Not 34?

Must be down to money or contract length …

Either way, we need a striker. A goal scorer.

Good,can’t say I wanted either player at the club. Bamford is past it really and the kid really isn’t going to be up to speed from Chelsea. Would take him the final 5 months of the season to get to grips with our system then back to Chelsea so what would be the point ? Egeli is six months in and is still way off it. We need players who are ready to go straight out of the blocks,we won’t have time for them to GEL for half a season. This is the business end of the season after all.

He’s lived in Thorpe Arch, near the Leeds training ground for a long while, very settled, recently married with a four year old daughter.

We make SUCH hard work of recruitment. It’s not rocket science, he has more money than god, won’t feature in the premier league, and won’t be leaving a place he’s very very well settled, even short term.

It’s like we just pluck names out of hats. I can see the footballing logic, but Ashton has been in the game 35 years, how are we actually short listing players, what a waste of energy and time, and resources.

It’s not elite is it. Everyone knows he’s not moving, apart from Mark. Sake.

I guess on a positive note.., the last time we moved well down a striker shortlist, to someone we didn’t rate enough to be a priority, we got Delap, guess we’re relying on luck again, rather than skill.

Ashton is poor at this, for someone so experienced, we haven’t improved at all talent ID, if anything the last few windows we’ve regressed.

Let's be honest any deals on the go are normally pretty well kept secret.

Best news of the day!

“Patrick, how do you feel about being part of the project to return this great club to the Premier League? “
“Sorry, what project, I’m 34 and this is likely to be a nice wage for the remainder of this season”
“Okay thanks Patrick, the next train back into London is in around 20 minutes”

As much as this pains me Sargent from the filth

Lets get Ayase Ueda from Feyenoord, 20M£ he knows how to hit the target.

I don’t think we will be signing a striker on a permanent deal until we know what league we will be playing in next season. So either looking for a young striker from a PL club or an old stager on loan looking to play a few games bit like Ashley Young lol

tetchris I agree 100%. We need a short term contract or a loan for now. Spending big money now is not sensible. IF we achieve promotion then big money deals can be done in the summer. We did it with Kieffer Moore and it worked well. MA has our clubs interests at heart and is not someone who will take silly risks.

Require a up and running 6 foot 2 plus menace of a striker, sooner rather than later :-)

Never have liked Patrick BigIAm Ford

Lyndon Dykes is supposedly on our radar

Lyndon dykes how underwhelming that would be

How about trying to prise Tommy Conway away from Middlesbrough?
He is still young enough to learn our ways and proven goal scorer at championship level.

Darkhorse28 - why are you not at the club kicking Ashton’s rear end and getting recruitment done? You have all the answers and it’s clearly so easy. Come on, get in front of the CEO and tell him straight.

You know all about ‘talent ID’ - you use whatever that phrase means all the time and you’ve clearly identified that any good recruitment like Delap is pure luck.

I look forward to seeing how you get on as Head of Recruitment and CEO. Champions League in three years I reckon.

Darkhorse, you make this sound so easy! Why aren’t you head of recruitment? If this recruitment game is as easy as you say, then you get my vote to get in all the players that we need, no questions asked. Ashton must be kicking himself that he didn’t have your insight. Sounds n easy lark, this recruitment malarkey.

This is all an interesting conundrum for the powers that be. Given the riches and cache of the PL, the position we are in, in the table and the fact that if we failed to get promotion, there would be 6/7 teams with parachute payments in the Championship next season, including us of course.

Is there a better or more sensible time to go for it and get ourselves out of this league, before it becomes what is likely to be a lot more competitive and better than this poor season, buy spending the cash now?

Or do we reign it in, try and do it " on the cheap " and if we make it, spend big in the summer, running a bigger risk that we don't make it at all, and having a much tougher task on our hands next season in all probability?

Could be a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't. I have my own personal opinion, and that is go for it, might never get as good a chance again. I can see and understand the counter argument however. What do you think guys?

Why dont we get delap again, on loan ?

Let face facts, if we go up to the prem we'll need 20 new players all the one we had last season where no way good enough.

@bobble i been saying that to the guys i go to footy with! Would be superb but now with rosenior as coach i feel its less likely

Blue outlook. Bamford is past it? Must be why hes scored5 goals in 10 games for sheff utd?

Absolutely brilliant news

Give Akpom a run at No.9 for a few games. He can't have
become useless in 3 years.