If you are going to criticise everything they do you have to be willing to offer suggestions as to what might be better. It easy to see 'big forrud needed who is good enough' and set out criteria (under 28, no sick notes, championship experience, proven goal scoring record in the division) but less easy to put it into practice.
Max Watters is an interesting one, without going into detail on here I have had reason to spend a fair bit of time watching Gainsborough train, Watters joined Gainsborough on loan from Donny and lets just say he could not trap a bag of cement in training and there were better prospects in Gainsboroughs under 21 team.
Now the lad has either suddenly developed or he is going to be a one season wonder, I would not want to spend money finding out.
The point being is that strikers are in that short supply they are expensive, is Gnanduillet the solution? Who knows, but he is available, affordable and scored for fun in league 1 last season, so is he worth a gamble or do we do nothing?
I agree regarding Watters, spending that sort of money based on a decent half season in League Two is insanity, but that's the market we're in at the minute, and we can't compete with those sort of fees. I'd rather us take a risk on someone like Gnanduillet for free than spend way beyond our means on somebody who is probably no better than what we've already got.
In the league above, Sheffield United have spent really large fees by their standards on a few players and they haven't really improved the team at all. They could've signed a few players on free transfers instead and been in exactly the same position.
I want someone good enough for the championship now. Too big a risk Gnanduillet at his age. Derbyshire he'd done it championship level at about same age but proved a good signing.
Following on from Real Millers comments about Sheffield United spending money for no improvement..,
2 years ago we had a bad January window and there’s wide spread belief that one signing might have kept us up (and maybe it would if it was a really good one) but in the same window Ipswich signed half a dozen players including, if i remember rightly, a striker we wanted, and it made no difference whatsoever to their fortunes.
Trying to get 1 or 2 signings on a budget to transform our season is a hell of a challenge.
I have a feeling that our most important changes in coming weeks will be returns to fitness of the LTIs and hopefully with that a return to the 4-5-1 that didnt look too shabby early on.
I will welcome any player IF WE SIGN them and judge how they play in a rotherham shirt like I have always done with previous signings
As fans that's the least the player can expect judge them on their performance for us
For Gwrus benefit I will repeat that we could no longer afford a 28 year old Derbyshire, and I think it's fair to say that although he did ok he didnt set the world on fire with 17 goals over two full seasons.
No suggestions from the man himself yet on who he thinks fits his own criteria.
It's a great point from DKNY. The assumption that the one key signing we didnt make would have made all the difference is wrong. Ipswich beat us to the signing up Quaner from Huddersfield and he did sod all for them. The Blades have spent about 30m on two young strikers and seem to have lost their mojo in an attempt to add quality. Blackstock was the experienced championship quality striker who was supposed to make the difference for us. The highly rated Jack Marriott has done nothing in the Champioship with Derby and Wednesday despite being prolific in League One for Peterborough.
If you can make signings that improve you great, but it is always difficult and particularly at the mid point in the season. It's often an act of desperation. It isnt necessarily a magic bullet.
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Managers players will get criticised it comes with the job. If a players name pops up who might be ok I will be the first to say so. I will go back to Tilt how long will it be before he plays for us I haven't got that much time left.
Reading tizer Gnanduillet he's a free agent that's why we are showing interest in him. We need someone better than we have. Is he? Definitely not worth a contract longer than till end of this season.
His agent seems to be touting him all around the EFL - Sunderland allegedly pulled out because they don't to be involved in a wages auction. Guess we all know who'll take the bait. Seriously would love to know what Scott is doing if Gnanduillet is the best he can come up with or is that we cannot/will not proceed with his suggestions.
