is it because they isnt the type of player available/
or in our price range
or we aint get any money
can we get in the first two without any signings at all?
I dont thing we are that far away from being in the top 2 , but would love us to sign a top notch mid field general. I feel we may sign a loan player very very near end ofthe window and that will be it. I think the board may be feeling we will need dosh to be up there next year and are holding the purse very tightly at the mo.
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I don't see that there is any point in buying for the sake of it and unless they are good enough to go straight into the first 11, then I'd rather we didn't sign anyone. We don't need more squad players.
I would not mind if we signed that David Norris the midfielder from Plymouth someone who would add something to our squad, players Like Gray, Purse etc no thanks lets keep the money.
I see it as a bit of a game of chess at present. Some clubs have players they want to out, some simply need the money. By and large, those are the players that have moved so far. The rest is all to play for, with at present, clubs asking over the top whenever they get an enquiry for a player. This window is going to go down to the last few days more than ever.
I personally would rather us not sign anyone, than pay over the odds for someone we're not fully convinced about. Our financial position is too fragile for punts, and it would be foolish to act otherwise.
Hopefully the board have learnt that over the last 18 months.
we've got 4 fit strikers even if one is unlikely to do the business at this level
with Youga looking good and 4 fit centre backs if Sodje stays, he prob. feels he doesn't need another defender either
so it's maybe just a dominant centre-midfielder he would be looking at?
Nor will he be the answer to the need of a possible all round dominant central midfielder.
He might be the answer to the lack of predatory instinct in front of goal though.
I have huge concerns that most of our fans think he is the messiah, when at the end of the day he's a player with no real experience of this level of football. I hope he gets a couple of early goals or it won't be long before he's labelled McClown Mark II
i was there and i feel in this league, he is the answer
He has no experience, yet scored something like 11 from 13 in just the league below in a struggling team. A terrific return, and a couple of the strikes i saw were international class, particularly the volley at Crewe i think. That's pure instinct.
I'm a great believer that you can coach everything in the modern game except for a goalscoring instinct. You can coach runs, technique, angles etc, yet in the heat of a game being in the right place at the right time, and putting that ball in the net is a very rare commodity.
He has to come on leaps and bounds still, but i think he has a chance of having what it takes. I think the somewhat romance of it all has raised more attention than it deserves, but there is a very small possibility that we might well of uncovered the next Ian Wright, and until its proved otherwise, i'm happy to keep dreaming.
so we rattle him like chelsea did parker.... but it's ok for us to do it
Why not, where has the moral high ground ever got us??
so we rattle him like chelsea did parker.... but it's ok for us to do it[/quote]
It's the way of the world, if the roles were reversed Burnley would do it to us in a heartbeat and there is every chance that it will happen to us again with Reid or ZZ to a Prem side at some point.
Not nice but its dog eat dog out there.
I would prefer to reserve judgement until we see him play 90 minutes against decent opposition. And a few times at that.
But he seems to have taken many by surprise including I suspect Mr Pardew.
Wasn't it rumoured that Iwelumo's pay went from £3k to £11k by signing for us?