I quite like Jerome, and thought we made a mistake not signing him when he was available, but I wouldn't see him as progressive, and I don't think he'd want to come back as a back up man to Wickham when fit, not whilst he's doing quite well for Norwich. I felt that at the time Jerome lacked real confidence and that season with us, put him back into decent form, but he's not the answer.

Problem is can we actually afford to sign a proven capable striker at this kind of level. Not so much in terms of transfer fee, but Salary. The ideal choice would be Lukaku, but Everton paid 28m for him and I suspect his wages would be in excess of 100k a week (110 professional goals by the age of 23 is astonishing let alone that working out as a 1 in 2 ratio).

As a signing, even at that fee, he represents possibly the best investment Everton could have made.

Chances are we'll have to sign someone relatively unproven, possibly on the back of a loan deal - but it might take time.

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Not an ideal time to look to the market....everyone knows we need a striker and so will drive hard bargains.

I don't see us breaking the bank in January.

So...Remy a possibility, but Chelsea are short on strikers themselves ( albeit they now have one more than this time yesterday ! )....so I think we would look to Charlie Austin if available at the £8m that's been talked about in the Press. Contingent on his fitness and also I suspect, QPR's willingness to accept a player part exchange ( Campbell ? )

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Not proven I know but from what I have seen Ofobi of Wolves looks to have an eye for goal.

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If we really want to move foward and have good striking options we have to sign proven goalscorers a striker like Elkeson from Guangzhou Evergrande should be our priority a Brazilian striker with 148 goals in 301 games aged 25 is a golden oportunity. Otherwise Ricardo Goulart still a Brazilian but more of a CAM that can play as a striker and has a very good scoring record scored 27 in 45 last year. We should even try Embolo we could get him for around 10M with the recent investment it's some money we can safely put on such a prospect... We could also try Dost from Wolfsburg or Movsisyan from Spartak Moscow they have decet socring records...
A risky signing could be Beauvue from Lyon he is living a nightmare in Lyon, only 6 goals in 26g, compared to his 27 goals last season he is willing to leave and the club is ok to sell him so we could get him for like 5M which is a baragan for such a player.
A dream signing would be Rodrigo or Alcacer but they won't be cheap...

You are right, but I am not sure what this really proves other than we've had managers who've bought badly. We can't let our future be shaped by mistakes we've made in the past. Furthermore, those who are advocating we spend big (or biggish) money want to buy a PROVEN striker. Of the list above, Gabbiadini was somewhat proven but came to us after suffering a serious injury from which, arguably, he never fully recovered. Gayle and Gareth Taylor were both gambles based on younger players developing and Akinbyi was proof that even football administrators smoke spliffs occasionally. They're not the sort of players we'd be looking for now.

Edited by sydtheeagle (30 Dec 2015 11.41am)

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Jerome? the one we had? Was not good enough.