Jared Bowen

If we do sign him we might get the hard nut Danny Dyer at our matches , that will put the fear of god into the opposition .
 
RubinsCube said:
This touches on the main worry I have with the current squad.

When we signed the likes of Eze, Olise, Wharton, Guehi, Richards, Henderson, and to be fair some who did not work out for us like Sorloth, we had a hardened bunch of leaders within the first eleven like Ward, Tomkins, McArthur, and a few others like Chieck Doucoure. The conditions were favourable for young players to come in and shine with that core leadership around them.

We do not have that now. I am not sure - if we were to identify and attract the next Eze or the next Guehi - if they would have the same platform to shine.

For these reasons I look at signings like Xhaka at Sunderland, Jordan Henderson first at Brentford then at Chelsea and think we might be wise to look at doing something similar. Is Disasi that sort of character? I hope so.
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Bang on.
 
ASCPFC said:
I just presume he wouldn't come. However, does this mean Sarr is leaving and this is the best idea we can come up with?
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Probably. We may need to replace Sarr's goals and all we have otherwise is players who repeatedly underperform their xG
Honestly, I would rather take Diouf from West Ham. At least he would whip over some crosses that potentially could be finished and will have a sell-on value. I think maybe we didn't go for him a year ago is because the upgrade on Mitchell was too small so they went for Sosa as a backup instead. With Riad's injury, maybe he could come with Mitchell dropping into the back 3
 
TheBigToePunt said:
Anyway, if we had £50m to spend then surely we'd spend it on three players for £15-18m each, none of whom are proven, and two of whom turn out not be be remotely good enough. Isn't that the big idea? It's really very, very clever.
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We've already ticked that box, now we need to break our record fee twice on two players who will feature in limited games, one of whom will be completely ineffectual and gone in 5 months time.

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I'm certain that some journalists read this forum (transfer section) for suggestions and then copy and paste them into their articles with a fee plucked off a spinning wheel.

That said, there are limited circumstances where I would approve of some deal for Bowen. I do rate him highly. If he was coming in to play as an IF, no way, completely wrong deal at the wrong time. We are more than covered in that position.

However if he was intended as a Mateta replacement right now I'd give it my blessing, only at the right price, based on the dire situation we are in with Mateta being a wantaway diva and a conniving sod (trying to get of his contract early).
 
MJ_Palace said:
In any situation..... No thanks. Too old we will see the arse end of his ability and career.
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Could give us a couple of good years, I like him, but not for that silly money, we’ve already spunked £85 million up the wall in January on a lazy donkey we ended up getting shot of and an average centre forward
 
Adrift said:
£50m for a 30yr old that has just signed a new contract

Wet Spam would bite your hand off. I reckon the idea has just been floated to see what they could get.

Forwards at 30yrs are at the end of line, you'd get a year out of him at best. Not happening for half the money.
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It is a pile of horse conkers.
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If Mateta, goes and Sarr, joins him we will need a serious goal threat. Bowen , could be that but not at £50 million.
 
If we do come into some significant funds with Sarr and Mateta then my view is we can't then just spunk the majority on one player. I think Bowen is a great player but he's ageing and I think it's a bad fit for the type of football that Sage wants to play.

In my view we'd be much better off if we put the money towards a quality CB and quality box to box midfielder with then maybe a punt on an up and coming striker. I know we'd lose a lot of goals with Sarr going but I always think if you invest in the core of the team and get quality in providing the striker then even an average one can flourish...I.e JP.

After putting all our eggs in one basket with Johnson and JSL you'd hope we've learnt that lesson ... But at this stage I'm mighty fearful we'll do something disastrous! We've already seen Bowen can't keep a relatively poor team up... So if we don't invest elsewhere then we'll be the next West Ham.
 
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