If we had a goalscorer we would be top 10

[Nufc204mag]

EASILY THOSE 1-1 DRAWS WOULD BE TURNED INTO WINS AND WOULD HAVE US AT LEAST ANOTHER 7-10 Points and that would have us only needing a win and a few draws to get to the magic 40 points but we don't have we have useless strikers like Gayle who did nothing full game and joselu who can't score a pen

[Zippity]

Aye-given how tight the league is, you're probably right.

If the fat tw@t had stumped up the cash at the beginning of the window, we'd almost certainly have 4 more points from the Swansea and Burnley draws given the chances we created.

[Nufcian]

EVERYONE said we needed a PL quality striker in the summer.

Fatty’s lads gave us Joselu... and we’re flirting with relegation as a result.

[HughieG]

Aye-given how tight the league is, you're probably right.

If the fat tw@t had stumped up the cash at the beginning of the window, we'd almost certainly have 4 more points from the Swansea and Burnley draws given the chances we created.

Bad business for him that he didn't come up with the cash back then as the club would have been much easier to sell, and he could then probably had gotten the fee - or around that mark - that he wanted.

[tinostongue]

WE shouldn't really be surprised the way he has handled the window, hes done it before and suffered the consequences. The stupid t..t is a gambler, and I hope and pray he loses millions through his arrogance and pig headedness.If we do go down,god forbid,I wont be back till the fat slugs gone,fact. My mate will say,"you say that every season but always renew" well hes right and I have but NOT ANY MORE!

[Jammy89]

As others have said - once a gambler, always a gambler.

He was told what we needed to stay up in the summer and didn't get it. January we're in a desperate situation and again is told what we need, then waits till last possible minute.

I agree, had we had players in by time Rafa wanted them i think we'd be 4 points better off. Which with how tight it is makes a massive difference.

[toptoon]

Aye - it´s time for one of those games where evereyone plays out of their skin and we beat one of the big boys at SJP.

[Nufcian]

Aye - it´s time for one of those games where evereyone plays out of their skin and we beat one of the big boys at SJP.

Given we still have Man U, Spurs, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea to play in the remaining fixtures out PL survival is probably going to come down to pulling off a result no one expects in at least one of those games.

[Andy1981_2]

Given we still have Man U, Spurs, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea to play in the remaining fixtures out PL survival is probably going to come down to pulling off a result no one expects in at least one of those games.

Definitely need a surprise result. I can only see two realistic wins from the remaining fixtures - Huddersfield and West Brom. It's not just those big clubs that are games we'd expect to lose at this point - Everton have picked up under Allardyce (despite the weekend's result), Southampton are a bit of a bogey team for us, Bournemouth have come back into form and dug themselves out of trouble, and Leicester are in form and in the top 8 despite a pretty ropey season overall. If we stay up from these fixtures it will mean we've had one hell of an end to the season because we'll have taken points in games we should have lost (as well as winning the two we have to aim to win).

Everybody knew we needed a quality striker to have a fighting chance, and we didn't get one in two transfer windows. We've taken a gamble on an injured Slimani, who has just less than one season of Premier League games under his belt, and just 8 league goals while playing for the Premier League champions (admittedly an anomaly) as their record signing. Even for those who think Rafa should be getting more out of this squad, there's precious little else to squeeze out of our 3 currently fit strikers (if Perez actually counts as a striker), so not bringing someone in is likely to have been the difference between us staying up and going down. We needed someone in for these last two games, which were both winnable, and we didn't do it, and now we have to hope for a miraculous result or two to help us out.

[ghostrider]

EASILY THOSE 1-1 DRAWS WOULD BE TURNED INTO WINS AND WOULD HAVE US AT LEAST ANOTHER 7-10 Points and that would have us only needing a win and a few draws to get to the magic 40 points but we don't have we have useless strikers like Gayle who did nothing full game and joselu who can't score a pen

If's and But's are all well and good. It doesn't tell any story of reality until we see what we all think is clear to see...yet isn't.

Potentially a top striker could do the business
Potentially a top striker may get frustrated by the way we set up.

It's like saying we wouldn't lose games if we had David de Gea in goal with Kompany and Cahill in front.

It stands to reason that better players will reap better results but that's not the entire end product. It's how they are set up and to be honest we set up far too negative in the second half of 95% of games after a promising first half in over half of them.

I reckon we are much more capable with what we have but naturally would be even more capable with better additions, if we play with the same mindset as the first half of games.

We've more than proved we can compete. It's about confidence building in the offensive to see matches out rather than sitting back scrapping and hoping to get over the line.