**** me you'd have thought Wolves would have learnt there lesson with our strikers. ALF, Mason and now Lambert..... they must be ****ing mental.
Lawrence looked good in sporadic patches for us last season. Clearly has talent and as shown recently an eye for goal but would he consistently improve our team? City need someone in central midfield with strength, pace and ability to score but IMO most importantly the ability to create, pass forward accurately and not sideways or backwards plus dribble towards the opposition box. In the mould of Mutch. Whitts and Ralls are dispensable and vulnerable to being replaced next season by someone with ALL these qualities.
Give me a million and Choo's job I'll find this miraculous player that can drive at the heart of oppositions defences in the same way that Gary O'Neil did during our 4-1 win against the Spammers all of those years ago! He'll have the passing ability of Whitts, the drive of Mutch, the speed of Harris, the feet of Burke.... ... Who am I kidding. In my 13 years of watching City I don't think I've ever experienced a truly pacy side!
Basically! And even then we only had him for half a season on loan! (Or was it a full one?) Either way too short!
I found this old post online: The Welsh midfielder is out of favour at the Hawthorn's and is being linked with a seasons long loan at Ninian Park. Several Premiership clubs have been alerted to the availability of Koumas who would cost them £1.5m to buy but none have yet considered signing him permanently. Birmingham City's Darren Purse is also linked. http://www.cardiffcity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/dave_jones_looking_at_koumas_loan_deal_228458/index.shtml
Like it Jay-Rede Seriously though given the last time a striker scored for City was 5 games ago (Brentford) this demonstrates the urgency for either Lambert to up his game or if someone takes him on a free transfer, to be replaced as we cannot rely on Zahore, Fred & Healey alone to score enough goals to snare the necessary points to guarantee survival. The odd pot shot from distance, penalty or set piece goal will not suffice given the lack of clean sheets and stern tests coming our way in the next few months.
When did we last have someone who was capable of scoring 15/20 per season? Going back to the days of Chops, Ross, Bothroyd and Whitts one off season I guess. KWJ got 13 in 2014/15 but the likes of Miller, Helguson etc couldn't reach double figures when we had a much better side. Thankfully lost of others chipped in with sixes and sevens then. Our best scorers this season are Pilks with 7 and Whitts with 5.
Don't think we can afford his wages. I'd like to see Zahore & Healey play together for 5 or 6 games see if they can forge a partnership.
Desperately need an attacking central midfielder & goalscorer. Healey did ok today but Zahore again total garbage. Gunner & Ralls run around a lot but do nothing positively. Harris did well again but Hoillet was dusappointing yet again. City are far from safe. Deserved a lot more than 2 narrow defeats this week.
I wish we'd stop pissing about with these 2nd rate players. We've got as good as them in the squad right now. I don't see the point in bringing wingers at their level when we've got Pilkington, Hoilett, Harris, Kennedy and Noone already here. If we're going to do something positive we need much better not more of the same. In the same way, what was the point in bringing journeyman Halford here as back up for the defence and then letting Semi Ajayi go out on loan - the guy could have been given a chance. We've got Halford from Rotherham and they've had Ajayi from us - bloody ludicrous decision.
If we wanted Feeney we should have signed him 4 years ago. Now 30 and the top of the hill is much closer. Hayes looks a much better potential signing although his form has been in Scotland only and I can't see us going above £600k for him. If either were to sign I wouldn't be surprised to see Noonie going out pretty sharply as he has dropped right down the list of our wingers with Harris, Kennedy and Hoilett ranking above him at the moment. Agreed regarding Halford/Ajayi. I guess the reasoning is that Colin knows Halford and Halford knows the division, although he's certainly not playing at that level yet. While Ajayi has been with us nearly 2 years, he hasn't played a league game so must be regarded as an unknown quantity. Game time at Rotherham will determine his future one way or the other.
