Jelavic's Replacement.

Bilko · January 10, 2014

alexdunne said:
Christian Benteke has had an awful season 15mil and roberto works his magic and we get him back to a 20 goal striker

oh it's a risk that one isn't it.I get your logic,but if it goes wrong...........

Big Doug · January 10, 2014

SerenityNigh said:
"I fell on my keys"

ummmm

fozzy · January 10, 2014

Tubey said:
He's 28?

with knees of a 50 year old though.

SLAVEN BILIC · January 10, 2014

SerenityNigh said:
"I fell on my keys"

Might need to start a Wayne's world/mike Myers quote thread in the ale house.

Rupert's Tower · January 10, 2014

I don't understand why we're selling again, we will have literally no backup to Lukaku, where did the Fellaini and Anichebe money go? 13m on McCarthy, a couple of mill on the loans for Barry and Lukaku... the maths don't add up

Tubey · January 10, 2014

Rupert's Tower said:
I don't understand why we're selling again, we will have literally no backup to Lukaku, where did the Fellaini and Anichebe money go? 13m on McCarthy, a couple of mill on the loans for Barry and Lukaku... the maths don't add up

We now have at the very least £15m, and it should be closer to £20m.

Ehrlin · January 10, 2014

snipellis11 said:
When do people think we will get someone in? next week some point?

I am guessing there is someone that almost is a done deal already. They have known for a couple of weeks that Jelavic wants to leave. So probably during next week.

Big Doug · January 10, 2014

Tubey said:
If we go into February with Lukaku, Vellios and Mirallas as our striking options then you can kiss goodbye to any chance of Champions League football and probably any chance of European football full stop. It's not good enough; Lukaku has already shown he blows himself out if played too often at this stage of his career, Vellios isn't a reliable option and Mirallas has been awful all season. We need an established striker badly.

agree mate but say he has that £10 mil of the felli cash left,
he puts that away to the summer and brings in a £15 mil or so quality striker

he has £5.5 mil from jela now to bring in a striker who is better than jelavic but still allows lukaku to be the main man until the summer

Fedlingen · January 10, 2014

Rupert's Tower said:
I don't understand why we're selling again, we will have literally no backup to Lukaku, where did the Fellaini and Anichebe money go? 13m on McCarthy, a couple of mill on the loans for Barry and Lukaku... the maths don't add up

mooseatingnome · January 10, 2014

Rupert's Tower said:
I don't understand why we're selling again, we will have literally no backup to Lukaku, where did the Fellaini and Anichebe money go? 13m on McCarthy, a couple of mill on the loans for Barry and Lukaku... the maths don't add up

Yes because the only reason anyone sells players for these days is money. You've got this one solved Sherlock.

Moomin · January 10, 2014

Rupert's Tower said:
I don't understand why we're selling again, we will have literally no backup to Lukaku, where did the Fellaini and Anichebe money go? 13m on McCarthy, a couple of mill on the loans for Barry and Lukaku... the maths don't add up

Last year we made a 9 million loss, the club is run very badly. You just need to look at the accounts to see that.

Moomin · January 10, 2014

Big Doug said:
agree mate but say he has that £10 mil of the felli cash left,
he puts that away to the summer and brings in a £15 mil or so quality striker

he has £5.5 mil from jela now to bring in a striker who is better than jelavic but still allows lukaku to be the main man until the summer

Haha, as if we can leave money about.

FTY · January 10, 2014

Tubey said:
No mate, I just think he hasn't heard the full sentence. I'm fairly sure his source said "we're signing any striker other than Kenwyne Jones".

Believe what you wanna believe.

Tubey · January 10, 2014

Big Doug said:
agree mate but say he has that £10 mil of the felli cash left,
he puts that away to the summer and brings in a £15 mil or so quality striker

he has £5.5 mil now to bring in a striker who is better than jelavic but still allows lukaku to be the main man until the summer

There is no such player, or at least not a reliable option. The price point is too low. There's no point whatsoever in selling Jelavic unless he's bringing in a "proper" striker, otherwise he'd go with what he had to avoid squad disruption.

He'll either get a ridiculously good deal on an established player like Ba, or he'll spend £10m+ IMO. Otherwise I just don't see the point. If he spends £5m now, it's £5m off a proper sum for a proper player in July.