He scored 7 in 25 for Vitesse here on loan. Yet unproven in the PL indeed and 19m seems madness. Saw some more free scorers in the Dutch league fail in England and yet we felt the need to pay big for someone who could not cut it here.
Would like us to get Vincent Janssen on loan with an option to buy from Spurs but many will disagree no doubt and Levy may not like to take his loss.

Edited by DutchEagleJohan (05 Jan 2019 3.47pm)

Funnily enough, I was discussing Janssen with a friend. I think he might be a good short term option as he is harder working than Benteke, and is at least fit (or he was when I checked).

Edited by NickinOX (05 Jan 2019 4.44pm)

Edited by NickinOX (05 Jan 2019 5.04pm)

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

He runs the channels relentlessly, would finally provide some fast movement in attacking sense and I think he would be a crowdpleaser with his work ethic. Some people seem to think Ayew works hard, but I have not seen it. For obvious reasons I only see a limited number of games life but it mainly seems "token" running to me.
Now if Janssen would come back to goal scoring form obviously remains to be seen but worth a loan spot I would say.

Judging from what Warnock has just said about the Clyne deal on 5Live even a phone call from the Scousers saying it was done and dusted is no insurance in regards to dealings with them. He heard that the deal had fallen through on the tv !! As somebody said murky all round from the players, agents and clubs.

Edited by Booted Eagle (05 Jan 2019 8.13pm)

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

What I would like to know is whether Liverpool were aware Solanke would be out until February before they wasted our time? I can't imagine we would even begin negotiations if we knew, would we?

If Liverpool were playing silly buggers then I hope it motivates us to ruin their title challenge again. £19 million for an unproven youngster is just wrong for me. Given these big purchases of inexperienced youngsters maybe Howe has a pet dog with a bank account.

That’s the spirit.

Bournemouth have clearly bought him as a replacement for Wilson who is expected to move on. It’s a completely different situation to our own. It’s also a massive amount of money to gamble on mere potential. If it comes off then good luck to them, but a club of their size can’t afford to make many mistakes of that magnitude.