Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[richrunner]

I'd say if we don't have a new striker in by the Watford home game we may as well just pack up and go home.

[UK Redsox]

As much fun as the false 9 experiment has been, I’d really like us to get a striker. Preferably two, just in case.

Then we only have to worry about the defence who can't defend ( or run and cross in Taylors case) and the MF who can't tackle ( 4 between them today )

We've won two league games very recently with Luiz and Nakamba starting both.

I accept the points but we can win those type of games despite them. However I can't see us winning many games at all if good old false 9 is leading the line so that remains the critical and make or break position.

Most teams get relegated because they can't score many goals. After 15/16 we should've learnt this. We've actually scored more than I thought we would from our early weeks but still in bottom 3 with more than half the season gone so it still remains a massive issue.

AEG didn’t really play as a False 9 today, he played as an actual 9. However, he isn’t a 9.

False 9 to me suggests a fluid formation with various players cropping up where the centre forward would normally be. Villa didn’t do that today.

[SoccerHQ]

As much fun as the false 9 experiment has been, I’d really like us to get a striker. Preferably two, just in case.

Then we only have to worry about the defence who can't defend ( or run and cross in Taylors case) and the MF who can't tackle ( 4 between them today )

We've won two league games very recently with Luiz and Nakamba starting both.

I accept the points but we can win those type of games despite them. However I can't see us winning many games at all if good old false 9 is leading the line so that remains the critical and make or break position.

Most teams get relegated because they can't score many goals. After 15/16 we should've learnt this. We've actually scored more than I thought we would from our early weeks but still in bottom 3 with more than half the season gone so it still remains a massive issue.

AEG didn’t really play as a False 9 today, he played as an actual 9. However, he isn’t a 9.

False 9 to me suggests a fluid formation with various players cropping up where the centre forward would normally be. Villa didn’t do that today.

I could only stomach watching the first half today but AEG was drifting out wide still, indeed it was him and Grealish as our two most advanced players.

I've actually long said AEG should be tried in games Jack is out but as a number 10 behind a main striker.

Ultimately I can't see us staying up like that. It could be a good plan B option in Burnley type games though.

[aj2k77]

I tell you what, french second division players, championship strikers, they can fuck off, bunch of clowns.

[aj2k77]

I guarentee the Striker will be Benteke,another player who has done fuck all the past few years and is currently injured. Pitarch and Smith will be gone in the summer.

[AlexAlexCropley]

I guarentee the Striker will be Benteke,another player who has done fuck all the past few years and is currently injured. Pitarch and Smith will be gone in the summer.

Won't be Benteke. Someone in the smoking area who knows R O'K told me.

[brontebilly]

We are desperate hence

Albrighton (grafter, good cross on him, if the worst happened would be fine in second div...), Benteke is a gamble worth taking and gettable (loan to buy), Zinchenko on loan, I'm sick of looking at those two clowns (LB/LW/LWB), Paddy McNair (CD/CM) can play in defence or midfield,  Rondon did the business for Newcastle last year fighting relegation.

Cull - Lansbury, Kodjia, Taylor

[CT]

I'd rather have Benteke on one leg than what I saw "up front" for us today. 

[Small Rodent]

Throw money for Piatek and give him a ridiculous buy out clause in the case of relegation.

Then chuck money at Hull for Grosicki to get the ball in to him.

Polish are fighters.

[PaulWinch again]

Get a fuckng move on Villa.

[cdbearsfan]

I have inside knowledge. Our new striker acquisition  will be...

Spoiler for Hiden:

Underwhelming.

[aj2k77]

It will be another week of fucking around before something panicky.

[Steve67]

It will be another week of fucking around before something panicky.

And then it will be Glen Murray!!

[aj2k77]

We either mean business or we don't. We are currently playing around, old blokes, bloke who doesn't play anymore etc etc. If we are serious about staying up we can't fuck around with the forward line, it needs fixing and it needs fixing before this run of 3 games.

[Villan82]

Throw money for Piatek and give him a ridiculous buy out clause in the case of relegation.

Then chuck money at Hull for Grosicki to get the ball in to him.

Polish are fighters.

When we got gazillionaire owners this was what I was expecting - not punt after punt and continued rumours about our good players leaving!

Has Purslow said anything lately? He was saying plenty after the playoffs!!

Pull the finger out.