You have to spend money to get a half decent striker these days!

admin | August 1, 2024 | Other Clubs | No Comments

“Speakman has to realise that to get a half decent striker, you have to spend some money and not just wait for another free transfer to come along,”

Just a couple of points I’d like to raise in response to my letter that you published yesterday.

You correctly recognised the wonderful season Jude Bellingham enjoyed at Real Madrid, and rightly so.

However, you must admit that he’s probably surrounded by fourteen or fifteen of the best players in Europe, if not the world, and did he show anything like that level of performance whilst playing for England?

Just like his brother Jobe, he made the same decisions and the same mistakes, time after time: carrying the ball too far and running into corners, particularly on the left side of the pitch. Their size, lack of mobility and a left foot means that they lose possession and complain to the referee that they’ve been fouled.

They both do it time and time again, and in my opinion (I’ve only been watching football for nigh on sixty four years), they both need to learn that they can’t do it all by themselves.

You chose to omit the comment I made concerning Tony Mowbray losing his job, perhaps because, among other things, he was frustrated by interference from Kristjaan Speakman when it came to team selection.

Is that perhaps why Jobe was overplayed last season? I wonder if we will ever get to the bottom of what real interest the Speakman/Mike Dodds alliance has in the whole ‘Bellingham conundrum’?

If I were Chris Rigg, given how well he’s played during pre-season, I would be absolutely gutted to be left out of the starting eleven.

Kristjaan Speakman has to realise that to get a half decent striker, you have to spend some money and not just wait for another free transfer to come along.

If it takes £4-£5 million to buy Alexandre Mendy or another striker, then do it before it’s too late.

If whoever comes scores 15 to 20 goals and helps to develop our young and inexperienced strikers, it’s good business.

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