Agree Osula clearly needs game time and isn’t ready for the EPL. Not sure hes going to get much more playing time in Germany though.
He's just not very good. Howe put him on in desperation vs Villa in spite of a) Harvey Barnes being his usual tepid self, and b) needing a goal - that says enough about the managers trust in him, and at 22 is he getting much better? Arsenal played a 15 year old in thrashing Leeds. Just get rid. We need two decent strikers on the books and have none. I'd rather Neave was the backup to the backup than Osula. But we seem to have no options thanks to Andy Howe.
Yes. So we may well have played 3 matches without a striker, and then another 13 or 14 on top until the "difficult" January window. I mean, for all the uselessness of Andy Howe, Steve Nickson and Darren Eales surely even these three won't get to next Tuesday without a recognised forward?
I don't think anyone is listening to Nickson anymore. The club hasn't found anything even remotely interesting.
After four consecutive windows not spending, knowing Wilson was likely to leave and subsequently 8 weeks without anyone in the role, to get Wissa would be as underwhelming as signing Ramsdale. However, it looks incredibly likely but hopefully the last debacle overseen by Nickson/A.Howe.
I think Nickson is just being ignored and will be systematically brushed out of the club. It's been clear for a while that there's one or two becoming more and more powerful while one by way any opposition is dealt with accordingly.Nickson is next I think.
Here's a list of potentially available strikers: Openda, Samu, Jackson, Kean, Ramos, Torres, Castro, Hojlund, Vlahovic, Nkunku, Pavlidis, Kolo Muani, Gimenez, Woltemade, Gouiri, Esposito, Brobbey, Emegha, Wahi.
Probably. Will be interesting to see if Andy Howe survives when the new exec team are in place, would say a lot about where the nepo-problems lie.
Ooooh, interesting. Just read a completely different take on the Isak situation - might be mental, made up, but in a nutshell the Isak saga is absolutely nothing to do with a transfer and everything to do with the ownership groups on both sides. PIF basically pissed off FSG, because they scrapped investment talks with RedBall who then couldn't invest at the same level alongside FSG, so in retaliation FSG have unsettled Isak through the greed of his agency. We did want Ekitike, and then Sesko, but both red powerhouses deliberately outmuscled and outmanoeuvred Newcastle to keep Isak twitching. @Hung Drawn and Quartered said something really interesting about Isak being on his own at the request of Eddie, not in protest, which marries up with this story where Isak's fine but to avoid all the noise he's being kept away until after the window shuts, when he'll immediately reintegrate and play for Newcastle again.
