Confirmed Signing Josh King

[Fansince1988]

Look at it this way, striker wise with lots of PL experience, who else is there that would have been available? Imo at this time of the year jan window I think it was a very sensible deal.

 

[barneygumble]

I just think this is a good piece for us.
If he’s off the bench for a Spurs or Liverpool people think he’s useful, so why not us?

If he does enough, he’ll get a new deal but I still expect us to strengthen upfront in summer anyway.

We’ve gone from 5 year Bolasie signings to 6 month, no risk and that’s what we want.

 

[ExpatinBangkok]

Decent signing in my book, very pacey player which is something we need more of (though hopefully he scores more than Walcott!)

 

[Noble Savage]

Kevin Campbell was a low floor signing, so was Paul Power. You never know what can happen, not everything is so black and white.

Doesn't matter now anyway like.

Marcus Bent was another and he was brilliant for a season and a bit . I thought he was utter pap before he joined us.

 

[Jamesblue90]

To be honest we could have signed horror author Stephen King, anybody would have been an improvement on Iwobi or Bernard!

 

[Hickson9]

As good an option as we could have gotten to be backup centre forward.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Well I'm actually delighted with this deal. Makes sense from a number of perspectives and we didn't hand out a large lengthy contract and it had been done on such a way that it is likely to increase his motivation to perform even more.

Still miffed that we haven't got two attackers in and that we've left it so late. We are so slight in the attacking positions even with this signing.

 

[Fansince1988]

Warming to this deal since the details have come out. If he has an impact then he could be a bargain, if he flops then we haven't lost much.

Hes got loads of PL experience, best available and we got him, I say well done to Everton for this. Shame we didn’t get Gueye back he would have been handy until the end of the season,

 

[andy4efc]

PREMATURE CONFIRMED SIGNING TAG!

fax machine is definitely breaking now.

 

[Bluestar]

I note it’s a loan because of FFP.

So money and sales are definitely a limiting factor.

 

[larbert toffee]

To be honest we could have signed horror author Stephen King, anybody would have been an improvement on Iwobi or Bernard!

He'd be shining mate.

 

[Soverybored1878]

Pretty happy with that. He’s not a world beater but he’s decent and offers something a bit different. He’s an upgrade on tosun in my book. My only concern would be him getting a pre contract elsewhere and phoning it in here so as not to ruin it, but hopefully we’ve structured the deal in a way that mitigates that risk.

They said that about Niasse.

 

[roy vernon]

Forever blue will be happy with this. Personally I think King is a huge upgrade from Tosun. He does actually get involved in the game and has a bit of pace.

 

[JelavicBrate2]

The thing is most of our decent signings over the years, Howard, Baines, Stones, Lescott, Jags, Distin, Pienaar, Arteta, and Cahill arrived for small amounts of money. I think this is a sensible signing, he can spread defences and create room for DCL, James and other players.

 

[barneygumble]

Forever blue will be happy with this. Personally I think King is a huge upgrade from Tosun. He does actually get involved in the game and has a bit of pace.

If he’s on at the same time as DCL it’ll be great for him. Atm DCL is just being double marked throughout, you’d hope their running into channels will give us a bit more space.