Pizy

I’d be stunned if we bought anyone now. But anyone we do bring in is probably going to make us all say “why the fuck did we do that?!” and not in the good way. I’m already imagining us bringing in some random midfielder that’s nowhere near Chelsea quality when we have better options out on loan on our books already.

With Ferguson now off the table (which is a good thing) there’s really not anyone left that’s viable for us to get as a #9 in these last couple of days. Our board has actually witnessed Jackson go goalless for like 10 straight matches and miss 100 cha cues and decided not to do anything. That is unbelievable.

Shhhh. Don’t counter me with facts. Let’s just get it done. 🤣

We should bring N’golo back on a short term deal. He’s not even 34 and as we saw this past summer for France he’s still a machine. If we used him sparingly and not as an every match player we could easily get a good couple of seasons out of him.

No Felix there then.

Ferguson feels like Lavia or Wes Fofana all over again where we’d be seeing him out injured more than on the pitch. We’ve left it so incredibly late though that there’s surely not a chance in hell any of those other strikers are available because they wouldn’t be able to be replaced. Gyokeres has a release clause that would in theory make him the easiest to sign but could we actually convince him to come here right now midseason? He’ll likely have his pick of a handful of top clubs in the summer and the UCL scenarios will be set then. Ipswich selling Delap with a day or two left seems impossible and Sesko, much like Gyokeres, will have lots of top teams after him in the summer so would probably want to wait.

Good. Not needed at all.

They’re having the kind of surgical window we had a few years ago where we brought in Fabregas and Costa and others. For whatever reason, all of us supporters can see our glaring holes and our club turns a blind eye to it and refuses to move. Even with the massive prize of UCL football and the revenue that comes with it at stake they don’t act.

City after yet ANOTHER big money January signing now. A serious club who instantly identified their glaring holes and AGGRESSIVELY addressing them. We meanwhile…. 🙄🙄🙄

Why any club (especially a big PL one) would accept a 19 year old, raw kid on loan for 6 months just to basically help him develop for a return to Bayern is silly. And that seems to be what Tel himself favors. He wants to make it at Bayern so a short term loan where he plays a bunch of minutes and then returns is alluring. So I pray we won’t be the dumbass club who agrees to that. I already don’t fancy him at all on a permanent transfer. But if we try for a loan I’m going to be pissed. Thankfully there’s no talk of that. Yet…

One of the weirdest recent transfer “saga’s.” All of the top reporters saying he was almost certain to leave because United are skint and desperately need money. Then ever since that brief to all of them the rumors just died. United are just about to spend 40m on a LB so I guess they were wrong about them being broke as well. Hopefully there’s a bit of common sense from this board after all and they won’t pay silly money for this average player.

If you listed the players we’ve been linked to this summer it looks like a wishlist for a club like Everton or West Ham.

I called us going for Ferguson here a week ago. It would be the most stereotypical Clearlake signing ever so it was obvious that if he was available we’d go for him. Tbf, when he was fit last season he looked like one hell of a striker prospect. But hasn’t he sort of fallen off the map post injury? I haven’t kept up with him all season. But Brighton are a club that is always super difficult to deal with so if they’re willing to let go of such a young talent that should be a red flag, no?

I’m actually surprised the Saudi’s have never come after Felix. Big name, talented enough to go to that pathetic league and probably score a bunch. He very marketable. And I suspect that having bounced around nonstop he himself would probably take the chance to essentially retire and earn 600k per week or something.

Literally couldn’t care less about Tel even if Spuds get him. And from his perspective Spuds makes perfect sense because they’re not only in the mud currently, they’re 6 feet below the mud and devastated by injury. So he walks straight into their team and plays every single game. Here he wouldn’t. I’ll be delighted if we avoid wasting 60m on him.

I disagree 🤷‍♂️ Don’t think he starts over Sancho who I think has been okay for us.

The way a huge number of clubs are apparently queueing up trying to snatch Tel you’d think he’s Florian Wirtz and is the most promising AM Prost left out there. I just don’t see it. He doesn’t look special at all to me on YT where anyone can be made to look awesome. He looks like yet another raw attacker who doesn’t have a natural position. I feel like if he came here he’d be in the exact situation that Nkunku & Felix are currently in. He’d come on for a few minutes here and there, fail to impress in that limited time, and then rot on the bench.

🤢🤢🤢 Just what we need, the English Nico Jackson who will run and look pretty good until it comes to actually burying chances. Wouldn’t put it past our jokers in charge, though, you’re right.

Is there not some other under the radar striker tearing it up in some other league in a similar way that Marmoush was before City bought him?

Really is the only reason I can think of. Neither is at the age where they could be flipped later for more than we paid for them if they don’t work out.

With both Osimhen & Gyokeres having set release clauses I really wonder what is preventing us from triggering either of them. Players have told us they aren’t interested? Both clauses are well below the £100m mark that any super elite striker like say Isak would cost. So why the hell don’t we try?

Tells you everything about the character of Duran that he’s jumping at the chance to go to Saudi at his age despite being coveted by a bunch of the very biggest European clubs. I asked yesterday before the Saudi stuff popped up whether he was actually what we need. Now seeing this I’m even more glad we didn’t spend stupid money on him.

Kind of crazy how silent it is with just 2 days left in the window. What we do or don’t do this week can really decide our season. If we don’t bring in a goal scorer then it will be made 100% clear to us that the board/sporting directors aren’t bothered about reaching the UCL places this season.

Every report that comes out about Tel PLUS the fact that I don’t think he’s got a place in our team makes me really hope we don’t push for him. Avoid at all costs.

I suspected when we first recalled him that we just wanted to give him a head start training with the first team for 6 months before being ready to contribute here next season.