Aceface wrote:We don't need anything drastic. It really does come down to having zero goals from the front, it's putting immense pressure on everyone else - Payet and the defence especially.
A bog-standard PL forward will get you a goal every third game, and even someone with a fairly mediocre conversion rate like Carroll once every 4.
Given we're coming up to a dozen games now, 3 or 4 goals in the right games and we're about where we were last season. We don't need an Icardi to get that, just someone with a modicum of finishing skill.
This
We need to stop chasing unrealistic targets and just buy someone who has experience of leading the line in English style football and will score now and again. They don't need to be amazing to dig us out of this hole, just half decent (and not injury prone)
Lacazette is not going to come to West Ham in January. The teams in and around us at the bottom are not going to sell us their best players (i.e Defoe, Sigurddson)
We need to identify realistic targets, who have experience of English football, and get them done quickly in January. We need a couple of players who can hit the ground running with the aim of ensuring we don't get relegated. Pie in the sky chasing of a higher grade player can wait till Summer
Yes, that is all a bit depressing and not exactly ambitious. but, unfortunately, that is the situation we now find ourselves in. so we have to act accordingly