We currently have Wickham, Benteke and Ayew upfront. It would be tricky to bring in a decent striker who is going to sit on the bench and first team strikers will be very pricey right now. Sako was on high wages when he was here, however, looked like a good squad player in the last couple of months before he left. If we are getting Sako on lower wages that we had him before then it’s not a bad deal and as people have said low risk as it shouldn’t take him too long to settle in.

Also, I don’t think we are going down this year, so if not spending money now (when we know that players are more expensive than they should be) means we can spend more in the summer then again it is not a bad temporary solution

It's Red and Blue that unites us

The most worrying thing is we don't seem to have any strategy at all. It's a scatter gun approach like when we first got promoted with Holloway in charge.

Bournemouth are signing young English talent even if they are paying over the odds, at least these kids are going to be around and most probably sold at a profit.

Need a serious shake up from top to bottom before our impending relegation.

My equalibrium unbalanced me. Paul Draper Brighton 19/2/2018

We no money til summer, can only loan or get freebies til then, even the loans cant have big up front fees I imagine.

so that means its not a scattergun approach, its just the way it has to be til summer sadly.

I can’t see why this is a surprise.
We offered Sako new terms last season and again at the end of the summer window when we only failed to get him because we didn’t have space in the squad.
He’s got a goal in him,knows how the team operates and is obviously rated by Hodgson.
He’s not a long term solution but could make a useful contribution from now until the end of the season.

This is a no risk signing providing it is just to the end of the season. Our squad is desperately light and at his best he's not a bad option from the bench. He also knows the squad, the manager and seems a good bloke to have around.

I'm not going to lie and say I'm excited by this, but if rumours are correct his salary is only (in football terms) £30k pw and there is no fee, unlike with a loan, then it is a cheap signing of someone who don't forget scored important goals for us less than a year ago.

Pulis hasn't been at West Brom with Sako. He left for Boro long before Sako arrived, Darren Moore signed him. How Willoesque of me!!