by Millsy »
28 Sep 2017 18:56
Snowflake Royal 2 world wars, 1 world cup Ok.
So on the basis of the Bristol disaster it would seem the idea of a striker is not flawed, and in truth much as I love Stam I'm feeling angry that he and Tevreden put so much effort into bringing in sooo many midfielders and relatively little effort was put into bringing in at least one goalscorer. Yes they're hard to come by but where there's a will there's a way, and if you spend £millions on 7 new players and not one proven goalscorer then there clearly were funds and a lot of time an effort available, which were seemingly poorly apportioned (yes they did try with Oliveira and Hemed etc but it clearly wasn't enough).
Will see what happens over the course of the season but I'd like to believe there is a plan and if that pan is total football without a reliance on a proven goalscorer then so be it.
I'm watching this space.
Out of interest, how can you judge the effort put into signing different types of players?
Especially seeing as we reportedly put in two or three bids for Hemed, Oliviera, and Hugill, plus bid for that Dutch bloke and were interested in Wells until the extent of his injury became apparent.
I get the feeling you're judging effort based on success in making a signing. Which, lets face it, is a bit simple.
It's a simple way of looking at it, and yes of course you're right we just don't know. Perhaps as I believe they should have done they dedicated 80% of their time, resources scouting and brainpower into looking to confidently sign two proven goalscorers, with perhaps one or two promising/younger goalscorers, with two or three plan Bs in case things didn't work out. And perhaps we put 15% into a keeper and managed to do it. And the remaining 5% into a midfielder that we didn't really need to replace. And perhaps by some utterly freak bizarre set of circumstances we happened to just be inundated with absolute bargain of the century midfielders we just couldn't refuse, and every avenue we went down for a striker somehow mysteriously closed at the last second. Yeah that's always possible and we just don't know.
But it's also a bit simple to look at the FACTS and see that given we physically signed (and were linked with - even on transfer deadline day!!!) loads of non-goalscoring attacking players/midfielders, and we were linked 3 or 4 strikers NONE of which materialised, and decide that "oh well we were linked with a few names so they must've had the priority on strikers and got unlucky" or "ah, there just aren't any around". There are many teams in many leagues in England let alone Ireland, Scotland, Wales, abroad etc etc... There are proven goalscorers in all of them. There are Vardys, Kitsons, Longs, Doyles all over the place. To simply link yourselves with 2 or 3 "off the shelf" strikers is unforgiveable given the ABSOLUTE DESPERATION that was clear to everyone that we get at least a couple of proven goalscorers. And what about loans? We didn't try hard enough. And for that I am fuming. Sounds too cliche and too obvious to point out, but sometimes things are cliche and obvious because they are actually just blatantly true and obvious.