...........are both increasingly looking like our next 2 signings. Seems as though Orta is determined to bring Gestede to ER ( he likes him as sign him at Boro) Things is GM likes him too. So will we have to pay over the odds to get him? Also Grot will soon have a medical. Will Grot be seen as a 1st teamer or for U23's?
Also TC has stated Douk will be on his way, looks like to Rangers. So We will need another signing as we are really short of strikers with Wood & Attonsson leaving too.
Or...........as you know TC was a striker himself, maybe he thinks he can turn Roofe into a marksman?
Gestede & Grot & an other?
posted on 23/8/17
comment by Jaz63 (U8369)
posted 22 minutes ago
There's a few comments on here this morning playing down our superb win last night against L2 opposition. I think we can rightly feel encouraged by the scoreline, and by Roofe's hat trick. How many times in the last 15 years have we stumbled against lower league or non-league opposition? And last night, they scored first.
Usually we have scraped by or been dumped out (Histon, ffs!), bottling it completely - but last night, the scoreline was emphatic, as it should have been playing an inferior side. We now seem to have the confidence to do the biz. For me, it's a sign of the positive regeneration of our great club under the AR/VO/TC regime. 'Underperformers' like Roofe are now bagging hatttricks...and goals are coming from midfielders as well as strikers. This is all just brilliant, in my view. It's amazing what an immediate and enormous impact the new regime seems to be having on the club.
What a turnaround we are witnessing! I reckon we're going to remember this season for a long time as the start of something really good!
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agree
posted on 23/8/17
The turnaround needs to conclude with promotion otherwise the prem predators will take the likes of saiz and alioski off us next season
posted on 23/8/17
Know someone who spoke to Orta yesterday and he said they had virtually sorted the strikers they were after, he said Gestede wasn't one of them, could have been a smokescreen but don't think so,
posted on 23/8/17
Adritk, I hope you're right cos I'm just seeing gestede' name bandied about all over the place...
posted on 23/8/17
Grot we know we are getting as long as medical goes ok, 2nd would be Long for me or Ings but both would want a pretty penny in wages, can but dream
posted on 23/8/17
wont be british based striker
i reckon gestede is a smokescreen to keep prices down ad orta annoys boro by doing it
the new striker will be around 25 years old with a good moneyball record in europe, hungry and a target man
like the rest bar anita
posted on 23/8/17
Preston striker Jordan Hugill being linked too.
posted on 23/8/17
like grot for now or the future but would avoid gestede like the plague.
posted on 23/8/17
There is a spanish striker we are rumoured tonne after a real classy player apprenently. Very much like Mirco Antenucci.
posted on 23/8/17
Ru de Thomas i think
Recognise him from FIFA career mode