Originally Posted by
AstonAlex
Personally I wouldn't touch him. We have a couple of young strikers plus Ryan and if we need a big fella let's take one with fewer risks involved, who is more of a team player and, as they say, offers something different. Uche is just a bigger clumsier version of Udoh I think and was never much of a team player. That something different would be decent in the air and able to hold the ball up - a Marcus Haber upgrade, if you like.
As to what we can afford, it's a free market out there and players can go to a club of their choosing and their decisions will obviously involve pay, length of contract, do they have mates at the club already, would they have to move home, etc, etc - that's why I think we missed the boat with Jamie Ness as he might have taken less money due to the other factors. We may well struggle to attract the 'right sort' of experienced player unless there's something else on offer, such as a coaching role as we did with Cox a few years back.
I don't think it's worth getting 25 to 27 year olds as they aren't likely to improve as a result of our coaching reputation, so we either need players at the start of their career (like Uche but better!) or towards the end.