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Joshua King / signs for Watford
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This is happening isn't it. I reckon this will be confirmed a few hours before the deadline, 9pm or something.
Nothing against Joshua King who is a decent player but this is underwhelming at best.
Ole seems to like King, but he is another who like to drift out left and cut in. If we get anymore left sided forwards they will fall over each other. We need a big strong CF who will get us goals from corners and set pieces. and can hold up the ball for others.
He's a good player, and probably an epitome of the level we're at now...but another penny above the quoted £27m is ridiculous, particularly given his injury record.
If this happens it means we won't be buying another striker until at least the summer window next year. He'd improve us slightly short term, but we should do better.
He isn’t even an out and out striker is he? Thought he played behind Wilson or out wide. Is that not exactly what we have in Martial?
Make that two months with our physios.
Yeah, he is not the target striker profile we were after. Seems we are desperate to bring in a forward or attacker in general at this point
transfer? ugh. i'd take him on loan only.
Wonder if he’ll post a Pogba style “I’m back” announcement video
Imagine if we just kept Lukaku?
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I'm not sure we'll have the time, especially if Bournemouth need to sign someone as well.
I think Bournemouth are expecting another bid from us or are at least told we'll be doing so, otherwise they wouldn't be actively seeking a replacement
This may well happen
This may well happen
An advantage with King is that he can slot into the «fluid strikers» type of play OGS seem to like. He can play both from the left and in the middle. He also brings some physicality and directness we’re sorely missing. Far too expensive but hey, its january...
Stupid fee for a player with a poor injury record who its debatable if he is going to make much difference to our 1st team squad. When you take the wages and fee into account, it makes the decision to not push the boat out further for Haaland all the more crazy. Ole talking about our club and having a proper vision in the transfer market, while throwing subtle hints about previous managers making signings to suit themselves and not the club. And he is chasing a former youth player with a horrible injury record, who is mid table level at best, just because he likes him himself and coached him at youth level. A shambles if this is anything other than a loan.
Yes please! Decent, experienced striker, who won’t kick up a fuss when benched for the younger guys, but has enough quality when asked to play.
Come on Woody, dont make it happen
wtf are we doing. We should look at loaning a striker until the end of season, not signing a 28 year old one with poor injury record for an inflated fee.
how can a club of this size be so rudderless for so long? Infuriating.
how can a club of this size be so rudderless for so long? Infuriating.
Sign him!
Ridiculous transfer.
Haaland didnt want to come here no matter what, stop beating a dead horse.
Except Solbakken hasn't been King's agent for 3 years but sure.
Nice to see us trying to sign a perspective youth player with no injury problems. The United way!
Why would you wanna sign a striker who out injured for another 3 weeks 
The whole point was to have one available from the off, if Martial gets injured next game we are screwed.
The whole point was to have one available from the off, if Martial gets injured next game we are screwed.
Above 27m for a squad member? No thanks
Hardly good enough for the Norwegian NT.
Could have just signed Ben Yedder in the summer.
I rather have signed Hernandez back and I am not his biggest fan.
I rather have signed Hernandez back and I am not his biggest fan.
Just my opinion, I'm sure a bigger signing on fee would have convinced him. But i know about as much as you do on the inner dealings of any negotiation. So its all opinions. None of us have the facts.
We would have had a striker who has a poor first touch, and be £75m worse off. Probably wouldn't have had Maguire either.
This is a good signing. Evidence of increased competence. We need a body. It's literally that simple.
He's a regular though, isn't he? Always see his name on the scorer's list whenever Norway scores, and they don't score many i don't think
I don't have that much of an issue with King. I think he improves our attack.
We say, we dont do panic buy and end up with King for 20+ m .
Now we can't buy a proper striker in Summer .
Now we can't buy a proper striker in Summer .
In the spirit of this momentous day in British history, ‘let’s just get this thing done’.
He’s a good squad player, no worse than the likes of Origi and Shaqiri to me. We need those, otherwise we’ll just be playing Mata on the wing.
He’s a good squad player, no worse than the likes of Origi and Shaqiri to me. We need those, otherwise we’ll just be playing Mata on the wing.
Eh what? Without him we would be toothless up front before Haaland came.
Incorrect.
How doe this resolve the fact that we need a starting striker immediately? Rashford injured, Mason not ready to lead the attack yet, James still very green and Martial incredibly inconsistent. We need a body to play immediately. Not another injured one.
I'd rather us look for a short term loan deal than spend £30m on an average squad player. We've done a good job shifting out dead wood, we don't need any more.