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Newcastle, Everton, West Ham and Leeds are not prepared to pay Blackburn's £15m asking price to sell Ben Brereton Diaz in January.
Good goalscorer and can play up top or on the left
Do think our issue is more getting into the final 3rd, think we need a better quality behind the frontmen
We have Scamacca, Antonio, Benrahma, Bowen, Fornals & Pacqueta for the "front four" we should've scored way more than we have
The quality of the crossing from our full backs is seriously wanting, no assists (or goals) for any of Cresswell, Coufal, Johnson or Emerson this season
When this season begun I felt it was the first time that we actually had a strong squad and not just a strong first eleven. On paper this is very much the case, we just need find our ability to put it altogether consistently.
Anyway, Antonio has always been a very strong headless chicken capable of laughable control and misses but also of ridiculously good things. I dont think hes finished and even if he was I'd still love him.
We need to find a way to play that gets the best out of our players (stating the obvious) and I truly believe that virtually all players dont like playing in a hard to beat fashion (and making enough mistakes to get beaten anyway). Psychologically, I doubt it feels good or inspires anyone. When I played, I never even thought about passing the ball backwards. Always on the front foot and looking to start something. Believe it or not, as a youngster I took that inspiration from West Ham...
This means the Womens squad is now down to 20. I really hope there are some new players coming in very soon.
West Ham are interested in Sevilla forward Youssef En-Nesyri as the Hammers look to bolster their attacking options in the January transfer window.
However, a deal for the 25-year-old is a difficult one to do as he still has two-and-a-half years left on his contract.
Sevilla are also struggling at the wrong end of La Liga - they are only above the relegation zone on goal difference - so may not be willing to let one of their key players leave this month.
En-Nesyri started all seven games for Morocco at the World Cup in Qatar as his country became the first-ever African nation to reach the last four. He scored two goals during that historic run in wins over Canada in the group stage and Portugal in the quarter-finals.
He has featured 12 times for Sevilla in Spain's top flight this season but is yet to score. He joined the club from Leganes in 2020 and has 40 goals in 125 appearances.
#coming to London
We signed him from the Championship but only seem to have found him loans in the fourth tier; can't help but feel that we always undersell our youngsters when loaning them out.
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2023/01/10/wolves-renew-interest-in-signing-west-ham-defender-craig-dawson/
Allegedly he's especially frustrated with spending a long time away from home for European games
No danger of that with Wolves...
Dawson has family reasons for wanting to go, and I completely understand that, so Michael Keane wouldn't be a terrible short-term fix, assuming we won't be able to get better in this window.
Antonio has offered little this season, and seems to be on the decline, but I don't know who we can get to replace him with only 20 days of the window left. With only one other senior striker at the club, who himself is still adjusting to the league, we would need someone that can hit the ground running. Finding someone that can do that, that's available and willing to join a relegation battle is not going to be easy.
I'll have a look later at PL strikers not getting a look in at their clubs. I seem to remember a bit of talk about Ings being available recently, and he would be the perfect answer IMO, but I'm not convinced Villa will let him go.
This is why big turnovers of players isn't a particularly good thing. Unfortunately our recruitment over the last few years has meant that we had to do it in the summer and, because of the number of players out of contract in June, will probably have to do it again this year.