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so definitely not a right back then and obviously KWP is going nowhere.

Who's offering? Bite their hands off. Can we send the scout that found him and the guy that offered him a new contract - oh, that was Ralph - with him?

Not seen him play. Is wright really shite? He would add height and looks bright. His goal tally is a fraction light, but might offer some bite. It would be a delight to get a signing tonight, right?

you're right.

there are a lot of links that may be total bollocks, but big, fast, powerful direct runners with the ball, guys that can control and turn and go at players, not too dissimilar to what Broja did for us in him pomp, seems to be the M.O. here. Jackson, Semenyo and Wright all seem to fit this type. It feels like their ability to get us up the pitch, to drive into space and cause problems is just as important as the goal threat. Whether that's what we need ( and I think many on here just want to get a to class finisher) I don't know, but it certainly wouldn't do us any harm to have a guy that offers more threat on the break.

no idea if he's any good or not, but quite enjoyed watching his highlights video. scored 24 goals in 48 Super Lig games over last 1.5 seasons. Big and fast, which Jones may well like.

The club clearly didn't think it was aiming low with Mara. They would not have signed him if they didn't think he could be a success. But they didn't sign him to be the main striker. I don't think they were looking to sign another striker full stop. They tried to get Gakpo, but he was a left winger.

Lorient are going to be able to afford a Premiershp player on his wages - which you would assume were healthy as its a second contract.

can play centre forward?

Mara was signed to replace Broja, not Long (who didn't need to be replaced - proven by the fact we could send him out on loan for half a season) the difference is Broja worked out straight away. Actually, my mistake, Broja wasn't signed to replace Ings, Armstrong was. Another situation where we aimed lower (as you suggested) to ensure we got someone in, but that didn't work out.

Ings left 2.5 years ago. Mara replaced Broja, who replaced Ings - and that worked out, so maybe Mara would work too. It hasn't.

makes sense -`setting our sights lower' to ensure we get someone in. Apparently that is the right approach for success.

We obviously signed Mara believing he was good enough at this level or we wouldn't have signed him. We did exactly what you just said we should do: set our sights lower. But now you are saying we shouldn't have set our sights lower, we should have signed a better quality striker.

Has anyone at the club actually said that? If so, fair enough, but otherwise, how do you know we didn't table exactly the same bid but failed because he chose West Ham over us?

You kind of did though: Going for less quality players because you know you can get them doesn't sound like a great plan to me. Besides, we got the lower quality forward - it was Mara. Everyone forgets about that signing because he hasn't worked out yet. If he has been the nuts, how many would be saying "yeah, we got this brilliant young striker but we've never replaced Ings."

obviously the three times he played for England.

Fair enough. If we had signed no other players, just a centre forward, we'd of have a line up, something like: McCarthy KWP Salisu Bednarek Perraud Ely Romeu JWP Armstrong Adams New centre forward Bench: Caballero, Lyanco, Stephens, Djenepo, Tella, Diallo, Armstrong, Walcott

But all you are really saying here is that if we hadn't spent money on crap signings we'd of have more to spend on good signings. We needed a decent left back and more creative attacking options. It's not signing players in those positions thats the problem, it's who we signed.

If we had loaned AArmstrong out to Burnley and he'd scored a few goals, would you be saying the same thing?

BBC say £21m, even cheaper. They really didn't want him hanging around like a bad smell after his fall out with the manager. Was on fire for Brighton before then too. Decent player. Technically very good, but in Mitoma they have a talent that is already firing so they may not miss him.

lot of decent headed goals in there, but not much else. Don't see much stuff carrying the ball. Maybe I need to watch some other videos focused on his skills not just his goals.

they were linked to him back in October, maybe even earlier. I think this might just be a rehash rather than a genuine update. Some have suggested Everton don't have the funds, a FFP is crippling them, but Im sure they'd find a way. Udinese wont be letting him go cheaply though and my guess they wont allow him to go at all in this widow unless someone offered crazy money.

Willo Flood alongside him

I scanned his twitter posts - it's an almost endless stream of incorrect transfer `news'.

The "Sports Journalist, presenter, occasional writer" Andy Turnswood (that's not you is it?) suggests Djenepo is going out on loan to Watford until end of season, with £8m option to buy.