03 Feb 2025 13:12:20
Is there any point in spending on a CF in Jan, maybe waiting till the summer to get more options finance and time?
03 Feb 2025 14:27:48
When you don’t have a single striker scoring goals, it’s a massive risk to wait until the summer. Neither Hojland or Zirkzee look like they’ll hit form. Manioo as a false 9 was a disaster. This side will struggle to finish in the top half of the table without adding a striker. That has a knock on effect going into the summer, no money from European competitions, and harder to convince top class players to sign.
03 Feb 2025 14:45:03
But better to wait and sign the correct player than sign the wrong one now meaning we have another expensive player on the books.
03 Feb 2025 15:09:49
The Club is an absolute shambles. What do you think is going to happen in the summer?
03 Feb 2025 15:33:53
GDS, consistent goal scorers are rare. Arsenal have shown how difficult they are to find, even when you’re competing for titles and playing in the champions league. I’m not convinced that waiting until the summer will do anything but make us less attractive to the correct type of player.
03 Feb 2025 15:35:09
Yes the club is a shambles, ran by utter prats. in fact is worse now than ever. Not sure what more jim the rat can do to miff us off more. well, today he is going to.
03 Feb 2025 15:38:01
Danny this side won’t finish top half regardless!
03 Feb 2025 15:39:30
Any loan now is surely better than what we have. The Mainoo/ Fernandes false 9 experiments flopped. Zirkzee and Hojlund didn't contribute in any way at home to Crystal Palace. There's this talk of them needing service, they can still be authoritive and have an impact without scoring. Ours are woeful. Literally any loan that might see us bring in a more experienced player at this point is surely better than that.
03 Feb 2025 18:18:46
I’m with Danny on this one. Not getting a striker in will prove extremely costly.
I get that it would be hard to find the perfect no.9 in January but we cannot surely be going into the last few months of the season with Højlund and Zirkzee as our options. They’ve been woeful.
A deal for Osimhen surely could’ve been explored? Using some of our outgoing players in a deal.
03 Feb 2025 22:39:01
2toms,
How do you know we didn’t explore an option for a few players and decide it wouldn’t work for us?
We’ve panic bought strikers on loan in January previously, Ighalo and Weghorst, how did they turn out? Which clubs have bought a top striker this window that was available that we’ve missed as I’m struggling to think of one?
04 Feb 2025 12:52:41
2toms Osimhen is on loan from his parent club. He could not be signed until the loan agreement is over or United are 1 of the 10 clubs he could sign for in Jan (reported clause in his loan contract) . I doubt he would want to move to United when he can go to a team playing champions league football and in a much better place than United is.
04 Feb 2025 20:36:58
GDS2, Marmoush and Jhon Duran both moved clubs. 2 good strikers.
Giminez went to Milan. Another decent striker.
It doesn’t have to be someone mentioned and discussed a million times on this site. Our scouts are there to identify players.
{Ed001's Note - Boniface was all set for Al Nassr until they pulled out at the last minute.}