The centre-forward market...
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My money is on no one or a very underwhelming loan late in the window. The briefs are the exact opposite of positive sadly.
Hope to be very wrong!
Hope to be very wrong!
This would be shrewd business from us, only costs around 8m or so. Second topscorer in the BuLi if I'm not mistaken. These are the type of deals I love to see. The risk-reward is so good here. Can't believe they aren't moving quickly here.
Alberto Alves Coelho, known as Betinho, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for S.C. Espinho as a striker.
He's 29, playing in the Portuguese 4th division. Could be him
.Expectations: Osimhen.
Reality: Okafor, Balogun, Adamu, Pepi, etc
Reality: Okafor, Balogun, Adamu, Pepi, etc
Goncalo Ramos. I don't know if we can afford him, especially when the Glazers are considering a sale, but surely we should go all out for this lad. He looks like Kun Aguero to me.
Not saying that he will be that good, or have that impact, but he looks similar quality.
Great. Another stop gap signing
I'd take Paul Onaucho from Genk as a squad option while we try sort a top level CF.
He is 28, should be cheap, an absolute tower and good in the air, good finisher and can get you 20 goals a season. He would surely welcome the pay rise.
He is 28, should be cheap, an absolute tower and good in the air, good finisher and can get you 20 goals a season. He would surely welcome the pay rise.
Yeah no truer word
Loan better than nothing at all even if it isn't that star name. Maybe that player could at least contribute something.
Won't happen in a million years but
Vlahovic in January
Osimhen/Kane in summer
Which do you choose?
Vlahovic in January
Osimhen/Kane in summer
Which do you choose?
Schick ?
Agreed. Would give us options when everyone is fit, and provide cover if anyone were to get injured. It's a must for me if we want to give ourselves a better chance of a top 4 finish.
Are there any strikers available for loan and no don't count Felix as he's more of a flexible attacker
Jamie Jackson at Guardian also reporting we don't like the loan fee of 8M.
This is why I have recently been a bit hard and critical of our summer business and our conduct recently even after our backroom rejig going on.
Wandered into misappropriating £230m over the odds on everyone we bought and now scrounging for a few bob maybe fallen down the cracks of the sofa to make any helpful Jan moves.
I know some aren't keen on Felix and theres conflicting reports about whether theres an obligation/option to buy tacked on, but I'm not sold on the other potential options like perhaps Depay is the only other realistically plausible loan. Unless this Betinho lad turns out to be true and a scouting department masterclass, feel like we are already handicapping ETH a bit here with our bumbling summer and now tight-wad Jan. Really cranks up the pressure to pull of some clutch value for money signings in summer which might be difficult with our previous track record.
Champs League would be nice to accelerate our plan scheduele and maybe get some better calibre of players, but can't see us finishing top 4 with our current squad depth and our main rivals making additions now to secure their spots. I am at peace with that though, would probably prefer to spend £40-80mish on a longer term striker of some profile and the rest of budget elsewhere.
Giroud, bring the old handsome b*stard to the club !
I don't think he would be expensive
Yeah better than nothing
Well who knows? This is where you would hope our scouting department comes to the fore.
While Felix may not be the profile we were hoping for I would certainly take signing him over signing no-one.
He would give us far more options in advanced areas than we have at present.
Yeah be delighted with him but still doesn't seem even remotely realistic. Then you have negative nancy journos like Jackson saying scared off by loan fee.
Vlahovic in January easily as we need someone now, even if it’s just a loan. We are currently so short on options up top.
What loan options are out there?
Fake I reckon
Morata ? As a six month stop gap?
We need a loan deal without doubt
Thats a official PL website right? Showing betinho (29) journeyman striker as a Utd player?!?
Fake as those imposters in 2013
No idea, which is a sad admission.
No 9s eh... everybody wants to play 'false' nine, off the wide areas.
Benzama, Haaland, Lewandoski, CR7... they just want to score goals. Nothing else.
I think that responsibility doesn't suit the vast majority of this current generation of neither coach nor players. That's just my personal opinion.
No 9s eh... everybody wants to play 'false' nine, off the wide areas.
Benzama, Haaland, Lewandoski, CR7... they just want to score goals. Nothing else.
I think that responsibility doesn't suit the vast majority of this current generation of neither coach nor players. That's just my personal opinion.
Felix is the name getting brandished about but I was just answering your earlier would you rather question.
Meant actual strikers
We don't want loan fees...
We don't want permanent deals....
Bottom line is Glazers don't want to spend a penny and it's odd that there's no concrete links to them even selling the club yet.
If our owners weren't cockroaches I'd want Ohsimen, Schick or another CF that the scouts have identified as better than them. Mobile, fast, strong, aerial ability and good enough technically to bring others into the game.
We don't want permanent deals....
Bottom line is Glazers don't want to spend a penny and it's odd that there's no concrete links to them even selling the club yet.
If our owners weren't cockroaches I'd want Ohsimen, Schick or another CF that the scouts have identified as better than them. Mobile, fast, strong, aerial ability and good enough technically to bring others into the game.
If rumours are true that we are balking at the loan fee for Felix then things are dire. We are saving double the reported fee for Felix on Ronaldos wages. We badly need to tackle the elephant in the room of players who are not getting game time but collecting the paycheck. Offload players like Van De Beek, Williams, Jones, Maguire, Elanga and Wan Bassaka to fund some new additions.
The perfect time to sign a very talented player
2 mins in Ten Hag is asked about a striker signing in January. Looks like we're back to the drawing board based on his answer of "We were looking for one but the market is not easy".
In other words our owners don’t want to spend any hard -looted cash…
After the enormous outlay in the summer, it’s really not a great argument to be bringing up the owners this time.
Far better to say the club being up for sale might limit funds to spend until the ownership is decided.
Far better to say the club being up for sale might limit funds to spend until the ownership is decided.
We should probably have a separate thread for the dregs of the striker market, Watford castoffs etc
Didn't stop Liverpool spending despite being in the same position.
Out of all the players in the Premier League, Martial has the second best goals to minutes ratio for any player who has scored 3+ goals. Unfortunately, he has only scored 5 in total, and Haaland is the player ahead of him. The biggest problem is the amount of minutes he has missed, and I actually think stylistically, Moukoko may be his perfect understudy.