I would have thought loan to buy deals terms have to be agreed with the club and the player, otherwise surely someone would have pulled that trick before?
It's a nice idea but I'm guessing the lad is on the best part of £100k a week therefore miles out of our price range.
Clearly Poyet agrees with you, but then he didn't rate Murray and paid a ton of money for CMS (not to mention signings like Painter and Dobbie) so his history of strikers isn't great.
Couldn't comment about Barker (or March) as I'm not sure I've even seen the lad play.
Agdestein on the other...
Why? He can't be any worse than CMS!
What I've seen of him he's looked like a decent player. Admittedly I haven't see a great deal of him but that is down to him not getting in the side.
Two games stand out last season Peterborough and Palace away. His arrival made the difference and got us a...