hypochondriac

I quite agree. IMO it is worth getting in some proven NPC quality in at least a couple of signings this window.

Don't think I have done that at all. Entirely possible that we will sign another striker in this window as well as Lee that will see us steady the ship a bit after the poor form of the last month. Also entirely possible that we will just sign this striker and still get promoted. I think most posters see this signing as a gamble though (a gamble worth taking to be honest.) It would sit easier with me personally if the solution for our forward line was not confined just to a player from a totally different footballing environment. He may need time to adjust and we can't afford to give him that time if he is our only striker in this window.

Someone gets it. This is exactly what we need. If this is our only striker then I think we will be throwing our chances of automatic promotion away because we simply do not have the depth to cope with injuries to key players.

Have a bad feeling they are finally going to get away with it...

Apologies! Certain I read striker on wikipedia earlier.

I would be happy of this were true because it shows we are still looking for a striker.

I wouldn't. The unending car/bus jokes would be beyond tyresome.

Jesus mate talk about an overreaction!

Ffs bet it was from football rumours though. Idiots.

Would be happy with this. Along with jos and fonte that gives us decent cover and then Martin of needed. Please please get some pace in though.

I think at least a couple of those should have been played in the last two, if nothing else to give some of our regulars a rest.

I think the point is that Sharp is a proven, in form NPC player for a supposedly affordable price who reportedly wants to come to saints. I don't think we will get anyone much better and anyone we get from abroad will be a lot more of a gamble than Sharp. I hope we sign him.

Pretty sure we won't sign sharp an I personally think it would e a real opportunity missed to sign a proven npc striker.

I wonder what percentage of your posts contain a reference to me? Pretty tragic.

You mean like Harding is meant to challenge fox? Butterfield challenging Richardson? Lambert is challenged by? Fonte? Jos? We have a number of decent players but lets not pretend that we don't have first team starters who will play in the majority of games when fit, because we do. In pretty much every team in the country there is a first team goalkeeper. Or do you think that the likes of Joe Hart are competing every week with for a starting place?

Makes sense if we do actually buy some quality. I would like to see some proven NPC quality brought in though because we can't afford to let people bed in. We don't have time.

I don't think we will but if we do, it will be for backup to Kelvin. It certainly won't be the top priority.

Yet we have gained points thanks to the brilliance of Kelvin. The keeper does not need replacing and certainly not in January.

That isn't the whole story. Would I rather be 1st on a terrible run with a difficult load of games coming up or a couple of points off 1st on a great run? Difficult choice.

Why do you keep posting about a new keeper? That is nowhere near the top priority.

Good point well made

Don't be a fool

Obviously I was being sarcastic. Absolutely nothing wrong with using the available evidence to make a judgement on a player before they have played for us.

Actually very funny. I laughed.

You seem to be saying that the debt from markus should be ignored. We can't count the debt as definite but equally we can't dismiss it.