Or a meat shield as Venkys like to call them.

At the moment I'd say it's 50/50. He signed the bloke that hopefully scores the goals to keep us up this season. On the other hand Wahlstedt was a massive mistake and is a big reason for our decline. I can't blame him for the striker situation as he wanted to aim higher but his hands were tied by wankys.

He gets plenty of blame on here and social media. Making him the scapegoat for all of our recruitment errors isn't helpful.

Anyone recommending Cooper automatically revokes their rights to criticising Broughton, or moan that we have a leaky defence on a match day.

Broughton isn't perfect, but it's stuff like this that excuses the owners.

Leeds fans call him a donkey.

Injured, Travis is on loan. We're already stretched.

I think Palace want to play him.

Wahlstedt is his major mistake. However the three strikers were all brought in for nothing. He wanted better strikers then Enny and Telly in the Summer but wasn't given the money.

So who are we replacing him with?

Selling a player for £22m whilst trying to sign an untested striker from MLS and an old bloke from Leeds is fucking bonkers.

From what I've seen, Sigurdsson most definitely is not a winger, and Hedges is too slow. We need some pace.

And now that money will keep the club going for 12 months.

He'll be set for life so I'm happy for the lad, but on the other hand I have mixed feelings as I know for a fact he didn't want to go and wanted to get promoted with Rovers. It's such a shame a bigger club didn't come in for him.

I'm not sure about Siggy, he's our second top scorer. What we need to do is stop playing him wide. In an ideal world he'd be an ideal sub for when Sammie tires.

As a bonus the Palace lad is rated as a good young winger and we need some pace out wide. Looks like Southampton want him though.

I agree.

Iirc, before Wahlstedt started playing, our goal difference wasn't too bad. It's a shame Pears was injured forcing us to persevere.

A bit extra is what counts sometimes. As we saw with last seasons league table.

Sell Carter, Szmodics and JRC.

Didn't someone say we were looking to sign two, to replace Gallagher (if he goes) and Ennis (who will be sent on loan)?

He scored 15 goals in his last season for Blackpool, which was a poor team and got relegated. As a Rovers player Gallagher has managed a maximum of 9, once. He's not having a great season according to Swansea fans, yet he's their top goalscorer with 7 so far. Some of them say he doesn't seem to have settled. They want rid. He's always looked a much better player than Gallagher to me, quicker reactions, getting on the end of crosses and willing to take a crack from outside of the box. I think under JDT, and with Szmodics he'd flourish.

£2m + a percentage of Gallagher's wages available. Jerry Yates? I'd say that's an upgrade and I also think he'd be better suited to JDT's system.

Ali Syed... https://wikifrauds.net/alithethief.html You've got to be a total scumbag if you're worse than Venkys.

I imagine that 2 year extension would come with a wage increase, to an already high wage. So not sensible considering we won't get that level of performance in the Championship week in week out. He seems to be getting ever more injury prone, and we'll never see £2m again. Obviously that comes with the caveat that we get to use the £2m and the wages saved to sign a replacement/replacements.