toffee_scot wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 12:36 pm
Was just going to share this article but didn’t know which thread to put it in.
Also since the 2017/18 season when Lukaku was sold, Leicester have scored 31 more goals than us in the Premier League, despite spending one season in the Championship during that time.
There's a lot of factors that contribute to that though so I'm not sure that's a great comparison tbh.
It's clear though we need a new striker, but also Beto will at some point go on a run where he bags a few and we climb the league before forgetting how to play football again and the cycle will continue until we get to the end of the season, and hopefully the end of his time here.
We all love Jack Grealish but realistically if we have to pay for him come the end of his loan I'd reluctantly spend the money elsewhere and try bring in a competent striker who can play as the manager wants.
I don't really even mind paying £30m for a striker with no sell on value, as we have Barry who would benefit massively from being an impact sub coming on in matches we've already won, instead of a half time desperation sub hoping he can be less shit than Beto.
Striker, right back, then if we can get Grealish back on a loan or have enough left over to do a deal should be our priority next summer. Until then we just have to ride out the bad Beto spells and not get too excited when he wakes up one morning and puts his boots on the right feet for a short while.