We would be fools if we dont bring in a CF in January and deserve everything we get if we have a poor end to the season and the likes of Gomes go elswhere.
Successfully buying players in January is all about a balanced approach: the benefits of what the player will bring to the squad versus their often inflated cost.
A compromise perhaps. For example, you only need to look at last January with our purchase of Tosun for £27m for how purchases can be short-sighted.
While I do feel that Tosun isn't a bad player at all and did score much needed goals last year, he cost a fair wedge and now isn't suited to our system at all.
I could reel off a fair number of other examples where we and other clubs have overspent in January, on relative unknowns, and eventually not got what's required.
So while we really do need a striker, what I think
@MarcelsGoat is saying is that we shouldn't buy for the sake of it and ultimately paying well over the odds.
