Interesting, I'd be even more interested if it was a proven finisher, which I assume and most certainly hope, is being worked on behind closed doors, as that is a much greater need. Unless KM's coming up with a cunning plan to confuse the Championship with a team made out of no 10's and midfielders.

What the hell is wrong with McKenna. We don't need anymore midfielders FFS we need strikers. Don't know why McKenna puts so much faith in the 3 donkeys strikers we have now

Underwhelming. Get Louza in, splash the cash if we need. And a proper striker ffs one that can hold up the ball. Our team Kipre and Azor aside is too lightweight and powder puff even for sides like Sheff Utd, and you still want to talk promotion?

Need better than a player who can’t get a kick for Sunderland. Time for KM and MA to buck up …. We need a striker NOW. Our away form is dreadful.

Nottsblue, I wouldn't be that harsh, or call anyone names, but it's as obvious as the sun rising in the east that we need a proven finisher. IA is a work in progress, Chuba Akpom, honestly I don't have a clue, GH is woefully out of form. Still 9 days to go of the window and mercifully we don't play away from home in that time. We wait and see.

Id heard we were in for him up here from a few mackams i know

Armchaircritic59
I am not wrong they are donkeys how many goals have the 3 scored altogether this season not even in double figures

Nottsblue66, they have precisely 10 goals between them in the league, which as we know is 1 less than Jack Clarke himself, and 1 more than Jaden Philogene himself. If we had a proper finisher at the start of the season, the Championship wouldn't have seen us for dust. Too late for that now, but still time to make partial amends at least.

Hes a decent player
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But we all know we need a 9 ..... why has this club failed to sign a semi decent one since we knew delap was leaving... shambles if you ask me

All these people asking for a number 9
Who?
The only way we will get one of any ability is if we get promoted and can pay them megabucks
PL strikers are either playing or warming the bench earning thousands a week
Why would they want to come to any championship club
All footballers these days are mercenaries

Get him in.

Then sign a striker and deregister Young.

@slobfeatures EXACTLY

(This will probs get marked down but I don't care)

All the moaners on here saying "get a striker in" think its so easy. Don't get me wrong I do agree that we need a new striker but how do you all know that the club isn't trying? Strikers are probably one of the hardest positions to acquire as everyone is always looking for that striker that's better than what they already have (heck even Man City would try sign someone if they thought he was better than Haaland). Strikers are a tough one, either you try get a really strong proven goal scorer that a lot of top clubs will probably also go for (or clubs don't want to sell) or if you can't get that the club goes for maybe a Premier League/Championship standard backup. With the latter the club might really see something in that player but all the moaners on here will just look at his stats and moan that he ain't good enough even before he's played. Tbh though, since McKenna has come in the way our club plays, our striker is never the top goal scorer (last season aside). Tthis season Clarke, 23/24 Chappers and Broady, 22/23 Chappers, 21/22 Burns. Its always the players behind the striker that get the goals as the striker is the one that opens up the defence and gets the occasional goal. I trust and believe in Ashton and McKenna that they will get the right players in COYB

When will some fans get it? We really dont need a striker. We are tge wndxtoo scorers in the lge. And when will u get it, that it wouldn't mattwrxwhat striker we signed. No1z would score loads of goals bcse we dont put the balls into the box for our strikers. We score our goals from other areas. Probably the only time we've put the ball across the box from tge wing(against Oxford), Akpom scored. If we do tgst more often

We'd score .ore goals. Even Kevin Phillips, the other day, said we dont need a, striker. That doesnt mean, btw, I wouldn't like us to sign one. But why is it, every time we are linked with a player for a different position, fans think we dont need them. We can sign players for more than one position. And we do need more cover for the midfield, bcse if Marusawi gets suspended, we are still short in thst area.

We have Akpom and Szmodics who got over 50 in a season at one point. We never really have a high scoring centre forward. The problem with Hirst at the moment is he can't retain the ball and bring others in to play. We need that type of striker with some goals chucked in as well.

Blues1 was you at the game today? if u were and see that performance from hirst then u know we need a striker im not a fan of bramford but he showed what a striker is about scored and his hold up.play was good apart from cheating at the end he was good hirst is crap we need a bloody striker not and more .midfielders

We lost … the moron brigade are back in town

Once I saw Taylor, Szmodics, and Hirst in the starting line up I knew we were in for a tough game. We need three midfielders on the pitch (to avoid being overrun), at least one of whom is creative, and not Hirst upfront who continues his one man campaign to stop us being promoted.

Cressi, I said when we signed Akpom that I hope no one is expecting another 28 goal bagful. It was 2 seasons ago, form from more than one season ago is next to irrelevant. Not too disimilar for SS, it was never going to be repeated. I did however expect more than 3 in the league between them by the end of January! Mind you I expected at least one " striker " to have around 11/12 goals by now, so perhaps I'm expecting too much. And BlueArmy999, we did indeed, as we too often do away from home. Buy me a beer while you're in town!

Am I being thick, or greedy?

Can somebody please explain to me why signing a CMF (which we need) stops up getting a CF (which we need) as well?

Asking for a friend......

Agree that we (and many other clubs) need a forward who can score goals. However, not sure about a 'finisher' - how many chances does Hirst get in a game for all of his hard work. Our wingers nearly always cut inside and shoot instead of going on the outside and crossing the ball. Only Burns can change that pattern. It is working well for Philogene and Clarke, but how many assists do they have? Hirst and Azon are feeding off scraps.

the problem with hirst is if we get promoted he will be gone so he's doing all he can to stop this happening by putting in crap performance

Well said @Trevski, our strikers do a hell of a job chasing and harrying that allow others to score. With a bit of luck Azon would have scored 4 more goals. Some of the idiots on here have never played football and don’t appreciate what different elements to for a team performance

Let's see how you do called expert's that say we don't need a striker if we don't go up.then you'll be the first on here moaning.
We have a very tough February this month will be a make or break for town in my view. And because our away form is so bad we will be out of the top 6

Not Blue !!