Striker or not actually

Quoted from jonnyboy82

yep.

not getting sucked in again.  

I understand your frustrations on the striker front though. When I saw that this morning I was disappointed, but for me it just highlights what I said yesterday; the budget isn't there for a striker of the correct calibre. Hence why Paul was forced to bring Oates in for peanuts. Anyone who thinks the budget hasn't been cut from last year is deluded.

I remember Matt Tees coming from Scotland when nobody down here had heard of him,

He became a Legend ,

Lets hope our new coach knows a little gem up there that might become a legend here.

If he scores the goals to get us promoted , Legend is guaranteed .

Quoted from gtfc98

I understand your frustrations on the striker front though. When I saw that this morning I was disappointed, but for me it just highlights what I said yesterday; the budget isn't there for a striker of the correct calibre. Hence why Paul was forced to bring Oates in for peanuts. Anyone who thinks the budget hasn't been cut from last year is deluded.

John has said the money is there for a striker though..

I think the is money there but like you say it will be peanuts compared to what we need to spend on a quality striker established in our league.

oates was bought in to plug a gap and make up the numbers on hardly nowt.

An interview in which he announced 'I am absolutely desperate for a striker' wouldn't put us in the strongest negotiating position when it came to fees and terms.

Quoted from gtfc98

the budget isn't there for a striker of the correct calibre.

It's the $64,000 question.
I'd like to know the answer...

There's a lot of talk about 4-3-3
Perhaps the idea of Neilson and Pittman wide is the reason.
I feel it's gonna boil down to whether LJL & Hannah are good enough in front of goal.
I agree we shouldn't be reactive but equally it's tough to find quality (and fit) players who can jump straight in ahead of them.

What worries me more about this 4-3-3 is who fills in left side of the midfield 3 - we often look short of an attacking outlet left side...
It's good we seem to have players back to go 4-4-2 now.

Quoted from gtfc98

I understand your frustrations on the striker front though. When I saw that this morning I was disappointed, but for me it just highlights what I said yesterday; the budget isn't there for a striker of the correct calibre. Hence why Paul was forced to bring Oates in for peanuts. Anyone who thinks the budget hasn't been cut from last year is deluded.

True enough, the overall budget was down but JF is on record as saying there is money available. In fact there must be because the manager failed to sign a striker in the summer so that money must be still there.

The trouble is that any striker who is in the first team is going to have an inflated price. However, every player does ultimately have a price and as Crawley, Fleetwood and Luton showed, you can sign them if you really want. The supposed 28 enquiries is a bit of a red herring.

The question then is how much this club wants to get promotion isn't it? Is the club willing to risk paying over the odds for the player who would be the missing link with the goals for a promotion push? Apparently the manager isn't willing. He appears to be looking for another journeyman, bargain basement loan striker of similar style and ability to what we have, just to cover injuries & suspensions and hoping for the best.

We won't really know the answer to this until the next transfer window but I think most of us could make a shrewd guess that there will be no hairs standing on end signing even then.

Quoted from thevera

Are you and johnny boy not able to accept what PH says in that he has yet to find a striker to improve on what we have?
You call it penny pinching but when a striker, any striker comes in and you are happy for a while but then when he  doesn't do the business you will then say what a waste of the budget,  PH just can't win.
It sounds as if it is not for the want of trying to get one in but the ones we want are not there. Please TRY and accept this.

No because IMO there are strikers out there that could do a job at GTFC, its  all about opinions you yours and me mine, If you really think that the combination of what we have now will get us promotion without an additional striker,  from what I`ve seen and the goals for column in the last ten matches shouts loudly that we will fail again GTFC PP

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

He appears to be looking for another journeyman, bargain basement loan striker of similar style and ability to what we have, just to cover injuries & suspensions and hoping for the best.

In the absence of someone classy, I'm sure he was looking to cover injuries - who wouldn't ?!
Whether that means the search for the ideal striker is over, I doubt it.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

The question then is how much this club wants to get promotion isn't it? Is the club willing to risk paying over the odds for the player who would be the missing link with the goals for a promotion push? Apparently the manager isn't willing.

Well if I was Hurst (or Fenty), I would be wary about putting ALL my eggs in one basket and spending a whopping fortune on a striker !
What if it eats up all the budget and there's no money left later for injury crisis etc ?
You may well be right about the amount of money available but these are internal matters and I can't accept your logic on blind faith.

And what happens if it doesn't work out ?
I don't mean "waste of money" groans, more the expectation that the money will keep being there again and again.
This "excrement or bust" argument is an interesting one - I can see both sides...
Trouble is, if you "go for it", what do you do later if it doesn't work ?

I may be wrong but get the impression these transfer threads are more to do with Fenty's bankrolling than Hurst's management.
For that reason, I'm keeping well out of club politics, only trying to judge things from Hurst's perspective.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

We won't really know the answer to this until the next transfer window but I think most of us could make a shrewd guess that there will be no hairs standing on end signing even then.

Well if LJL and Hannah are banging them in by then, I won't really care tbh.

Was Anthony Stokes playing for Arsenal, Sunderland or Hibs when we put in a derisory offer for him?

That answers my question in my thread then. He was waiting for those 2 to get fit. We need a goalscorer to trouble the scoring charts if we want to climb to the top. Haven't had one since Hearn.

On the back burner is not actively searching is it?

Also, are there 28 strikers out there that are no improvement on what we have, or did they all knock us back? If so, why?