Would quite like Barihino from West Brom, him and Kane would give us good options, I still would like us to get a fast winger with an end product, not sure who we could get.
I just think our sqaud is full of players who are very similar or have flaws I mean we could loose Dembele, Paulinho, Lennon, Townsend and as a team we wouldn't be much worse at all but a good fast striker and a winger or AM with some speed and end product would do us the world of good.
IMO we need three things: Any signing has to have speed, power and leadership qualities. Barihino is in form, but we have a young team, and we also have Yedlin coming in who is about as fast as it gets but also young.
IMO what we need is going to be VERY expensive. And most of it on wages. We need pace, power and leadership. Leadership usually means little sell on value (older), and it's hard to find late 20's players in that skill bracket that have affordable wages and will come to us. The last time we moved up a level from lower mid table was when someone of Davids stature came in but he was creaking a little.
The only drawback in our team is overall pace and leadership. Once we have that sorted, and we have mentors in place for the Yedlins, Eriksens, Lamelas, Walkers, Lamela etc we will be almost impossible to beat IMO.
The last thing we need IMO is a Kono etc. Someone who has/had good stats that year, is young and on the cusp is the last thing we need. One month of hearing fans piss at him over a missed pass can fuck up anyones game. We need someone who is not scared of the crowd, our manager and players. VDV did not give a flying fuck if he missed a pass, because he would try the harder passes to get through the parked bus unlike Modric, Dembele etc who would rack up AMAZING passing stats with us but our strikers would have barren runs.
And the huge pain in the arse: We need fucking two of them! haha Baldini has an impossible task in front of him IMO. Sometimes it pays to have a Jurgen as manager because he can tap up the old boys brigade for top talents. Perhaps Poch needs to send out an SOS to the hard hitters of Argentina to turn us around?
I don't think signing whatever youngster is in form is the thing to do. We've ruined enough of them.