We are moving close to our first striker signing

[Andy_W]

We play with 2 strikers so I expect him to probably start, alongside another one that we buy and probably have a 3rd striker signing to add competition alongside Watmore.

If he plays every game I think we expect he'll get 15 goals, which should be enough if we bring in a top striker who can get maybe 20 plus. We need to be geared up to creating chances though.

 

[indeedido]

Assombolonga was a disaster signing.
He had a decent record when we overlaid for him and was absolutely clueless here.
£15m plus agents +£12m wages and out on a free. After not bothering his ****.
At least we got our money back on Rhodes who was and still is no good.

 

[Middlesbrough123]

If he stays fit he will score goals, there is no doubt about that for me. Just hope we get lucky in that he stays fit. Good both footed finisher

Keep rotating them strikers like wilder does and he could do well in keeping fit

 

[Glover_elbow]

Hes not going to come on loan unless he's pretty assured of being a starter.

 

[BoroMart]

One thing you can't really teach is reading of the game, and anticipating where the ball will be, loads of very good "players" really struggle with this, but equally some not as good players outscore them, as they just know where to be.

You absolutely can teach this, it's just a skill like anything else, and practice and knowledge make you better at it.

Britt is ok at finding space within 10 yards of the goal, not brilliant but ok. Most of his goals for us were headers and tap ins from that range. Of course they count just as much as dribbling around 5 players and chipping the keeper, but with Britt it needs to be created into a near unmissable chance by others.

There have been a lot of excuses made for Britts failure with is, and it was a failure, but after 4 years there are no excuses. He just wasn't very good.

Also, the team need to cater for what the strikers are good at, i.e high balls for those good in the air or strong, but not for those who are short/ weak/ fast., there's other ways to play to suit the latter.

absolutely agree, Britt was only good when you get players wide and high up the pitch and get pin point perfect crosses in. Even then good defenders got there first and negated any opportunities.

You have to have more in your locker than just being able to tap it in if the perfect cross is there. You've got to create a bit for yourself, you have to beat a man occasionally, you've got to show pace and movement to run in behind. Britt barely showed any of this. Only a handful of goals in 4 years where he ran in behind, one shot from out of the box that went in, I can't really remember him dribbling beyond players to create his own opportunity.

Britt's a goalscorer, but not much else (same as Rhodes), but it's the hardest box to tick.

Agree they both have that knack of finding a yard, what Rhodes does beyond Britt is he'll hold it up a bit, he will pester the defender when his team don't have possession, that again is another failing for Britt. If all you have is finishing, you need to be utterly exceptional at it, if you are leaving your team defending with 10 men then you need to be absolutely top class at finishing. I put Britt in that same class as Boyd. On pure numbers seems a decent player, but, you see that those goals are almost exclusively against the poor sies, almost all put on his toe by better players, and when not scoring they are just watching the game happen around them. You can't be that player in the modern game and your team be successful.

 

[lostinyorkshire]

Think it would be a good addition, but probably not a starter.

It's not the same Dwight Gayle who banged in 23 goals for West Brom in 18/19. We're 4 years on from then, and he's now 32, and a player which relies quite a lot on speed/ fitness. He only played 30 minutes of league football last year, and only 500 minutes the year before that, and in 2020 did his MCL and has only scored one goal since.

This 100%. Hope im wrong but I think we are a couple of years behind the curve here

 

[TheWolfman]

The problem is we need 3 strikers and we cant afford to buy 3 or probably 2. You are never going to get a form player on loan it's either young and inexperienced, coming to the end of their career or failed prem player. They are all gambles.

Gayle seems a decent risk at the outlay we will probably have to pay. I'm more concerned with the lack of opportunities we create as a team.