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He'd probably be eased into the side over a season depending on how well he would take to the PL/our style. CM/AM who tore apart the Austrian league last season, meant to be highly rated by alot of top clubs and has been linked to Liverpool.

He would cost north of £30m

On the surface he fits the bill of what Howe would be looking for, interesting link

I agree with you. I was pretty surprised with how poor he is at holding up the ball and linking up, coming from a Burnley team and for a player of his size/build those attributes should be his bread and butter really. I've got faith that Howe will utilise him better with some more time with the team and especially with more quality around him, like you say one of the front 2 of the midfield pushing up to him when he has possession would probably make the difference.. he was heavily isolated at times which didnt help his case.

No doubt he'll have faith in Wood, I know alot of fans have shit on him and some of it is warranted. I do feel that he hard time adjusting to our style of play though, its not like we were providing a striker of his style with great service although I know he did blow a few of the good chances he did have.. looked like a player feeling the pressure a bit and of low confidence. We might see the best out of him yet.

Fair point and yeah luck does usually balance itself out of a period of time but I still feel it was in our favour alot of the time since January

I've said that we had some very fortunate goals in some of those games, Shelveys free kick vs Leeds was lucky as was Trips deflected one vs Villa to name just a couple. Like you say a few of those results could have easily been draws.

4-6, the nature of football suggests that we will meet bumps in the road.. you obviously must think it will be smooth sailing and every player we sign will be a hit, no one will ever get injured again, Howe will beat Klopp and Pep in their own back yards every season. How are we better than Arsenal?? We had better form than most teams at the end of last season but that does not mean we are a better side.

Its going to take 4/5/6 seasons to transform this squad into a side that can compete for top 4 let alone compete in the CL, what the hell

Following 14 year olds, thats not weird or anything

Im buying one

In an ideal world that is what will happen but I think we have more priority positions to address before we sign a new starting striker as the fees no doubt would be massive for a player like that, need to use our wiggle room with FFP wisely on upgrading our weakest positions in the squad first.

Usain Bolt levels of fast

We all know about his injury record, but tbf the season before last he managed 28 starts. Point I was making is he is our starting striker IF he is available and you wont convince a player like DCL to come here without the guarantee of starting games which he wont get while Wilson is our no. 9.

Hard to compare the 2 really as they are different types of strikers, Wilson is more effective in our side than DCL would be given our set up and some of the players we have.. ASM wouldnt be putting many crosses on DCLs head. Wood is much more comparable to DCL than Wilson and is the reason I dont think we will look at buying him seriously (along with the fee Everton would want).

Insane how he was all Rafa was given to lead the line after winning the Championship, a Stoke bench warmer More insane that Rafa made it work though

Why do people think Wilson isnt going to play?

Agreed, I'd say thats highly unlikely. I just hope there isnt going to be to much of a bad reaction if this does happen, some people are getting a little carried away after the run of form since January and making noise about a 6th place finish might add unnecessary pressure onto the management and squad. We need to remember where we were just 7 or so months ago, this is still the building block level of our growth as a club. I just want to see progress on the field and around the club for at least a season or two, a top 10 finish would have me very happy.

And you cant have both those players in the same squad when using 4-3-3 as one of them will on the bench most of the time, just wont happen

Yeah exactly. Unless we want to play him inverted on the right? Doesnt really add up like.

Yeah pretty much what I meant, the player would have wanted the PSG move

Reckon the agent got wind of PSGs interest and tried to rinse us of whatever he could knowing they had that deal to fall back on. On to the next.