| Wilson would be a great signing 18:56 - Jun 8 with 2214 views | FrimleyBlue |
Mentioned him the past few windows, he's just got that mix of everything a newly promoted side need uptop. NO he won't last 90 minutes, but out strikers dont. And yes he may well be that striker that comes on with 20 to go. But what a player to bring on
Get it done town :) |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:15 - Jun 8 with 1982 views | burnbudgiesburn |
There's definitely now more of a role for players who can give you 25-30m as the 'finisher' than there was a decade ago. I expect to see more players playing longer as a result.
4 of his 7 prem goals from the bench last season.
I think the big thing when you get to this stage of a career is for the manager to decide firstly, if he's till got the ability and perhaps more importantly will he retain the hunger and not see you as one last payday. |  | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:18 - Jun 8 with 1960 views | Kropotkin123 |
Agreed. If he is a back-uo option, he would be a great option alongside Hirst and the first choice striker. |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:19 - Jun 8 with 1950 views | Perublue |
Absolutely agree and with the Pope possibility… players who ARE old but still talented and experienced and hungry.
We’re not going to attract the big young names for all the obvious reasons but if we finish 17th (or above) next season we will the following season. [Post edited 8 Jun 19:20]
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:27 - Jun 8 with 1884 views | armchaircritic59 |
Would be a no brainer as second striker, most definitely not the main one though! |  | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:33 - Jun 8 with 1861 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
If he ended up being one of your rotational strikers I think you have to be happy with that. |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:51 - Jun 8 with 1758 views | ReusersTown |
Hasn't his problem been constant injuries the last few years? Which is the biggest issue. We'd still need him to be able to actually play. | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 20:23 - Jun 8 with 1603 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:51 - Jun 8 by ReusersTown |
Hasn't his problem been constant injuries the last few years? Which is the biggest issue. We'd still need him to be able to actually play. |
Been quite mixed
35 odd appearences this season
18 year before
20 year before
31 year before
Defo one who you expect a spell out for a bit, but he'd still perhaps be that voice of example in the dressing room.
As an option he'd be a great signing on a free but of course not the star striker signing or two we need | |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 20:59 - Jun 8 with 1482 views | BloomBlue |
Kevin was always the fox in the box, and that's what we need |  | | |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 21:08 - Jun 8 with 1452 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 20:23 - Jun 8 by FrimleyBlue |
Been quite mixed
35 odd appearences this season
18 year before
20 year before
31 year before
Defo one who you expect a spell out for a bit, but he'd still perhaps be that voice of example in the dressing room.
As an option he'd be a great signing on a free but of course not the star striker signing or two we need |
The important detail is that he didn’t miss one PL match during 25/26. No injuries at all. I suspect this is to some extent down to management, and how many minutes he played. He had a bad 23/24 & 24/25.
I like his experience, and instinct, but we’d have to see him as a bench player for most games. | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 21:37 - Jun 8 with 1337 views | Blue_Heath |
100%, he would be a fabulous signing. | |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 23:33 - Jun 8 with 1141 views | Churchman |
34 years old, injury prone, can’t last 90 minutes, 16 goals in three seasons on £50k per week.
Surely we can do better than that. |  | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 07:08 - Jun 9 with 900 views | lurcher |
it would be a no from me. Is this coming season one of decline? Ashley Young had 2 great years at Everton, but never contributed in the same way for us. |  | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 08:16 - Jun 9 with 766 views | jas0999 |
Very good finisher. If he’d have signed in January, I don’t think it would have gone down to the last day before promotion. We really lacked a striker. A finisher.
Like others, agree he’d have to be back up. We still need to find and sign a top top striker if we’re going to survive. | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 08:35 - Jun 9 with 715 views | DanTheMan |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 23:33 - Jun 8 by Churchman |
34 years old, injury prone, can’t last 90 minutes, 16 goals in three seasons on £50k per week.
Surely we can do better than that. |
50k a week is very little in the Prem.
I don't think he'd be our starting striker either. |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 08:40 - Jun 9 with 691 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 23:33 - Jun 8 by Churchman |
34 years old, injury prone, can’t last 90 minutes, 16 goals in three seasons on £50k per week.
Surely we can do better than that. |
Depends on the profile doesnt it
KM
" id like an experienced old head with lots of prem experience. Someone who knows they wont be be a key starting player but provide a contribution whilst on the pitch but more importantly fits the profile of being a good voice in the dressing room. Someone who could add to the leadership team, guide the younger players and help his fellow strikers.
To me.. that is a realistic profile KM would like and Wilson would fit that profile | |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 08:40 - Jun 9 with 690 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 08:35 - Jun 9 by DanTheMan |
50k a week is very little in the Prem.
I don't think he'd be our starting striker either. |
Yeah, it is sod all - especially when you aren't paying a transfer fee. If he can do what he did for West Ham and nick 7 goals off the bench in 20-30 minute stints that is money well spent.
It's hard because I think you need a couple of experienced PL pros but you need to be careful who you get because you don't want someone absolutely past it or just looking for a last big year. You need players that are still fit enough and motivated enough. I think Wilson ticks those boxes. | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 08:46 - Jun 9 with 665 views | ReusersTown |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 20:23 - Jun 8 by FrimleyBlue |
Been quite mixed
35 odd appearences this season
18 year before
20 year before
31 year before
Defo one who you expect a spell out for a bit, but he'd still perhaps be that voice of example in the dressing room.
As an option he'd be a great signing on a free but of course not the star striker signing or two we need |
I stand corrected. | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 09:07 - Jun 9 with 610 views | NthQldITFC |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 19:33 - Jun 8 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
If he ended up being one of your rotational strikers I think you have to be happy with that. |
If we only want a rotational striker could we go for Fat Gavin Holt from up the road, and redo the pitch with a massive slope? Be good for one half and plays for pies? |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 09:12 - Jun 9 with 575 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 07:08 - Jun 9 by lurcher |
it would be a no from me. Is this coming season one of decline? Ashley Young had 2 great years at Everton, but never contributed in the same way for us. |
That could be the why though. Matches that profile of Young and Keough that McKenna likes.
Experienced head.
Young didn't do much on the pitch, but I saw him literally in the ears of the starting 11 prior to kick off; especially in the last three months of the season. |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 09:15 - Jun 9 with 563 views | OldFart71 |
Wouldn't that be a lot of money for just a head though ? | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 09:55 - Jun 9 with 477 views | LeoMuff |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 08:35 - Jun 9 by DanTheMan |
50k a week is very little in the Prem.
I don't think he'd be our starting striker either. |
Delap, Hirst, Wilson looks decent |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 10:04 - Jun 9 with 441 views | GlasgowBlue |
I’ll be honest. Unless we are loaning out Hirst, and Wilson is coming in as third choice striker then I would fund this a completely underwhelming signing. We need 2 top strikers both challenging for a place in the starting eleven with a Hirst or Wilson as striker number three. |  |
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| Wilson would be a great signing on 10:05 - Jun 9 with 434 views | darkhorse28 |
Where’s the planning, the vision, the strategy, for a club with some of the biggest resources. And status in world football.
Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Leeds, Sunderland. Turning £2-15 million players in to £70 million, in double quick time, over ready, world class the day they sign, and not one or two examples, dozens and dozens, well scouted, meticulous. Planned, executed, bought well below their value with huge potential and resale value.
That’s how you build an elite club.
Popr and Wilson. To be kind both way past their best, and at their best fantastic players. Pope looked EFL last season, very poor at times. Had some injuries and looked way off.
Wilson showed glimpses, but could easily soak up huge resource and add zero value.
I’ll ask again. After 5 years of word salads, lots of poor recruitment when we’ve had resources. And the recruitment need to be elite.
Where’s the process? The vision? The strategy? The plan? The development? The progress?
Because this isn’t that.
And if these links are out short lists I’ll make two observations about the consequences.
1) McKenna will walk over broken glass to get to Fulham. (Jimenez would be a million times better option if we wanted experience).
2) 22 points won’t be the worst season in our history for very long.
It’s abject to not have strikers lined up that are young, hungry, elite, and about five levels above where we are.
They ARE available, they DO exist, and we DO have the resources and the status.
We don’t have the skills and the right people and process in the building to do it…, and I’ve said before, our ceiling is Mark Ashton, we’ve allowed that to happen, and although he’s very good at many aspects. Talent ID he’s 4/10 on a good day. Really poor this.
And stop trying to normalise it, these links aren’t making us competitive at this level…., ask West Ham.
How did they get relegated? Bowen, Somerville, Fernandez…, they’re all £60 million players, fantastic at this level, are maybe two levels above where we are…, yet with super Callum Wilson too, they were relegated.
7 in 32. Not shocking, just not good enough or close to it from a 34 year old, who missed most of the previous 18 months injured.
It’s like Ashton recruits from championship manager - the 2010 version!!
This is not elite. It’s not premier league. It’s not how our competitors operate.., not 1%. | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 10:09 - Jun 9 with 426 views | lurcher |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 09:12 - Jun 9 by Cheltenham_Blue |
That could be the why though. Matches that profile of Young and Keough that McKenna likes.
Experienced head.
Young didn't do much on the pitch, but I saw him literally in the ears of the starting 11 prior to kick off; especially in the last three months of the season. |
Yes McKenna likes an old head in the squad. Has said many times he likes a seasoned player who isn't the captain or on the coaching staff. Would that player be better off as a midfielder or a full back rather then a forward? | | | |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 10:23 - Jun 9 with 373 views | NedPlimpton |
| Wilson would be a great signing on 10:05 - Jun 9 by darkhorse28 |
Where’s the planning, the vision, the strategy, for a club with some of the biggest resources. And status in world football.
Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Leeds, Sunderland. Turning £2-15 million players in to £70 million, in double quick time, over ready, world class the day they sign, and not one or two examples, dozens and dozens, well scouted, meticulous. Planned, executed, bought well below their value with huge potential and resale value.
That’s how you build an elite club.
Popr and Wilson. To be kind both way past their best, and at their best fantastic players. Pope looked EFL last season, very poor at times. Had some injuries and looked way off.
Wilson showed glimpses, but could easily soak up huge resource and add zero value.
I’ll ask again. After 5 years of word salads, lots of poor recruitment when we’ve had resources. And the recruitment need to be elite.
Where’s the process? The vision? The strategy? The plan? The development? The progress?
Because this isn’t that.
And if these links are out short lists I’ll make two observations about the consequences.
1) McKenna will walk over broken glass to get to Fulham. (Jimenez would be a million times better option if we wanted experience).
2) 22 points won’t be the worst season in our history for very long.
It’s abject to not have strikers lined up that are young, hungry, elite, and about five levels above where we are.
They ARE available, they DO exist, and we DO have the resources and the status.
We don’t have the skills and the right people and process in the building to do it…, and I’ve said before, our ceiling is Mark Ashton, we’ve allowed that to happen, and although he’s very good at many aspects. Talent ID he’s 4/10 on a good day. Really poor this.
And stop trying to normalise it, these links aren’t making us competitive at this level…., ask West Ham.
How did they get relegated? Bowen, Somerville, Fernandez…, they’re all £60 million players, fantastic at this level, are maybe two levels above where we are…, yet with super Callum Wilson too, they were relegated.
7 in 32. Not shocking, just not good enough or close to it from a 34 year old, who missed most of the previous 18 months injured.
It’s like Ashton recruits from championship manager - the 2010 version!!
This is not elite. It’s not premier league. It’s not how our competitors operate.., not 1%. |
Is that the same Brighton who over the years have signed the likes of Welbeck and Milner, the same Brentford who signed Jordan Henderson, the same Leeds that are also in for Pope, the same Sunderland that signed Traore and Xhaka
You can't just go out and sign nothing but young, foreign players who will turn into world beaters that we then sell on for a profit. We've clearly been linked to players from abroad alongside more experienced premier league players which to me shows a similar strategy to the clubs you've listed |  | | |
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