We can't wait to Jan with one recognised striker, I agree campbell is no good, however we had at least 6 weeks to identify striker targets.

we have identified targets, abd bid for them in batsuiyi benteke berahino...ok maybe we were punching above our weight bidding for those 3 players but at least we tried for them.

every friggin club in the league is after this golden goose of a striker, its the hardest position to sort out.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

It happens every window, even if we bought in a benteke, how match fit would he be? It's not like the championship, where we have to wait,because we had a small transfer budget.

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He scores one with left foot, he scores one with his right
And When his playing Brighton, He scores all f***ING Night!

wtf? diame isnt a striker, whats he got to do with it?

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

The clubs earnings, of course, vary with the final position we finish in the league.

whilst it is impossible to attribute any league position to a single player if we had a striker who, say, scored 20 goals a season and we finished seventh or eighth we would generate an additional 1.25m per place over last year. In this example that could be as much as ten million more in income which would go a long, long way to covering the cost of the expensive striker.

Then you have the asset value until the player is sold and one never knows whether that will be more or less than we purchased said player for.

Of course the higher up the league we get more television income is possible, the possibilities of Europe open up and we are a better bet in cup competitions - all revenue generating.

I am far from an expert but I would imagine SP has all of the above and more besides factored in to every possible transfer.

Using Benteke on 130,000 a week as an example he would also replace someone who has left the club - let us say that someone is either Chamakh or Adebayor who were both earning sixty five thousand a week. Therefore, in reality, we should only do calculations on the 'extra' amount the player costs us over and above who he replaces and not his full salary. If he replaces both of the aforementioned then he is actually not costing us any extra in salary terms!

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We will sign a striker and probably pick up another one on loan.

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Matt Ritchie was on the radio the other day who has also signed for Newcastle from an EPL club. He said that the draw of playing in front of large crowds for a club with a long history was too good to turn down. Suspect the targets that we are looking at have a number of suitors and will need persuading to come to us, clubs like Newcastle seemingly don't have this problem.

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