Gyokeres

People were saying we don't need to buy an established striker and that Akpom was good enough to do a job. Today showed the difference between buying proven quality and searching for bargains. He was head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch today.
 
If we'd kept Tav it would have been worth getting him, but waste of time having any good strikers with this centre mid.

We're strong in a lot of areas, but centre mid we look well below par, and that's using any of our options and playing three of them in there.
 
Quite a few on here were saying you cant risk big money on one good season.

Today clearly shows why you take all of the spence money that basically dropped in our lap plus the 5 mill we have wasted on 2 projects who might as well buy a season ticket. And put it down when you see quality. The three times we have faced him we couldnt get anyway near him. Cant believe we didnt get him it was obvious to everyone and his dog
 
Good job we avoided him then. I'd say that a majority on the board didn't want him. Recruitment team obviously agreed. But didn't manage to find a single positive midfielder as an alternative way to supply the strikers we DO have.

The guy ran us ragged today, just as he did last season. Absolute animal.
 
Lots of people on here, and the club themselves, saying we shouldn’t pay over the odds.

Well you pay what the market dictates. If you don’t you end up with the garbage we’ve got!
 
Ironops said:
Lots of people on here, and the club themselves, saying we shouldn’t pay over the odds.

Well you pay what the market dictates. If you don’t you end up with the garbage we’ve got!
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You can’t put the financial stability of the club at stake to sign one player who could easily get injured.
 
asredastheycome said:
As injured as players who don't set foot on the pitch anyway.
He looks a great player and a big strong lad more so than the two we signed.

Let's see what financial stability we have if we go down.
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Not many Boro fans wouldn’t want him in the team but that doesn’t mean we could afford him. Everton apparently couldn’t afford him.


Coventry bought him for a £1,000,000 and have crafted him into the player they have.

We have spent much more on players that either can’t get on the pitch or can’t even make the bench which is a massive concern to me.

I don’t think it’s a straight choice in not getting your first choice striker and being relegated there should be some middle ground.
 
parmoboy said:
No point spend £20m on a quality striker if you still have a clown in goal, dodgy defence and a pedestrian midfield.

We've built a poor team.
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It pains me to think it, and I thought we would never repeat it, but is this the worst set of players at Boro since the Gordon Strachan's days? Blimey we're poor in all departments.

#UTB
 
Nobody knows what Coventry would have sold Gyokeres for. I believe we could have got him for £15m and he would have been worth it. I may be wrong.
But it is clear that Gibson under the advice of Scott has gone a different route.
They have recruited on the cheap and put the pressure on Wilder to deliver based on a squad he has not chosen.
They have clearly hoped he will get another offer and resigns; or walks out in the huff. But they will have to pay him off and we are back to square one.
Rinse and repeat. Another ridiculous cycle from Gibson.
 
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