January Transfer Window 2026

[Nymzee]

We need to go all out for greenwood

Guys a goal scoring machine, just needs a arm around him

By arm round him you mean by a massive burly guy in prison ready to lead him to the showers.

 

[Willow18]

On a midfielder, I think we desperately need a deep lying 6, but I also think Moyes doesn’t think so. Ideally for me, a mid who lets Garner & KDH play as the 8’s in a midfield 3. We’d then use Gueye & Rohl as bench options

 

[Rich1878]

We need to go all out for greenwood

Guys a goal scoring machine, just needs a arm around him

This should be interesting

 

[ToffeeScot]

We need to go all out for greenwood

Guys a goal scoring machine, just needs a arm around him

Any suggestion of signing someone like him should be a ban. He's a disgusting person and I want him nowhere near the club.

 

[preposterousvelios]

We need to go all out for greenwood

Guys a goal scoring machine, just needs a arm around him

Should be instant ban this. So sick of this conversation.

 

[ChesterBlue]

We need to go all out for greenwood

Guys a goal scoring machine, just needs a arm around him

Gross.

 

[preposterousvelios]

Our strikers are possibly the worst in the league unless Barry has a massive shift in form and ability which I cant see. At this rate he'll be lucky to net 5 goals this season. I dont think our centrebacks are good/mobile enough to be able to play with more attack minded fullbacks. I agree we need better options and especially at RB but think we will leak a lot more goals if our CB pairing remains the same and our fullbacks priority is to get forward at very opportunity.
When Brainthwaite comes back maybe Aznou might get more of a shout. Striker and RB are the priorities for me and of equal importance, RB means O'Brien can play CB too which is a bonus as he is more mobile than current duo.

If you look in the Keane thread you'll find I've been saying basically every week that we can't play Keane and Tarkowski together. O'Brien needs to be in there until Branthwaite is back to give us some recovery pace and let us play a higher line and push fullbacks higher.

The striker thing - It's not that I don't get where people are coming from. We are struggling to score goals and the blame naturally is falling on the striker, I just think that the context of how we're playing is important.

Look at the revisionism happening with DCL atm now that he's scored a few for Leeds. People are saying why did we let him go, he would be scoring in this team etc etc. I'll tell you right now - he would not be scoring in this team. We don't create space in the box for our striker, we don't get other players in the box to make our play less predictable. We're not giving our strikers the conditions to succeed.

For someone to say that we have the worst strikers in the league, I would have to assume they only watch Everton. Outside of Haaland the standard of strikers in the PL is extremely poor. Arsenal are going to win the league without having a decent striker. Thiago has hit double digits already for Brentford despite being nowhere near the player Ivan Toney was.

Do you think Igor Thiago has 10 goals this season playing in this everton team? Personally (with the exception of Haaland who is a freak and obvious outlier) I dont think swapping out Barry or Beto with any other striker in the league would mean us suddenly scoring loads of goals, I really don't.

 

[mikel_88]

Has talent greendwood but not the attitude is ways to repent show remorse aint seen that from him. Not the sort profile needed around the team

 

[Yarrgh]

Ooh, you little tease.

Always leave them wanting more.

 

[ChesterBlue]

Has talent greendwood but not the attitude is ways to repent show remorse aint seen that from him. Not the sort profile needed around the team

Can we just not mention that horrible scumbag please?

There are zero links to him and neither should there be. Any blue who would even consider wanting him at the club needs to get a grip

 

[NikNak8]

Our recruitment team just signed Barry for £27m, if he’s not a 10 goal a season striker, how confident are you that we can find one?

I like Barry tbh, give me a RB, a LB, and just a different style of striker to rotate with Barry

I dont think our recruitment team were in place when we signed him (apart from Moyes of course...)

 

[GrandOldTeam]

We need to go all out for greenwood

Guys a goal scoring machine, just needs a arm around him

You're already on egg shells, pack it in with the wummery.

 

[NikNak8]

Disagree entirely. An upgrade on Barry would have scored, generously, 2 more goals in the league (he has 1 goal from an xG of 2.7). Assuming that sort of rate of difference will continue is simply not really how it works, so you can't assume an investment would return that many more goals in the second half of the season - he's also been doing all the other bits of being a striker pretty well, so you also have to find a striker who presses just as much, wins as much in the air etc etc otherwise the opportunity cost goes up.

On the other hand, we have been playing like a lower-midtable team in terms of our overall performances, and again over the course of the season the reality of that will likely catch up to our actual table position. Fullbacks have a bigger impact on overall team play - they get almost exactly twice as many touches of the ball as our strikers *every game* AND there's the two compounding factors of a) our wingers are our most potent asset on the field and they're being limited like no other wingers in the league are due to lack of support or even anyone to pass to and receive from and b) it would cost us 20-30m max to upgrade RB to immediate top-half quality compared to about 70m at striker.

Sorry that was a bit of a waffle haha

Talk about using stats to fit your arguement. Barrys xG is not relevant to a new striker. His xG is part of the problem, his inability to get in the right position to create opportunities to score is the problem. A better striker would thus have a higher xG and more goals...... Still dont think we will sign one in Jan unless Beto goes to Italy

 

[Joey66]

Ferguson at Roma - injury prone - he may be available on loan ? a big improvement on Barry .....

 

[jazzy]

Ferguson at Roma - injury prone - he may be available on loan ? a big improvement on Barry .....

So you'd be happy to take a punt on Ferguson who has injury problems but you're not having Rohl?
Interesting.