Well of course not, it would mean we're playing without a striker - and oddly enough, when we did have another striker in the shape of Haller, he scored goals when he had to come in, we still won games and picked up points and was then dropped by our manager as soon as Antonio was available - despite scoring a worldy in the previous game.Greatest Cockney Rip Off wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:27 am We're not the same when he doesn't play, that's a fact.
Sell Antonio, and we would have had to have signed a striker sooner than this summer, and if our manager would have been unable to do that, then questions would have had to have been asked. As a club, we fail time and time again in knowing when to sell a player, but instead, we keep for too long and reward them with ridiculously long contracts.
Well yes, it will be interesting to see how he performs, because according to you, we don't have form in signing effective players, so on that basis, the same needs to apply to this summer's signings - but if he's going to be playing with and not instead of Scamacca, then the burn out issues are still going to be there week in, week out - and another reason for the burn out issue was most likely him jetting off to Jamaica on a frequent basis to play for them. It was no coincidence his form nose-dived after he did that - but hey, the player got what he wanted, even though a fresh and firing Antonio may well have enabled us to get the two points that got us in to Europe's second competition rather than the third.Greatest Cockney Rip Off wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:27 amI agree with not giving him a contract until he's 35 but selling him last summer? I think that would be idiotic given GSB's form in signing effective players for us. Now he has a potential strike partner, it'd be interesting to see how he performs.