no its not a joke, i like wickham but he has hardly proved himself to be a goalscoring machine, he could be if he could stay fit and get a half a season match sharpness under his belt.

where is this “decent striker” coming from then? and where is the money coming from? we cant just stockpile strikers just in case we find one who can create his own chances from f*** all service.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

tbf ive never thought about his record in the danish leagues as it isnt comparible to england, stephen dobbie is averaging over a goal a game in scotland this season...haha.

i dont think he has had enough gametime to properly settle into this league...hes had what? 12 appearances, lets guess at 4 in the cup comps, so roughly 8 sub appearances, probably totalling less than 200 minutes of PL football.

with regards to seeing what sort of player he is, i would say thats pretty easy, hes a targetman who should be able to bring others into play, and set up chances for somebody quick playing off him, basically in the mould of bentekkers.

so the lad has had approx 2 matches worth of gametime, from the bench, in a team that doesnt create chances for strikers & he is being written off by some people.

unbeleivable...he may turn out rubbish, but lets give him a proper chance 1st.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Boro also made 8 changes to their team on Wednesday. With the exception of one or two, the majority of the team were hopeless the other night and that includes Sorloth. I accept the service to our strikers is not great and would love it if he proved myself and the other doubters wrong, but he looks slow, cumbersome, appears unable to jump and seldom wins a header in the box. He gives away needless fouls (Bournemouth away in particular comes to mind). I don't doubt he is giving it his all (as did the others), but he just doesn't look anywhere near good enough at this level. I fear he may be found wanting in the Championship as well, although hopefully that will not be put to the test any time soon.

With respect one cannot compare the situations with Michu and Defoe with that of Sorloth.

Before joining Swansea, Michu had played some 250 games in Spain and of course Defoe was a very experienced player and a recognised goalscorer when he joined Sunderland.

Apropos your other point, I was not advocating that Sorloth will suddenly turn into a prolific goalscorer next season.My intepretation of your post was that you were inferring that both Vardy and Mahrez hit the ground running whereas I demonstrated that they were certainly not prolific in their opening seasons at the club.

Taking all factors into consideration, I am prepared to reserve judgement on Sorloth.We have to hope that he doesn't prove a flop and that he makes a positive contribution at our club.

Edited by Willo (02 Nov 2018 4.53pm)

I agree they are not comparable, Michu and Defoe had proven track records, the point I was making was about how much they cost. I am afraid to say Sorloth and Michu/Defoe dont have a whole lot in common, in any department.

I dont agree with your previous sentiment that it is not possible to bring in a striker for under 10 mil who can be productive in the Premier League immediately.

It appeared to me you were making excuses for this very poor signing, inferring that it was somehow unavoidable. It was avoidable and furthermore, should have been avoided. We are not a club who can have a "work in progress" project type striker on the books.

Vardy and Mahrez are further evidence of quality purchases with incredible value. Now dont get me wrong, I think we did very well with the likes of Kouyate and Luka, but for every one of those there is a few Erdal Rakips, Adebayors or Jaroslav Jachs.

In January we need to dig deep, and once and for all address the problem position at the club properly. We need to stop messing around with stop gap, half baked measures like signing a player who is so far away from being PL ready that its almost unfair to Sorloth himself, to put him in this position.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

Eddie Howe is still able to find a few gems and develop them, Callum Wilson fee £3.5m and Josh King fee free ( a Norwegian forward who can play )