The January 2024 "Will we actually sign a striker or just Che Adams/Kieffer Moore" Transfer Thread

[Quirkafleeg]

Chirewa is more a wide forward than a proper striker though isn't he?

(With zero pace)

So are all the options we have already, Neto, Hwang, Bellegarde and Cunha is an inside forward a cliche number 8 and a half or what numbers are used for that area.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

So are all the options we have already, Neto, Hwang, Bellegarde and Cunha is an inside forward a cliche number 8 and a half or what numbers are used for that area.

I agree, but Fraser is a "proper" no.9

 

[Kenny]

I agree, but Fraser is a "proper" no.9

Yep. We have let 2 go from that position, regardless of how good they actually are in our opinions. Have chased Ings, Adams & Broja.
They want/need a #9 but likelihood is our own kid is going to be that option as a back up. Have to trust him. Pointless him sitting there doing a Fabio Silva impression each week and getting 0 mins

 

[Quirkafleeg]

I agree, but Fraser is a "proper" no.9

So will he get the proper minutes he needs as the others we have are wide forwards.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Yep. We have left 2 go from that position, regardless of how good they actually are in our opinions. Have chased Ings, Adams & Broja.
They want/need a #9 but likelihood is our own kid is going to be that option as a back up. Have to trust him. Pointless him sitting there doing a Fabio Silva impression each week and getting 0 mins

I don't get sending Fabio and Sasa on loan and then trying to get in others that don't do the press he wants to play.

 

[Lycan]

Gazza seems to think Bellegarde can play a similar role to Hwang. Not sure I agree but I imagine that's who will play if Hwang & Sarabia are unavailable.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I don't get sending Fabio and Sasa on loan and then trying to get in others that don't do the press he wants to play.

Nope, it's stupid.

I can only imagine he was promised we'd get someone in.

Maybe just maybe it might have been a better idea to wait until we had clinched the incoming forward before letting Sasa go

 

[Kenny]

I don't get sending Fabio and Sasa on loan and then trying to get in others that don't do the press he wants to play.

Presume because he wants a different option to fall on for some games.

 

[Kenny]

Maybe just maybe it might have been a better idea to wait until we had clinched the incoming forward before letting Sasa go

Agree but he wasn't giving him much game time so clearly not a fan. I think if he was here now he still would have started Bellegarde in the false 9 position rather than starting Sasa.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Sasa came on in injury time vs Forest and then went 5 straight games as an unused sub.

Gaz just doesn't pick players he doesn't rate or who don't fit.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Sasa came on in injury time vs Forest and then went 5 straight games as an unused sub.

Gaz just doesn't pick players he doesn't rate or who don't fit.

Yeah, because we had better available options.

If in the future months that isn't the case, we don't have that option now, we just have to flog the current players and hope they don't lose form, get injured or suspended.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We didn't have better available options, we just used no-one.

Who was coming on in December that isn't coming on now?

 

[Del Woppio]

I fully back Gaz not picking players that don't fit what he wants. I absolutely resent the club in not being willing/able to find him options and making him choose between players who don't work, or running his starting eleven into the ground

 

[Alan]

Works both ways, ay? If we stay healthy (big if, granted), then we’ve blown money on a player who gained us nothing but a barrier to Fraser’s development and who, by design, has no future here.

I don’t particularly want a player like that.

 

[Tony Towner]

Yeah, because we had better available options.

If in the future months that isn't the case, we don't have that option now, we just have to flog the current players and hope they don't lose form, get injured or suspended.

...and in all likelihood stunt Fraser's development in the process

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

We didn't have better available options, we just used no-one.

Who was coming on in December that isn't coming on now?

We did the same with Fabio before Raul fractured his skull...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We did the same with Fabio before Raul fractured his skull...

Apples, oranges, etc.

You could just say you were wrong

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Works both ways, ay? If we stay healthy (big if, granted), then we’ve blown money on a player who gained us nothing but a barrier to Fraser’s development and who, by design, has no future here.

I don’t particularly want a player like that.

The barrier to Fraser's development is him not going out on loan. Signing a back up forward would enable that.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Apples, oranges, etc.

You could just say you were wrong

Eh?

It's an opinion?

Before Raul got injured Fabio was getting the odd minute but was on the bench, as soon as Raul got injured Fabio was starting, this is a very likely outcome with Fraser if Cunha and/or Hwang get injured.

 

[Alan]

The barrier to Fraser's development is him not going out on loan. Signing a back up forward would enable that.

I’d argue that Gary has already shown he prefers Fraser to a Bundesliga vet in Saša.

A loan is beyond Nathan at this stage. He seems ready to contribute, IMO.