2024 Summer Transfer Window

[grecIAN Harris]

Not quite sure what you are getting at really. I already put on another thread that the final third needs obvious work on it. I'm not against having goalscorers in the side. I think the "proven" part is subjective and we will have 23 other teams at least also looking for the same. Alfie May is a proven goalscorer in L1 but it hasn't yet led to much success for the teams he has played for in L1 although crucial to staying up at Cheltenham.

It's all about getting goals into the side that add up to success. Whether that's a front two who get 35-40 goals between them or three or four players who get 40 odd goals between them. Our last promotion winning side would be a good example (and none of those players were really proven until that point).

It will always come down to the right signing (wherever they come from, NL, PL2, Champ cast off..) and then getting the right combinations.

I got the impression when we were walking out that you thought we were nearly there but needed to execute the final pass/decision better.

 

[Rosencrantz]

I got the impression when we were walking out that you thought we were nearly there but needed to execute the final pass/decision better.

Well that is all part of needing to work on the final third. Today we got down the sides of the area quite a few times but apart from the cut back to Luke Harris where Aitch cut across him, they didn't find their target. Some of those times you are just pulling the ball back "into a good area" much like when you put in a standard cross. Others they had a good look up but didn't execute.

Either way, it is all about getting the right quality and combinations working in the final third to score more goals. We also need to have more options in ways of scoring and players doing the right things to give themselves the chance to score (attacking the far post instead of hanging out wide as Yan tends to do). We do certainly miss Demi's quality around the penalty area in every regard.

 

[CREDYGRECIAN]

We need a striker in the Summer - desperately.

Sonny needs support.

 

[Antony Moxey]

We need a striker in the Summer - desperately.

Sonny needs support.

Couldn’t ‘like’ this post any more if I tried. And not just one striker either, Sonny has no-one to help him out or teach him what’s what.

 

[JGrecian23]

We need a striker in the Summer - desperately.

Sonny needs support.

We needed 2, we will still need 2. Everyone knows it and fingers crosses Caldwell knows it.

 

[Banksy]

We needed 2, we will still need 2. Everyone knows it and fingers crosses Caldwell knows it.

If he doesn’t he’s daft.

 

[CREDYGRECIAN]

We waited all that time for a striker and in reality we’re still in the same position as we was at the start of this season, the only saving grace is a young lad in Sonny has done “ok” and looks like with time and experience like he maybe a useful option

 

[Billy The Fish]

If he doesn’t he’s daft.

Perhaps he's well aware of it. Perhaps he's worked hard to get strikers in but for the usual reasons cannot get those transfer targets to sign on the dotted line. Perhaps he isn't daft at all.

 

[SEA Grecian]

Perhaps he's well aware of it. Perhaps he's worked hard to get strikers in but for the usual reasons cannot get those transfer targets to sign on the dotted line. Perhaps he isn't daft at all.

Yesterday was another example of something we've seen a few times before this season - clubs with bigger budgets stockpiling strikers. Charlton, like Barnsley and Peterborough when we played them had probably 4 strikers who would get into the starting eleven of many league one teams; it seems that players like Chuks Aneke are happy to take the money rather than be a regular starter somewhere else. However, the policy clearly hasn't been a success as Charlton looked pretty poor elsewhere on the pitch and are currently below us in the table, despite our own lack of strikers.

 

[grecIAN Harris]

Yesterday was another example of something we've seen a few times before this season - clubs with bigger budgets stockpiling strikers. Charlton, like Barnsley and Peterborough when we played them had probably 4 strikers who would get into the starting eleven of many league one teams; it seems that players like Chuks Aneke are happy to take the money rather than be a regular starter somewhere else. However, the policy clearly hasn't been a success as Charlton looked pretty poor elsewhere on the pitch and are currently below us in the table, despite our own lack of strikers.

You look at that Charlton group of strikers, whilst it would be nice to have one of them I wouldn't want them all together. Other than Daniel Kanu they're all 30 plus.