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I don't think anyone's disputing the potential in the squad, but we are talking about sticking it in the onion bag here. Not exactly what Sanchez or the now departed White are for. Sarmiento I'll give you. Massive potential and a really exciting attacking player - sadly injured. Of that group...

So happy to gamble on Welbeck's fitness when Covid is causing fixture congestion nightmares then? Happy to have not one single reliable penalty taker in the whole team (you could argue that Maupay and MacAllister are but then why didn't one of them take the ball off Gross? And Maupay isn't...

Not sure why you've resorted to semantics and ad hominem already. Do you think we need another attacking player to complement and back up Maupay and Welbeck ???

We had a lot of chances and good xG but never looked like taking them. I called that we'd miss the pen as soon as Gross picked the ball up. In the end we needed them to do it for us (possibly Welbz would have tapped home if Andersen hadn't stuck a leg out, possibly it was behind him). Those of...

To be fair, if we signed the player we need then the threads would stop pretty quickly.

Yep. And the best moments on Twitter are always goals. Goals on transfer target player showreels, funny or unfortunate goals or ones that result in absolute LIMBS (Dunk at Fulham and Maupay at Palace spring instantly to mind). No one trails through social media looking for clips of nice passing.

13 pages and we got there :)

Again, not sure of your point. The "boring" football under Hughton in 2017/18 yielded 24 goals in 19 home league games. 1.31 a game. This season we're at 0.9. Since this isn't a thread calling for Potter's head, what sort of player do you think might improve that stat somewhat? :shrug:

I think you've answered a different point. I'm not saying I want 10% possession and a 1-0 win. I'm saying all that "nice" football equates to less than a goal a game at home in front of the majority of our fans.

"Even more thrilling"? We've scored nine goals at home in ten games. Only Wolves, Norwich and Burnley have fewer. https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/premier-league/table.html

Every time my Mrs passes a shoe shop window she's looking at at least five pairs of shoes but she still seems to take about three years to decide which ones are best and then she'll only get them when they're on offer.

Firstly you've read into the post what you want to, I'm not talking about a "star striker" or the mystery "20 goal a season" striker here. I used the phrase "attacking option". In my view we need a number 9 type player who can take penalties as another option to play with Maupay or instead of...

Well, it's a difficult reply because we are doing far better in the table which is what I asked for, but we're doing it by drawing and by virtue of the fact that there are four absolutely terrible teams in this division this season. But if you put up one of your infamous polls I wouldn't need a...

Well, let's unpack that. Potter is now our long term coach. He's not a rookie any more and has had the time that new coaches need, In that time four things are consistently true. 1) We rarely score very many goals or thrash anyone. This season we've only scored three in a match once and that...

Ferguson is very young though. I also have high hopes for him (my son knows one of the Academy keepers who has trained with him who said he's the best player he's trained against with an ability to absolutely thrash it into the top corner at will - but that's against other kids) but he's not...

Thanks chaps. I probably should have bolded the bit in brackets. I don't think the lightbulb's gone on at Ashworth Towers, do you?

(yes this again, no one forced you to open it and you don't have to comment if you don't want to) If ever a game showed why the recruitment team should be looking to add an attacker this window for US and not to go on loan it was last night. Another frustrating game where we were by far the...