New Striker Thread

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

10 hours ago, saintant said:

Mohamed Toure scored 9 goals including two hattricks and had 3 assists in 11 games for Norwich.  Could be worth considering.

They only signed him last season and think he's great. I don't think they'll sell him already. 

[saintant]

2 hours ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

They only signed him last season and think he's great. I don't think they'll sell him already. 

Money talks 🙂

[Dman]

19 hours ago, chiknsmack said:

Coventry had three very good strikers last season in Wright, Thomas-Asante, and Simms. They probably go with those three as good enough for the Prem, but if they bring in another then one of the three might be available.

Two of them are going into the last year of their contracts, and the one most likely to be available is the youngest, cheapest, and most efficient last season on minutes per goal, Ellis Simms.

Might be too expensive though. Looking at other tall strikers going into the last year of their contracts...

Andrej Ilic is a Serb who registered five goals and ten assists in the Bundesliga last year. He scored seven in sixteen the year before when on loan from Lille. Forest and Coventry are rumoured to be in for him. If he forces Wood, Awoniyi, or Simms out, those dominoes falling might lead for an option for us.

Kevin Rodriguez is in the Brighton system at Union SG in Belgium. That Brighton scouting setup can find a South American or three, and after a knee injury ended his first season there and his second season was shit he went alright (eight in 21) last season.

Jesus Ramirez scored 18 in 33 in the Portuguese top flight as sometime captain of bottom-half side Nacional.

If you’re not afraid of the German second division after Damion Downs, Isac Lidberg has a couple of good season at that level under his belt. Though you do have to query why he hasn't been picked up by a top flight side. A couple of younger strikers who outperformed his 17 in 30 last season are Mateusz Zukowski and Noel Futkeu. All three have German top flight suitors; Frankfurt have activated their buyback clause on Futkeu and are rumoured to be interested in Zukowski, while Monchengladbach are apparently interested in all three.

Looking at the cheap option of free agents, Jonas Wind is leaving Wolfsburg. He’s a Danish international, and he’d be a proper Ross Stewart replacement on the basis of his multiple muscle injuries last season. (Seriously though, if he’s fit...)

One for the future is 22yo, 1.97m Serbian Marko Milovanovic. He’s on the books of Spanish club Almeira who are currently in the La Liga 2 promotion playoffs, but had his first season of decent minutes in men’s football (he’s 22) in Portugal last season. Nine in 31 is decent, but more decent when he only played 1500 minutes. The year before he made some bench appearances in La Liga 2 and only played 60 minutes plus in the three Copa Del Rey games, which included a goal and assist vs Sevilla.

Less than 10 goals between them in the PL, imo.