Unfortunately bringing players in that is supposed to improve the squad has proved a poisoned challice for every club. We have been know to bring players in who turned out to be worse than what we had. We live in hope. My opinion for what it is worth is we should worry about losing players.
Yes let’s step aside from this sideshow & concentrate on the thread. The January window is a strange one & distinct to the summer one. The significance this time is City can open the purse strings. Will they? If in or around the top 6 you’d like to think Tan will sanction some spending.
We have to start adding value to players. Spend, yes, but only if we can start becoming more self financing in the transfer marker. We can't keep on signing players for £1M - £5M and selling them a year or two later for 50p, or just loaning them out. If this is the first time we spend money in a while, let's get value for money. Erol and the team did well in the summer for nothing (though I'm sure Siopis will have been recompensed for buying himself out of his contract), let's see how they can do with a few bob in a more challenging window. I'll also be delighted if they can shift a bit of dead wood.
Will be interesting to see if we get any more 'unknown' Turkish or Greek players come in. Think we're close to unanimous that Siopis has been a great signing and now Goutas has settled a bit more he's proved to be a very astute signing too. I've nothing against either of them but I'd sincerely like to see Sawyers, Campbell and sadly Rino go... Rino I was really hopeful of but it's definitely fair to say that more quality has been brought in since we signed him... If we can offload those 3, bring in another CM, a Left Back and a striker I'd be very happy.
We have done well without spending money, if we can get players for free of the same quality that might seem a good idea. Madine cost £6 million and was a known goalscorer so simply spending money can backfire. .
That's absolutely true..... If we do spend then it of course needs to be spent wisely. As has already been mentioned on here, our record on signing strikers is pretty poor.... I trust Erol to know what he wants though...
He brought in players for nowt. What’s he going be like with a cheque book? From this squad we can lose Sawyers Adams Rhinomota & Ugbo permanently at least. Don’t forget we’ve got O’ Dowda & Ramsey to return. Add a few more and who knows?
I don’t like to use the words backfire and Madine in the same sentence jck200, he was very unlucky with us! Masky
If we sign someone like that, we need to make it work. Wouldn't want it turning into another Watters.
Just four goals (3 in one game) and one assist this season. I think we are after the wrong Wimbledon striker as they have a guy called Tilley who's scored eight and has six assists. Of course, all this in league two. I think remote is right and just for the moment untested potential is not the right ploy.
And they'd probably want several million for him so potentially could be outside of our price bracket anyhow (whether he'd be worth it or not is another whole new debate). Even if we do have cash available I'd expect it to be relatively limited.
Mullin? Totally unproven above Div. 2 and not yet really done the business there. Age 28. Would be a big gamble at any price and we've had too many of them. It's a resounding no from me.
In fairness to Mullin he's only just back from a horrific injury sustained prior to the start of the season. So it's difficult to ascertain how good he'll be in League 2. However, regardless of his injury, it would still be a huge step up and I'm not sure he'd fit in anyway. In any case as already mentioned, he's in Wrexham for personal reasons and I can't see him leaving.
I am judging on the quality of his goals but as everyone says we will not get him. Must say I watched the game that won them promotion and his 2 goals were outstanding.
I've spotted some guy called Watters who has a few goals in league 1, so higher up the food chain than Mullins. Should be able to get him for about a million. Worth a try?
