2 strikers in 2 weeks - any suggestions - serious ones please ...

I honestly think that come monday either we will just pay what Midjtylland want or we will compromise with them 

Swisdom said:

paulie8290 said:

I honestly think that come monday either we will just pay what Midjtylland want or we will compromise with them 

It’s not the club who are the issue I believe...

Oh sorry I must have miss read

I thought a deal with Schwartz was agreed but the issue was with Midtylland and they changed the payment plan

Personally wouldn’t touch Grigg with a barge pole. Probably a high wage and not dynamic enough.

Redrobo said:

Islam Slimani is out of contract with Leicester next year. Was out on loan to Monaco but they were not interested in making it permanent. Out of our reach probably, but would be a great loan.

West Brom wanted him the other day

Redrobo said:

Redmidland said:

My Coventry City supporting mate at work reckons we should have a go for Maxime Biamou. He is now down the pecking order at City, apparently he's also a decent geezer and does lots for local charities. They bought him from Sutton 3 years ago, he has just turned 28 and could go for as little as £300k. I've watched his goals on YouTube, link below, he might be worth a punt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R5UChuA3XI 

Do NOT buy a used car from this guy.

Anyone wanna buy a car... proper name is 'Honest John'!!! Lol

I think that Bowyer and Gallen were absolutely honest in saying they had some targets lined up but once the takeover completed somewhat unexpectedly and the sale of Bonne they have found themselves with a bit more money and more potential targets than expected. 
For argument's sake there may have been a striker ready to sign but now they are gambling they can do better - which certainly is a gamble but I think they've earned our trust, at least for now.

Rudy Gestede was on £30,000 a week at Boro and refused to extend his contract after the lockdown. I don't see him deciding to take £2,000 a week down a league just for the love of the game.

Will Keane ex Man Utd
Gary Hooper ex Massives
Cameron Jerome ex Birmingham

Garrymanilow said:

Rudy Gestede was on £30,000 a week at Boro and refused to extend his contract after the lockdown. I don't see him deciding to take £2,000 a week down a league just for the love of the game.

And this is the problem. A lot of  players will just sit & wait rather than taking a massive drop in wages. Might seem daft to you & me, but if you've been used to anything over £10k pw for the past 5-10 years it will be hard to take £3k now. Some will just think that a better offer will come along at some point, especially if they are free agents. They might be happy having nothing for 3 months & then taking £10k pw rather than taking £3k now. The £7k pw difference over a 2 year contract is almost £750k.

I like the shout of Paddy Madden, consistent player in this league and would be a handy squad player, even if we went up imo

I also like Ronan Curtis and Mo Eisa but reckon we could only get them if we went up and offered them a good wage, both would strengthen us though

Might be a case of looking at the top players in league 2 who are young and have potential or players in this league in their last year of their contracts. Gnanduillet would have been nice but that ship has sailed. If we get Schwartz I can see us just loaning a bit part championship striker and that will be that for strikers

No idea how realistic is but I like the idea of Gestede. Always been a bloody pain whenever I’ve seen him play against us. 

Ross McCormack will come good

golfaddick said:

Garrymanilow said:

Rudy Gestede was on £30,000 a week at Boro and refused to extend his contract after the lockdown. I don't see him deciding to take £2,000 a week down a league just for the love of the game.

And this is the problem. A lot of  players will just sit & wait rather than taking a massive drop in wages. Might seem daft to you & me, but if you've been used to anything over £10k pw for the past 5-10 years it will be hard to take £3k now. Some will just think that a better offer will come along at some point, especially if they are free agents. They might be happy having nothing for 3 months & then taking £10k pw rather than taking £3k now. The £7k pw difference over a 2 year contract is almost £750k.

To be fair, if I had probably one last contract in me in my industry I don't think I'd be looking to be paid a 15th of what I'd previously been on either. It's not like he's a young player who can leverage a good season with us into another good contract elsewhere, he's 31. He's scored 14 goals in the past 5 seasons and he's not going to get what he was on before, but he'll be looking to get a decent enough salary for 2 or 3 years secured somewhere and then finish up. I'm sure if a Championship team get desperate enough in the next couple of months he could get at least £10k to hang around there

Another suggestion for me is the wonderfully named Admiral Muskwe. Having watched a bit of reserve team football due my degenerative gambling habits the few times I've seem this lad he stood out as pacey,  powerfull, type forward who seems the sort of player we need at the moment.

CH4RLTON said:

Will probably get pelters for this but i would take back Joe Piggott.

If Pigott is the answer, you must be answering a different question