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we signed che for 15 m from Birmingham off the back of a 22 goal season at brum, imo we did that hoping he could be our goal scorer at prem level, he started poorly lost his place to Danny ings who adams was in front of when we signed him and hasn’t ever looked like a good finisher. Red tinted specs point to his other attributes which is fair enough but but Shane long had attributes too. Both bring something to the team sure but both are also wasteful and not to be relied on.. since we bought adams for 15m (which is a fair amount for us) on the back of that 22 goal season do you think he’s. Been a success? Serious question cos we have a chance to get our money back and try again if the answer is no?

Broja is a kid still and his potential is insane if you can’t see he’s got a much higher ceiling then adams I don’t know what to say to you. The fact that you got West Ham Everton and some Spanish side looking at broja whilst adams get forest says something too

The overating of che adams is crazy imo he’s part of the problem not the solution, saying he’s the best of our strikers is like picking your favourite STD. all he’s done in his time here has proved he’s gonna get about 5-8 goals a season which sucks for a striker. the money we get for him could sign the next Danny ings type that could actually score goals for us

We don’t really have anything under Ralph imo.. he doesn’t make us hard to beat or tough defensively., yet we also really struggle to create a lot..could understand it if we were forsaking one for the other but we are not really doing anything well we have been terrible for ages now bar that little period over Xmas last year seems more like a lucky blip tbh

I think the most annoying thing with our business is the most obvious positions to strengthen at least to me were striker and number 10s we have spent 50 odd million and still haven’t really come close to solving the problems .. it’s all good saying we are waiting for deals near the end but it’s gonna cost us dearly in the meantime.. we need a prolific striker ready to go and a lallana/mane type number ten which we haven’t really got right since those two left

I think if we could swap broja for kwp I would take that deal.. we need a striker he is one we have been interested in and tbh we prob wouldn’t go as high as the asking price. it’s all in theory but that we could get a 30m rated striker and invest a bit cheaper say 10-15 in a kwp replavemenr and still have tino to come back.. prob won’t happen but I think would be a decent deal

With delap and broja you are paying for the potential really they are kids that are standout youngsters at clubs with the best academies.. also I find it weird how some of our fanbase have some weird fetish for players who have just got a lot of games and proven they ain’t gonna score much like che and long for example. carillo would probably score 5 or 6 goals a season too if he played most of the games and he’s a laughing stock on here also didn’t carillo score quite early in his saints career before being binned off.. whilst it took che months and months to get his first goal. just saying for me adams like long before him just isn’t a player who can be relied upon to get the goals we need so if we can make a profit on him and roll the dice on someone who can I’d say go for it

This, for the money we paid for him I wouldn’t say he has been a success. chips in the odd goal 5-8 a season man.. If we can take a profit on him we can try again to find a prolific striker

It’s all gone a bit quiet lately, is this what we are starting the season with now do u think ? was hoping for a decent striker along the lines of delap,broja or even Dembélé or Kalajdzic but all very quiet

So are we getting delap then or turning our attention. To kelvin fucking Davies 🤔?

Looks like a mix of sane and boufal,I like both I’m in!

Don’t know if u saw this, he does have a bit of pace nothing like broja but not slow imo.. can also run with ball well and not just a static big man

Sure as a youth striker delap looks the best youth talent striker on the market Imo. You don’t score 32 goals in 32 games by accident, his goal record was above broja’s in youth football. when he got on fringes of city team he scored a great goal in cup , he’s big, not slow for a big man packs a shot and great movement. Joe shields also knows all about him if he’s convinced delap is say as good as broja or even close to this looks a mint signing.. im not the type that gets happy over every signing mara looks kinda meh for me but I think delap can be a absolute superb signing

I’m really happy with either broja or delap.. re delap I’m not too bothered by the lack of experience he looks as top class as broja and livremento did. And is goal a game striker at youth level .. joe shields will also know all about him and he might even consider him superior to broja which would make him top value.

So have we been in a lot of talks re broja..?? all you hear in the media was West Ham and they were quite aggressive .. if we are in for him West Ham out of The race is fantastic news seems broja definitely wants minutes so he may ramp up the pressure on Chelsea

To be honest looking at his you tube Clips he looks quite poor to me. Nothing of much excitement at all. takes too many touches hence getting fouled quite a lot

He looks sick on this you tube vid loves a Rabona cross and has a thunderbolt shot on him.. very impressive clip

Do we really want another broja situation? if we are going the youth direction we at least want to be making a profit on the players not just giving them a platform to raise price for parent. Clubs and then having to replace with another loan every year ?

Really not sure what we up to regarding getting a striker.. it’s been our clear priority all along, puzzles me why we take Lavia first and not go straight for delap,, also how long does it take to find out if delap is available or not? I don’t think the board will let us down here but it’s weird why it’s dragging on so long and we are prioritising other positions first

We should or probably left Armstrong and gone for it with broja in hindsight.. even on the YouTube vids broja looked. Something else

In the youth team delap looks the more prolific one, delap to me is more of a James Beattie/Harry Kane type proper centre forward whilst broja is just freakish in his pace. delao is definitely ready to start I think surely offers more threat then what we have and could be more prolific then broja I think he has around 30 goals in 32 games at the younger level

This has had our name written over it from the get go, he’s always looked the heir to the throne of broja. Would still prefer broja if we could swing it but all the smoke seems to be pointing to West Ham.. anyway delap kinda looks perfect for us anyway one of the hottest academy talents in the country powerful looks a good finisher like broja the ceiling looks high so will be happy with this

I find it strange that it’s so quiet on the striker talk.. it was the one position that you would think was top priority. Our other moves seemed to happen quite rapidly.. wonder if we are waiting on broja situation and he is the main choice ?

The part I have to disagree with is it’s not his game ? It was his game when he was in the championship with Birmingham and knocking in 20 plus goals. In my opinion we didn’t buy him to be a Ormerod or long we hoped he could step up and do that in the prem. I don’t hate adams and he does have some good hold up play but we could do better definitely, and unless we find someone else who was as profilic as Danny ings was our strike force will struggle