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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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A premier league club allowing themselves to go the best part of half a season without a recognised striker

That’s something I would expect from West Ham and the Porn barons

Not from a club that has been in the champions league for the last 4 years

You can try and defend the club all you want and yes they have finally spent some money and brought some promising players in , but this situation we find ourselves in is negligence of the highest order
 
For better or worse said:
Loans with an option to buy is the way forward. I would also pay slightly over the odds based on this sort of deal and i'll tell you why.

We've seen it time and again, players not adapting to the league, training, country or style of play. They become and massive drain on the club and everything they touch. It ends us costing a load in wages and we take a long time to move them on... If only there was a way to try before you buy???

If a player has a market value of £40m close to their peak (stick with me). Based on a four year contract and their value after this being £20m we should offer a quarter of the resale value for a season loan, in this instance £5m. At the end of the season the loan fee is deducted from the transfer fee (£35m).

For this sort of deal I feel rather then 'penny pinching' we could go in with strong bids. If a player flops then it's better to write off £5m, take it on the chin and move on. If the player succeeds £40 is a snip for a proven player. Le Celso is the case in point, I know this structure was put in place to avoid sell-on fees but it validates this strategy.

The key is for us to have an option to buy. It would also show that the selling club believe their player isn't shite
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I agree with you but the problem with any sort of loan is you right off a player rather than try to fix them. It's something that needs to be aware of, some players take a while to click. Would we have signed bale based on a loan and if he now comes good ditto aurier.
 
GDG said:
Have you thought that maybe “hoofing the balls” up to Moura and Son is the problem rather than who the striker is?

People who genuinely think bringing in one of these second rate strikers will solve our problems are deluded. We are leaky at the back, lack a settled and established MF partnership, have a no.10 who is vacant for 80% of the games we play and we’ve resorted to long ball tactics.

Getting someone in to “flick the ball on” is short-termism at its finest.
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If you think a focal point / striker is just someone you hoof it to and flicks it on then your version of football is quite tactically limited.

defensive issues are compounded when the ball goes up and it does not stick and comes straight back again, corners and set pieces harder to defend without a presence. Your midfield gets turned quick and your shape gets pulled when you have no one leading a line.

what is a “second rate” striker ? Anyone who’s not Kane or Messi ? Tottenham are one of the very few major club in Europe without a striker at the moment. That remains ridiculous. And having a Jansen is no bad thing at all.
 
We're signing fuck all today.

If we sign ANYONE...and I mean ANYONE, I will change my username to a name of ArcspacE ArcspacE 's choice.
 
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