January 2022 Transfer Window

[Pob!]

A replacement for Diop is urgent!!!

A truly awful footballer!

[smuts]

If we don't sign an alternative to Antonio, there is something deeply wrong at the club. They can't keep saying their preferred options aren't available. Find someone else. They're stubbornly obsessing over perfect, and ending up with the insane position of having an injury prone and inconsistent 31 year old as our only striker.

Agreed, enough is enough. Chasing a game and bringing on Yarmolenko just doesn't cut it anymore.

[paulhs1]

Masuaku needs to go.

A total liability

[Wilko1304]

The argument would be that with Benny and Soucek back, we have a stronger bench.

But still we would have had no striker. We had to leave Bowen and Antonio on cos we have nothing else. That remains the same with the other two back, and it costs us because the pair were shattered.

And Diop is a complete liability. His poor football hurts everyone as his forward passing is sloppy, his defending is inconsistent and his decision making abysmal.

Had we improved on Diop already in the window, we probably don't lose today.

[Bubbles Fortuna]

A replacement for Diop is urgent!!!

A truly awful footballer!

He's our 4th choice. I'd sooner move Alese to 4th choice than sign someone whose only claim is being better than Diop.

We need to sign Zouma's long term partner.

[DannyboyDJL]

We scored two again today and people are still wittering on about strikers? :shock:

Antonio hits a point where it just starts bouncing off him, which heaps pressure on the defence. Fresh legs keep us up the pitch.

[Wilko1304]

How have we conceded 6 goals against Southampton and Leeds and people want a striker?

If we only sign one player it absolutely has to be a defender.

Though both would be nice :lol:

Cos we dont have enough forwards. We just don't, not ones you'd want to see playing. Problems are problems, hiding behind others is just a nonsense.

[Bubbles Fortuna]

Cos we dont have enough forwards. We just don't, not ones you'd want to see playing. Problems are problems, hiding behind others is just a nonsense.

Our owners are very unlikely going to budget us for both.

We've dropped points at home against Brentford, Leeds, Southampton, totally average teams where our defence has cost. We score plenty.

[bubbles1966]

Antonio hits a point where it just starts bouncing off him, which heaps pressure on the defence. Fresh legs keep us up the pitch.

The only reason we are chasing a game is because we concede too many goals.

[hammerman11]

We need 3 players minimum at LB CB and CF

outs yarmolenko masuaka diop

Today's result shows we don't have enough quality

[Hugh Jargon]

1980. 1986. Two crucial times on our history.

We had the chance to build something special. And we didn't. Relegation followed.

Jan 2020. Please don't do blow it again.

We can't compete with Diop, Dawson and just 1 CF.

[smuts]

Our owners are very unlikely going to budget us for both.

We've dropped points at home against Brentford, Leeds, Southampton, totally average teams where our defence has cost. We score plenty.

Yet we had to bring on Yarmolenko to huff and puff along with a young kid to try and rescue a game.

[Bubbles Fortuna]

1980. 1986. Two crucial times on our history.

We had the chance to build something special. And we didn't. Relegation followed.

Jan 2020. Please don't do blow it again.

We can't compete with Diop, Dawson and just 1 CF.

Honestly even Dawson is fine. Dawson on the bench behind Zouma, Ogbonna and our main starter alongside Zouma is fine. Diop is just embarrassing.

[NWhammer]

Antonio hits a point where it just starts bouncing off him, which heaps pressure on the defence. Fresh legs keep us up the pitch.

When you get physical with Antonio he gets so caught up in the physical battle he forgets he's a footballer.

[Bubbles Fortuna]

Yet we had to bring on Yarmolenko to huff and puff along with a young kid to try and rescue a game.

Because we managed to concede three to a Leeds side who average a goal a game?

That's exactly my point.

We wouldn't been chasing the game if our defence wasn't so bad.

[hammerman11]

He was poor today. Looked half dead on weds. Ideal for our second striker to replace him, if only !

[bubbles1966]

Cos we dont have enough forwards. We just don't, not ones you'd want to see playing. Problems are problems, hiding behind others is just a nonsense.

Some are much lower priority than others.

If we're scoring at the rate we are, and we are conceding at the rate we are - it's clearly the defensive side that's substandard and which needs addressing as a priority.

[bonzosbeard]

If we don't sign an alternative to Antonio, there is something deeply wrong at the club. They can't keep saying their preferred options aren't available. Find someone else. They're stubbornly obsessing over perfect, and ending up with the insane position of having an injury prone and inconsistent 31 year old as our only striker.

That's why I say get someone like Idah. We'll unsettle him and get him. £5m cheap as chips then spend big in defence.

[Bubbles Fortuna]

Crystal Palace, Brentford, Brighton, Leeds, Southampton, Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea

Conceding on average 2 goals a game.

Our only clean sheets at home have come against a Nuno managed Tottenham and Norwich.

Serious work needed defensively.

[DannyboyDJL]

When you get physical with Antonio he gets so caught up in the physical battle he forgets he's a footballer.

I said this during the game. He receives the ball to feet with a defender on his back almost everytime. Where is the movement to spin in behind? I don't understand how teams play long balls over our defence every week, and we don't do the same.