Stupid booking for Gallagher.

It's not working!

Where the fuck is this press that we keep hearing about? Not overly impressed at the moment.

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Ha ha yeah it may of been. I vaguely remember he did one good thing in his time here.

Luke varney, Chris brown, Jason lowe,

Good player. Physical and quick. Exactly the player you'd want to lead the line. Unfortunately Villa want £15 mill so no way he comes here.

Deep lying playmaker in FM world.

Not his 11 assists.

According to Sharpe, SZmodic was Khadra's replacement..which puzzled me a bit as replacing Rothwell seems to have been overlooked.

If we replaced Rothwell with Buckley, who played in the same side, who did we replace Buckley with?

Yes. Edit:. My mistake. Thought you meant our front 2 Vales/ Szmodic!

To play where? If midfield is 'done' and our current attacking players aren't scoring or creating?

That would be my take on it. Leopard never changes its spots and all that.

I agree with you that our current forward options, whether 'fluid' or not, look short of goals. Our last 3 (league) goals (Birmingham & QPR) were all long range. You are lucky to get 4 or 5 of those a season. We aren't creating a plethora of chances so need someone clinical up top. It seems that we have got the Liverpool lad rather than Styles. Likewise it could well be Szmodic over Bowler. If that's the case then the 2 we've signed better be surprisingly good as they look the worse options on paper.

Sounds plausible. Cheap option to cover.

From the most recent LT article it appears we are now looking for a CB. Worryingly, sounds like midfield is 'done' with the lad from liverpool and no talk of a LB winger or striker. If we sign a CB and thats our business done, then it's not a great window.

Yes, that was kind of the gist of the post. Can be seen lots of ways 👍

The thing is... If you'd said 5 weeks ago that our only signings a week into the season were a kid from Liverpool's reserves and 2 lads from league one, would we have been happy? Now throw in a potential reserve from Brighton and another league one player... Does the old cliche 'sign league one footballers, get league one football' no longer apply? Yet so far the signings and potential links, seem reasonably well thought out and decent on paper. Feel we are going to struggle for goals this year though. None of Dolan, Hedges, Markanday, Vale, Gallagher look like hitting the net regularly. Still think we need a CB, LB, a wily old bugger to cover the cm places and a quality winger or striker. Preferably one that is rapid.

Staying the obvious but an out and out goalscorer is what we need. I'm not massive fan of attacking central midfielders all over the park. Give me proper line hugging wingers and a striker who knows where the back of the net is! Anyway - welcome on board Sammie👍

Clarkson was crap. Shame being a local lad.

He's going to have to knuckle down because nobody will buy him.

This is why Styles is the perfect signing for us in paper. Better than Pickering at LWB. Can also play cm so cover for Travis/Buckley.

As good as he may be, he should be nowhere near the bench unless he commits to the club. Develop and encourage the kids that see there medium term future here.

Feel we still need at least 5 even with szmodic: CB Lb/Lwb Cm Right winger (can't cope with Gallagher out there again). Centre forward. Improve on what we have in those positions and we would have a good shout of top 6