New striker?

The silver lining to this striker situation, for me at least, would be Delap getting a genuine shot at being the main number 9 this season.

Make the most out of a bad situation and just throw Liam in the deep end. He's a proper goal scorer, a big bastard physically and you get the sense that it wouldn't remotely phase him. He'd relish it.

Giving Delap a run of starts isn't going to be the difference between us winning and losing games in my opinion given the attacking talent that would surround him and I think he's far more likely to put away the countless opportunities our creative players serve up each game than a player forced out of position will.

You don't know what will happen until the club are willing to take a gamble. For all we know we could have our own Haaland and we could save £150m.

I know it's not going to happen and Torres will be lining up as our CF this weekend, but it's just such an obvious solution if the club can't sign a striker before the end of the window.
 
charlie9872 said:
The silver lining to this striker situation, for me at least, would be Delap getting a genuine shot at being the main number 9 this season.

Make the most out of a bad situation and just throw Liam in the deep end. He's a proper goal scorer, a big bastard physically and you get the sense that it wouldn't remotely phase him. He'd relish it.

Giving Delap a run of starts isn't going to be the difference between us winning and losing games in my opinion and I think he's far more likely to put away the countless opportunities our creative players serve up each game than forcing a player out of position.

You don't know what will happen until the club are willing to take a gamble. For all we know we could have our own Haaland and we could save £150m.
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I really like Delap but he’s still very raw abd has real aggression issues. He will get sent off quite a bit.
 
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pavelsrnicek said:
I really like Delap but he’s still very raw abd has real aggression issues. He will get sent off quite a bit.
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And he's not going to iron that out of his game until he's actually getting minutes. As I said, it's a gamble, but you sometimes need to take that gamble - especially if the club aren't willing to go the distance in the transfer market.

He's raw, but he scores goals. I would be very comfortable betting that you give him 20-30 games as our CF this season and he would outscore whatever false 9 option we decide to play instead.

It's a strikers dream playing in our side, all we need is a goal scorer to convert the chances and he's probably the most natural scorer we have knocking around the first team right now.
 
Pep played Lewandowski at Bayern every time he was available with the exception of two games in his time there. He scored a shitload of goals every season? Is it too much to ask for a guy that will score a portion of what Lewandowski did?
Right now we’re asking Pep to be our striker, and sometimes LB and DM too. Tactics can only take you so far
 
charlie9872 said:
And he's not going to iron that out of his game until he's actually getting minutes. As I said, it's a gamble, but you sometimes need to take that gamble - especially if the club aren't willing to go the distance in the transfer market.

He's raw, but he scores goals. I would be very comfortable betting that you give him 20-30 games as our CF this season and he would outscore whatever false 9 option we decide to play instead.

It's a strikers dream playing in our side, all we need is a goal scorer to convert the chances and he's probably the most natural scorer we have knocking around the first team right now.
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It’s a Cinderella story this Delap talk. He needed to be loaned; if he stays, he will play very little games. A club aiming to be the best in Europe can’t rely on a guy just out of the Academy.
 
charlie9872 said:
The silver lining to this striker situation, for me at least, would be Delap getting a genuine shot at being the main number 9 this season.

Make the most out of a bad situation and just throw Liam in the deep end. He's a proper goal scorer, a big bastard physically and you get the sense that it wouldn't remotely phase him. He'd relish it.

Giving Delap a run of starts isn't going to be the difference between us winning and losing games in my opinion given the attacking talent that would surround him and I think he's far more likely to put away the countless opportunities our creative players serve up each game than a player forced out of position will.

You don't know what will happen until the club are willing to take a gamble. For all we know we could have our own Haaland and we could save £150m.

I know it's not going to happen and Torres will be lining up as our CF this weekend, but it's just such an obvious solution if the club can't sign a striker before the end of the window.
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He’ll definitely get some minutes this season. But it would be foolish to back all our hopes on an EDS striker coming good.
 
Gus Cruz said:
It’s a Cinderella story this Delap talk. He needed to be loaned; if he stays, he will play very little games. A club aiming to be the best in Europe can’t rely on a guy just out of the Academy.
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I agree, which is why I'm miffed that the club have bodged up signing a number 9 this summer.

I'm purely saying given the situation we are now in, take a gamble by playing the only natural number 9 we have in the first team setup. All it takes is one season of football for a striker to burst on to the scene.

It's clear that he's not going out on loan now, so the club at least do have plans to integrate him properly with the side this season.
 
Gus Cruz said:
It’s a Cinderella story this Delap talk. He needed to be loaned; if he stays, he will play very little games. A club aiming to be the best in Europe can’t rely on a guy just out of the Academy.
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We wouldn’t loan him to a club in our league because we know he probably wouldn’t get games, yet somehow people are pinning their hopes on him to play for us. He’s a big lad but those shoulders aren’t broad enough to carry our expectations, not yet.
 
Gus Cruz said:
It’s a Cinderella story this Delap talk. He needed to be loaned; if he stays, he will play very little games. A club aiming to be the best in Europe can’t rely on a guy just out of the Academy.
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Swap Delap for Foden and I'm back in 2019
 
PrezIke said:
Who we want is not necessarily who we'll get of course.

Where's Kane? He's still an option.

Would be interested to see:

"Who do you think will most likely be signed as our striker?"

My rankings on MOST LIKELY for us to sign as of today:

#1) Kane (yes, still him)

#2) Lewandowski (close 2nd)

#3) Haaland (hard to hear, but City fans, have noticed how we don't get to sign these type of players?)

#4) A young talent not yet shown it that impresses this season - Lauturo Martinez, Joao Felix, etc.
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Kane has come out and said he's staying at Spurs this season. I can't see anything changing that the next 96 hours.
 
yankblue said:
Kane has come out and said he's staying at Spurs this season. I can't see anything changing that the next 96 hours.
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Pep’s quote today is the end of that story. Amazing that some people are still in denial
 
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