Here is a thought! Maybe the board are stringing Sunderland along in the hope they get Ayew - when we have no motivation to sell. Distracts Sunderland slightly from other targets and hampers their January recruitment. Very concerning at our lack of incoming movement on the striker front though. Its clearly crucial we get someone in to improve our prospects.
Guido has asked Huwgo to up the ante for striker Alberto Paloshi from Cheivo . We bid for him Prior to Guido coming in apparently .
5 read that earlier, I just don't know, not a bad scoring record 1 in 3, but so did Gomiss, I am almost at the stage now that I don't care who it is as long as it is someone.
Chelsea have told Newcastle , Palace and Leicester that Remy can be had for 12 million .Leicster has offered 8 million . Seems reasonable and maybe be should do an end around on all teams and buy him outright for the asking 12 million .A lot would depend on anything Remy and his agent might want to tamper with the contract though but Remy would be a good answer to our problems imo
Do you think Jenkins will spend that sort of money, Would like Remy, cant see us spending that sort of money unfortunately.
If we are to buy a striker in the January window , in our precarious position , we'll have to pay more for less.....it's the nature of the late window.......tick tock .It would kill me as a basic rule to overspend in this window but we need someone up front and get Ayew back to his old position .....if he's staying .
We needed to do what other clubs in our position did and get in there on day one with bids instead of leaving things to the last minute when the best have been snapped up and we are left with not much to choose from. A premiership out of favour striker is far better than going and risking on a foreign striker that will need time to even see if he can play premiership football.
Some people are oversimplifying the acquisition of good players. When the window opened we were in 17th place and skint (as we had spent so much money backing that arsehole Monk....trying to make it appear that he could attract top quality players, over paying). We were also without a manager.
I am not disagreeing with you, but how come Sunderland and Newcastle have managed it, along with Norwich, not sure if Villa have done any business. I just worry with our board there may be a lack of will or just a make do attitude.
Newcastle are a big club with a wealthy backer who is gambling to try and stay in the Prem. He is over paying as far as I can see. Norwich came up with a smaller wage budget from the Championship and are now spending next year's parachute payment on trying to avoid the drop....Bournemouth are doing the same. They also have wealthy backers though (as do Bournemouth). Villa haven't signed anyone, more likely to offload and prepare for the Championship. They have a disinterested owner. Sunderland have brought in 2 players for about £1.7m. 1 of which (the German defender) I think will be a good signing....these signings were easy as the German was coming to the end of his contract and sick of being sent out on loan and the striker was making a step up from the Turkish league......not the same as trying to land a Premier League quality striker. Indeed Sunderland are trying to do the same with the capture of Ayew and, let's face it, they will fail on this one. Bournemouth have spent £16m on signing 2 Championship proven strikers. The boy from Wolves and the re-signing of Grabban who wasn't getting any games for Norwich. If we had done something like that say £10m on Jordan Rhodes and £6m on Borini/Graham. Chuck another £1m towards an expensive loan, plus high wages....would you have been satisfied? They are all gambling. None of them have signed top quality. If we did that and went down it would be a disaster and we would all be screaming blue bloody murder. Of course this is just my opinion and whether it is an accurate summation or not will come out in the wash. Handy pictogram; http://www.cityam.com/233179/januar...gnings-all-the-done-deals-and-business-so-far
We can look for reason why sides are signing and why we are not, I just see it as the board aren't prepared to pay the money and unless we find basement bargains we wont sign anything and the board are hoping what we have will be enough to keep us up. We needed a striker, but I honestly believe the board will sign if someone cheap becomes available but are simply not prepared to invest in the squad. No I wouldn't have been satisfied with Rhodes or Borini, I would of with Afobe or Austin. I am not saying we sign for sign sake, but lets make a bit of an effort as there were players out there available better than what we had but others have taken them. Lets just hope that our complete lack of action in the transfer market doesn't cost us our PL status.
Apparently we've agreed on just over 6 million pounds with Chivo for Paloshi .Personal terms must be agreed to now it seems
