Exiled_Rover

Which is also why you need to get the transfers in NOW. You can't wait until 31 Jan to sort them - you've missed 8 games. Then they'll need at least a couple of weeks to get up to speed (either fitness wise if they're a young loanee or tactics / chemistry side if they're a senior player) - so that's 10 games.

I'm one of Leonard's biggest fans on here (same with BBD and Brittain when they were getting pelters - you could see they were good players), but he's not ready yet. That year out with injury has really stunted his development. He needs 6 months starting every week in L1. If he's in our squad come 1 Feb we've had a bad transfer window.

As opposed to zero dimensional when he's not? I'd rather he has 60-70 minutes to cause chaos than 20. Cantwell plays if fit, Gueye plays if fit. Don't overcomplicate things. I'd have Dolan and ACD as my wingers

He's the lad that sent McFadzean off against Plymouth last year.

I'd be delighted with Gueye bundling a cross over the line with his hand to seal a 1-0 win.

Sigurdsson scored a goal at the Bernabéu.

Burnley sold him for £15m to West Ham. I doubt he's in our price range.

Essentially another Callum Brittain:

Ah, fair enough then. Move on to the next target - we can't hang around until 31 Jan for them to decide. We need bodies now.

Yep, Godo should be in the building already. We couldn't sign him on deadline day because Fulham didn't get the Nelson deal over the line in time. Unless he's been promised to another club / we think we're getting much, much better that deal should have been wrapped up in December.

I think it's a final farewell to a Burnley legend - one who has been let go by Norwich. I bet they spend more money than we do this window.

We don't have enough CFs to offload anyway.

It's quite amusing reading how much their fans hate the football they currently play. It's a results based business at the end of the day, but it's poor form considering they've outspent most of the rest of the division several times over.

I'm for all of that except the last part. We can't afford to have him banned for 3 games.

We literally beat them at Turf Moor if the linesman knew the rules.

He puts Grella to shame if he's actually injured this much.

Sadly it's not bewildering. It's clear they don't have the mandate to spend any money, so they'll be delaying everything until the next time the Venky's deem us worthy to communicate with.

I've no doubt he and Garrett will be recalled shortly - surprised they haven't been already to be honest.

Why are assists a flawed stat to judge a striker on? As for the rest, bearing in mind you'd start Weimann upfront against Burnley it's clear we want very different things from our CFs and are never going to see eye-to-eye on the matter!

Someone makes themselves an Ewood Park legend if they snap his leg.

He doesn't have any real pace - the mini-Saka comparisons are very apt. I can see him being a very good player in the PL for a top team - one that spends a lot of the game camped in the opponent's final third. In the Championship though he's simply not running away from many fullbacks and that's a problem for us.

Incredibly there are still some that really underestimate the job he's done here. Our attacking options are woeful, absolutely woeful. Nobody in our front 4 on Weds would even get on Leeds' bench and we've taken 4 points from them this season. He's down to his last two fit senior CBs yet Pears has 10 clean sheets this season. The man is working miracles. Now maybe he's got a terrible eye for talent and if you gave him £5m he'd spend it on absolute dross, but that's about the only hypothetical criticism I can make.

I guess it depends what you want from your players. I think Gueye leads the line well - better than Ohashi, Leonard and Gallagher (you can add Ennis and Brereton-Diaz to that list too from recent players). He's technically limited, but he puts himself about and brings others into play. To put it bluntly, the ball sticks upfront when he's playing and it gives us an added dimension. If we're looking at the stats, technically Gueye has 3 goals and 6 assists so far for us this season. Personally I don't think that accurately reflects his impact on the game, but it's a tangible stat to work from (i.e. no other CF on our books wins that header against Leeds [and I don't think JRC got credited for an assist either, even though it came off him].). If we're comparing him to, admittedly my least favourite Rovers player of recent times (Danny Murphy can no longer be considered recent), Gallagher's best season for us, when he was on loan, he had 12 goals and 3 assists. His next two best seasons he had 8 goals and 5 assists and 9 goals and 3 assists respectively. Right now Gueye has 9 goal contributions. During his best season here (when he was touted as the next big thing and ultimately Mowbray was suckered into spending £5m on him) Gallagher had 15 goal contributions. After that his next two best seasons hit 13 then 12. Barring injury I think Gueye will go on to eclipse Gallagher's best season here - probably quite comfortably. Obviously this all depends on how much you value assists - evidently you don't think cushioning a header into the path of Weimann warranted much praise, and that's fair enough. 'Old school' I think they'd call your thinking.

Perhaps - but you have Gueye and Leonard in the squad. At least they can both actually play CF. Weimann can't.

That's a terrifyingly bad forward line.