Agree. We need a quality midfield replacement beyond Doyle's level and a proper striker. Any less and the club have failed in my book bar Santiago who looks like a solid signing.
Not sure what the evidence is that he's finding his feet at this level, aside from a good second half against United
To get that much money upfront in the current market is a significant achievement.
Apparently something is developing on Diarra
Doyle is unproven at Premier League level. The Paraguay kid at 18 is one for the future and again has a huge leap to make. Santiago is the only solid signing assuming he signs. A striker and a quality midfield replacement are not icing on the cake they are the very least needed to make up for selling our best player for not that much by current transfer market standards.
100% agree.
If we don't get another centre forward it will be a poor window for me. The guy doesn't have to be a world beater.
Sorry but Doyle unlike McAtee is not even in the first team squad plans this season. They keep the best graduates like McAtee and sell the others like Trafford going to Burnley on an inflated fee. Hobbs has been given a very difficult task and he was aligned with Loptegui before the latter was forced out. I will wait till Sept 2 before deciding that he has done a stellar job. On the face of it Man City have barely budged bar perhaps agreeing to their original bid being all up front. Talk of £60m seems like nonsense now.
If you consider in in the context of our January business as well and the muddle we got ourselves in with JL I don't think it's too bad at all. I agree we're a striker short in an ideal world.
But at the moment the market of available strikers isn’t great I have been told.
Doyle is more first team ready than hodge in my opinion. He adds to the depth chart for us and that is important in the central areas as we will loose lemina and J.Gomes to totting up bans soon enough.
A striker isn't an icing on the cake it's the bare minimum from this window for me. Also I'd rather have had Brownhill than Doyle tbh.
Can confirm, must've been that dodgy kebab coming through.
Why on earth would anyone rather have the consistently average brownhill over the high potential Doyle?
I'm okay with us paying over the odds for someone who might bring in only 5 or 6 goals in that position. We can't have another season destroyed because we don't have enough competition up front.
Yes, yes, yes-see post below.
Because we have the high potential gomes and the High potential traore and teams packed with only players of high potential don't tend to reach any of the high potential. Brownhill is a good player, one of the best in the championship last year and right now is better than Doyle in my opinion. You need a balance of kids and experience. I expect doyle to come in and barely play, or if he does it will be at the expense of Gomes.
I for one think he’s worked miracles under difficult circumstances
If Brighton sign these players,they work wonder come on give us a break let’s see how they perform
Yes hopefully he is the new Maradona but at 18 with no experience outside Paraguay let's not pretend he is going to walk into the first team. Potential yes and all for signing these types of players. But our priority is to avoid relegation this season and actually take a point or more off the likes of mid table teams like Palace this Sunday!
So we have 45 mill to spend then
Huge financial plus for us. But under hobbs & the new strategy we will not go crazy thankfully
i actually disagree. we have Silva, signed for £35m, and now getting a chance.
Not saying that just guessing a figure from players we being linked with .. just making the point Nunes fee upfront is massive ..
I’ve never seen brownhill as anythjng other than bang average tbh, and at 27 he’ll never be anything more.
Where have you got those numbers from? Being reported as far higher.
Any add ins relating to city are realistic
Express & Star saying £47m and £5m in add-ons, but we get Doyle for £5m.
