Have we bought those two twenty goals a season strikers we need for automatic promotion yet❓ 🫣

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With the number of allowed substitutions increasing among other things, 20 goal a season strikers are all but extinct now sadly.
 
Wards said:
Is this a serious thread? You want TWO 20 goal a season strikers? How much money do we have?
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The last time I saw a club come close to having anything like that was Reading when they got promoted the same season as us. They had Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita and Kevin Doyle. The miracle of that was they paid £150k for Kitson who scored 18 goals, Lita cost £1mil who scored 11 goals and Doyle cost £78k who scored 18 goals.

We paid a then club record £1.75mil for Akinibiyi in January, who had already scored 12 goals for Burnley and Warnock only got 3 goals out of him that season. Reading paid less for all three and got 47 goals out of them!
 
Tony_Kaufman said:
The last time I saw a club come close to having anything like that was Reading when they got promoted the same season as us. They had Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita and Kevin Doyle. The miracle of that was they paid £150k for Kitson who scored 18 goals, Lita cost £1mil who scored 11 goals and Doyle cost £78k who scored 18 goals.

We paid a then club record £1.75mil for Akinibiyi in January, who had already scored 12 goals for Burnley and Warnock only got 3 goals out of him that season. Reading paid less for all three and got 47 goals out of them!
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Spot on. And that’s the Moneyball selection capability that the AI algorithm’s have to deliver immediately.
 

Tony_Kaufman said:
The last time I saw a club come close to having anything like that was Reading when they got promoted the same season as us. They had Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita and Kevin Doyle. The miracle of that was they paid £150k for Kitson who scored 18 goals, Lita cost £1mil who scored 11 goals and Doyle cost £78k who scored 18 goals.

We paid a then club record £1.75mil for Akinibiyi in January, who had already scored 12 goals for Burnley and Warnock only got 3 goals out of him that season. Reading paid less for all three and got 47 goals out of them!
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It's the Blades way.
 
Let’s face it we would have really struggled with the players and system from last season if we’d have got promoted, there would have been a cash injected to improve the team but we weren’t naturally scoring goals in the Championship and as we know it’s even harder in the Premier League the 2 best sides that went up had a. The best defence b.the best attack there would have had to be a full on change to our system to offer us a chance, the days of roving centre backs seems a long time away now.
 
Tony_Kaufman said:
The last time I saw a club come close to having anything like that was Reading when they got promoted the same season as us. They had Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita and Kevin Doyle. The miracle of that was they paid £150k for Kitson who scored 18 goals, Lita cost £1mil who scored 11 goals and Doyle cost £78k who scored 18 goals.

We paid a then club record £1.75mil for Akinibiyi in January, who had already scored 12 goals for Burnley and Warnock only got 3 goals out of him that season. Reading paid less for all three and got 47 goals out of them!
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Scored at the Pig, so the lad will do for me.

Akinbyi; - Blades ;egend.
 
As far as I can tell, no side in the last 30 years has had two players score 20+ goals in the second tier
 
Houston_Blade said:
We got promoted with Ndiaye and McBurnie getting 15 each last time around.
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Valid point. But I think in addition the midfield and defence was overcontributing that season, goals were coming from across the team.
Basically, if just one of our forwards scored a goal in every league game we'd have a base of 46 goals a season to build upon. That's a game changing target. We only scored 57 in 46 games last season (+6 OGs).

Here's an alternative view of our goal scoring prowess with a tongue in cheek evaluation...

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Striker is well down the list of positions to strengthen this window for me.

If Campbell stays fit all season he's got a great chance of 20 goals.

If Cannon gets a run in the side and some proper service to him instead of coming on to chase shadows for 5 minutes once all our midfielders are knackered, he will look a different player and who knows. If he's still rubbish in January, look to offload and upgrade then, but for now I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.

Moore, admittedly, is looking a bit past his best but is a decent enough backup, and now that Brewster's (presumably) slung his hook that leaves a space in the first team squad for Oné to potentially have his breakthrough season.
 
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