eanN17 said it well, but finding an instantly successful addition at striker is a very tall ask. The available choices were very limited, in particular the number who can do the non-goal scoring stuff that we need a striker to do as well.
Summer, with the longer time period and more open contracts allows for us to find someone, but a January window with a dead market is not going to allow you to find solutions quickly.
I don't like our striker situation, but it is what it is, and wasn't able to be fixed in January for very understandable reasons. We'll see what happens in the summer, when things are more in our favour.
Doing everything we can, and actually finding something that works are not the same things. It wasn't a case of throwing money at the problem, it was a case of finding the right people. Saying "I'm sure there was someone in the Championship" is not the same thing as going looking and actually finding that person. And then getting their club to sell them to you.
Well then lets see in the summer, we should have sorted this out last summer. In terms of finding a guy thats why we have scouts, thats not mine or your job, other teams seem quite able to indetify and bring in half decent strikers and many of them far smaller than us. I know whats done is done I just hope we learn from this situation and never put ourselves in such a position again.
