The Striker Conundrum: Swansea Walk Away from Kone and Search for New Attacking Identity

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The Striker Conundrum: Swansea Walk Away from Kone and Search for New Attacking Identity

The summer transfer window is a time of hope, speculation, and often, disappointment. For Swansea City, this summer has so far delivered a mix of all three. Aft

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[Ringwood]

So have we officially walked away or is this speculation?

 

[bakajack]

We should set them a deadline of start of business tomorrow or move on and tell other clubs what our bid was so that they get low balled.

 

[Bluenile]

It's like a spurned lover, just walk away and forget it. More fish (not the goalkeeping kind) and all that, less time wasted.

 

[TerryPHELAN]

Going back to our old ways it seems, with last minute or panic buys, though I appreciate that we have done some early business, so I’ll give the new owners the benefit of the doubt.
We’ve known all summer that we’re week in the striker department, why not get the business done early?
We’ll make a signing, and the next thing you know, the club are making a statement saying that it’ll take the player 10 games or so to get upto speed, fitness and adapting to how we play. That’ll be nearly 1/4 season gone.

 

[Bluenile]

Going back to our old ways it seems, with last minute or panic buys, though I appreciate that we have done some early business, so I’ll give the new owners the benefit of the doubt.
We’ve known all summer that we’re week in the striker department, why not get the business done early?
We’ll make a signing, and the next thing you know, the club are making a statement saying that it’ll take the player 10 games or so to get upto speed, fitness and adapting to how we play. That’ll be nearly 1/4 season gone.

That glass isn't half full, it's totally empty. I, for one, will await the end of the window, and will hold fire on any signings abilities until they've played a few games. I think your crystal ball has developed a fault. Send it back!

 

[bakajack]

Going back to our old ways it seems, with last minute or panic buys, though I appreciate that we have done some early business, so I’ll give the new owners the benefit of the doubt.
We’ve known all summer that we’re week in the striker department, why not get the business done early?
We’ll make a signing, and the next thing you know, the club are making a statement saying that it’ll take the player 10 games or so to get upto speed, fitness and adapting to how we play. That’ll be nearly 1/4 season gone.

Based on what we as outsiders know of the situation the club's approach to this transfer has absolutely been the right one.

This isn't about last minute panic buys, this is about principles and setting precedents.
Other clubs will know that the new owners and CFO are not mugs to be taken to the cleaners like Coleman was

By all accounts Wycombe have tried every black art in the book to try to get us to offer more, but we gave them our bottom line and if they don't agree quickly we will now completely move on to other targets and they could be left with a player who isn't happy and will be worth half of what they were offered when the window closes.

 

[Ringwood]

Which dark arts have Wycombe done?

 

[KOL]

Which dark arts have Wycombe done?

Not the Rolf Harris kind I hope

 

[bakajack]

Which dark arts have Wycombe done?

The ones you would expect your club to do when trying to maximize profits off a player. Circulated the players availability to everyone else, leak details to the media, etc.

They know we want a striker, especially after we just offloaded two to make room on the books for one and that Kone was supposedly one of our top targets. Similarly the news of the bid for the Hammarby lad may be a smokescreen by ourselves to pressure them into taking the offer or we move on, especially since no one else seems to be getting sucked into a bidding war.

 

[jack_lord]

The ones you would expect your club to do when trying to maximize profits off a player. Circulated the players availability to everyone else, leak details to the media, etc.

They know we want a striker, especially after we just offloaded two to make room on the books for one and that Kone was supposedly one of our top targets. Similarly the news of the bid for the Hammarby lad may be a smokescreen by ourselves to pressure them into taking the offer or we move on, especially since no one else seems to be getting sucked into a bidding war.

Maybe the other teams have decided not to get in to a bidding war because they have had a look at him and thought that he isn't really all that

 

[Ringwood]

The ones you would expect your club to do when trying to maximize profits off a player. Circulated the players availability to everyone else, leak details to the media, etc.

They know we want a striker, especially after we just offloaded two to make room on the books for one and that Kone was supposedly one of our top targets. Similarly the news of the bid for the Hammarby lad may be a smokescreen by ourselves to pressure them into taking the offer or we move on, especially since no one else seems to be getting sucked into a bidding war.

I see that as standard stuff. They value Kone at £5M and are standing firm which i don't have an issue with whether it's a true value is another debate.

If anybody tables £5M then an agreement can be made. Nobody to my knowledge has tabled that yet and with 4 weeks left of the window, they may gamble on a bid war or a club desperate for a striker by the end of August.

 

[Nocountryforoldjack]

Not the Rolf Harris kind I hope

No it was more of the jim'll fix it kind.... If that helps any?

 

[Nocountryforoldjack]

The ones you would expect your club to do when trying to maximize profits off a player. Circulated the players availability to everyone else, leak details to the media, etc.

They know we want a striker, especially after we just offloaded two to make room on the books for one and that Kone was supposedly one of our top targets. Similarly the news of the bid for the Hammarby lad may be a smokescreen by ourselves to pressure them into taking the offer or we move on, especially since no one else seems to be getting sucked into a bidding war.

True but it'll but the same for any decent striker we want, what we need is a striker pretending to be shit but it's secretly amazing innit

 

[JackSomething]

True but it'll but the same for any decent striker we want, what we need is a striker pretending to be shit but it's secretly amazing innit

Joel Piroe Mark II then.