How bad will it be if we don't sign a striker/centre forward come the 31st?

[Lolmorgan]

Agree with gwru, we need two strikers, preferably a powerful centre forward and a mobile type to play off him.
Our current strike force will be nowhere near good enough to get enough goals to keep us up.
Hopefully AS will bring the quality in that he's always banging on about.

We can't afford one never mind two,20 goals a season forward in this league 5 to 10 million 20 grand a week so that's us out.

[mellowmiller]

We can't afford one never mind two,20 goals a season forward in this league 5 to 10 million 20 grand a week so that's us out.

Where has anyone said anything about a 20 goal per season proven Championship striker?
We know we can't afford anyone in that class but there are strikers out there who would probably get 10 goals or more per season who would certainly fall within our price range.
Don't forget, we had a player who got that many per season and those goals helped us to stay up twice.
For reasons best known to himself the manager let him go to Cyprus and now seems to be struggling to replace him

[monty_rhodes]

Where has anyone said anything about a 20 goal per season proven Championship striker?
We know we can't afford anyone in that class but there are strikers out there who would probably get 10 goals or more per season who would certainly fall within our price range.
Don't forget, we had a player who got that many per season and those goals helped us to stay up twice.
For reasons best known to himself the manager let him go to Cyprus and now seems to be struggling to replace him

I could name a dozen multi-million pound strikers bought unproven for peanuts from overseas and lower leagues. It's called "scouting" and we ought to try it some time. It would of course help if the club did not adopt their usual approach for public relations reasons blabbing about potential signings and getting gazumped by the likes of Barnsley, Oxford, Fleetwood and Forest Green.