Niels Nkounkou Left back

[ninian opinian]

Signing on loan from Everton.

https://twitter.com/glenwilliams12/status/1562881312272584709?s=21&t=75GPJcFkR3q1KWxFcPn-9Q

https://twitter.com/paddy_boyland/status/1562865567186399233?s=21&t=75GPJcFkR3q1KWxFcPn-9Q

[ToTaL ITK]

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:thumbup:

[Ninja]

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:thumbup:

Love how he's doffing his hat to the recruitment team.
Is this the same recruitment team that won't invest in a single decent forward?

[dml1954]

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Love how he's doffing his hat to the recruitment team.
Is this the same recruitment team that won't invest in a single decent forward?

So what do you think they should do then - go out the back and rustle one up from the magic striker tree !! Get real.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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So what do you think they should do then - go out the back and rustle one up from the magic striker tree !! Get real.

So why haven't we been able to recruit a striker?

[Ninja]

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So what do you think they should do then - go out the back and rustle one up from the magic striker tree !! Get real.

Oh ok, I'll tell you what we'll do... Sign more left-backs, more midfielders, and play a false 9 with Watters or Harris.
That's going to get us 40-50 goals between them two surely?!
:hehe:

[Rjk]

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So why haven't we been able to recruit a striker?

there aren't that many around who are available, in our price range and capable of doing a job at this level.
plus there are at least half a dozen other championship sides who are also urgently looking for a striker at the moment.

[Ninja]

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there aren't that many around who are available, in our price range and capable of doing a job at this level.
plus there are at least half a dozen other championship sides who are also urgently looking for a striker at the moment.

We're clearly not prepared to pay any money and that's a huge problem within itself.
Do you know what's an even bigger problem though, and worries me even more?
We need TWO!

[Rjk]

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We're clearly not prepared to pay any money and that's a huge problem within itself.
Do you know what's an even bigger problem though, and worries me even more?
We need TWO!

Isaac Davies will come good, wait and see

[Ninja]

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Isaac Davies will come good, wait and see

As a ball-holding number 9?
I think that's highly doubtful, but even if he does, where's the other one coming from?

[NYCBlue]

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I only found out today that Jamilu Collins is out for the season. Everything has gone through him and (much to my surprise) O'Dowda so far. So this signing is huge.

[Rjk]

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As a ball-holding number 9?
I think that's highly doubtful, but even if he does, where's the other one coming from?

a loan presumably

[Ninja]

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a loan presumably

Davies isn't a traditional centre-fiorward, yet we literally need two of them if we're to continue with this 4-3-3 that Morrison seems adamant with persisting with.
We have plenty of strikers (Davies included) that could definitely play in a 4-4-2, yet we're not going to play that formation, clearly.
Morrison seems adamant that he's going 4-3-3.
We'd need at least a minimum of 2 Hugill's to pull that off, possibly 3 if injury hits.
Centre-forwards that can out-muscle players, use their physicality, head the ball, bring others into play etc etc.
We don't currently have one player like that.
The minimum requirement would be 2.
I'd want a 3rd as cover but we're not even getting 1.
The club clearly don't wish to release funds for even 1 player in that mould.
Either Morrison changes the system and runs with a 4-4-2, which would be a struggle with what we have, or we resign ourselves to a struggle anyway which is how I see it going.

If we're not prepared to take a financial risk at this point and support Morrison, then we may as well revert back to hoof-ball which is what I see happening.
Come Christmas, we'll have Pulis in charge or someone similar.

[Mr Soul '68]

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So what do you think they should do then - go out the back and rustle one up from the magic striker tree !! Get real.

Surely there must have been a decent striker from one of the three clubs relegated from this division last season worth taking a punt on?

Or how about one of the teams that made the play-offs in the division below us, but didn't get promoted? Maybe one of those clubs have a young hungry for goals striker who would love to make the step up.

Or how about a young hungry striker who got promoted to League One at the end of last season and who would love a crack at the Championship?

Were there any? I don't follow football apart from The City, but if Morison looked hard enough I am sure there are at least a couple of strikers that pre-season were worth taking a punt on!

[PontBlue]

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Surely there must have been a decent striker from one of the three clubs relegated from this division last season worth taking a punt on?

Or how about one of the teams that made the play-offs in the division below us, but didn't get promoted? Maybe one of those clubs have a young hungry for goals striker who would love to make the step up.

Or how about a young hungry striker who got promoted to League One at the end of last season and who would love a crack at the Championship?

Were there any? I don't follow football apart from The City, but if Morison looked hard enough I am sure there are at least a couple of strikers that pre-season were worth taking a punt on!

Jonson Clarke-Harris looked decent last season in a struggling Posh side but without money to spend it'll never happen. We could also offer Watters as a part exchange or Etete on loan.