pleat was spotted at the Ricoh Arena for Coventry's match with Walsall. While the obvious conclusion is he was there to scout Walsall's Rico Henry, who we've been linked to for a while, it's also been reported he was there to run the rule over Coventry midfielder James Maddison, who's been linked with us, Arsenal and Liverpool in recent weeks. Now that FFP has been relaxed, Los Ladrones do Madrid don't need to offload players for the sole reason of balancing their spreadsheets that certain Premier League clubs are only too willing to pay grossly over the odds for like the willing patsies they are.
I'm glad that we appear to be looking at some of the more promising youngsters in the lower leagues, but I doubt we'll find another Dele Alli. That looks like a very, very good deal right now.
It seems that signing Alli for £5m has caused some League One clubs to think they can make much more for their prospects: Coventry have valued Maddison at £10m, while you can see Henry's value creep ever upwards every time he's described as "the new Ashley Cole" or another Premier League club are linked with him (the current list is us, Arsenal, Liverpool, Leicester, Man Utd and Watford)
There's a lot of money in the Premier League right now and the lower league clubs know it. We only got Alli for £5m because everyone else was too stupid to bid for him.
Naismith to Norwich has apparently collapsed over personal terms. Isn't that the ideal type of player for us right now? Strong, hard working, knows the league, not the most prolific scorer but certainly has an eye for goal. Wouldn't cost a fortune and wages would be no problem.
But is he actually going to get on the pitch? Surely Son and Chadli will be ahead of him in almost any scenario and possibly Onomah too.
I wouldn't select any of those if Harry was suspended or injured, simply because none of them are particularly good in his position. Naismith has spent most of his Everton career on the bench so again - no problems there. And when called upon has played behind the striker or led the line quite capably. Would you genuinely be happy if this window closes and we haven't signed back up for Kane?
Swansea have been mentioned as an alternative destination for Naismith this morning, so that might well be why his Norwich move collapsed. Gomis has been utter **** for them this season and I think he's been linked with a move, so this would all tie together. He'd be a far, far better option for them at the moment.
I can't see how a player who can't get into Everton's team could possibly strengthen our squad. I don't believe in 'strikers', just players. We have to aim higher than Naismith, Defoe, Crouch etc. Its better to have Chadli as back up for Kane than any of those.
Strikers are a specal breed, goalscorers win matches, I am not saying that I particularly want any of those players named, but if the choice is one of those 3 or no one as a back up to Kane then I am definitely taking any one of those 3. Naismith would actually be my first choice of the 3 because I think that he would work best in our current system but I genuinely don't believe that as a club we would buy any of them. As it stands now I would take whoever is the Louis Saha option of this window because we must sign a striker who has played in this league and scored goals as a striker
