Thierno Barry

[Paddockoldie]

I agree with the give him time etc, but we ain't scoring enough goals with what we have. We should have tried to buy a goal ready striker and looked at potential later on

[Cereal Killer]

I agree with the give him time etc, but we ain't scoring enough goals with what we have. We should have tried to buy a goal ready striker and looked at potential later on

Missed out on Danny Ings though

[Paddockoldie]

Wash yer mouth

[Free Agent]

Chris Woods might be available in January

[Shogun]

Chris Woods might be available in January

Moyes and TheRam would have him in a heartbeat

[brap2]

We should have enough to be safe anyway, let's just put our faith in the lad and develop him.

[Fynci]

It's all going to go 'a bit Kean' if we aren't careful. I think he shows promise, and his involvement seems to create space for others. He is not the finished article, but we were never going to get a complete player in this age profile and price.

[TheRam]

Moyes and TheRam would have him in a heartbeat

Good goalkeeping coach back in the day so can see moyes wanting to get him back in as they’ve worked together before.

[AjaxAndy]

Honestly if he just worked a bit harder off the ball I'd give him a starting spot every week to let the rest develop.

Hard to get in to a game if you're never really buzzing about putting pressure on people and contesting physical battles.

If he can start doing that and giving the CBs a harder time he'd get a lot of leeway with other stuff he's a bit raw at.

[Toddacelli]

Is there a template in this league of how to develop a player like this? Does it even work? Or should they be out on loan smashing the nets in a lower English league before they are Prem-ready?

[AjaxAndy]

Is there a template in this league of how to develop a player like this? Does it even work? Or should they be out on loan smashing the nets in a lower English league before they are Prem-ready?

Won't be a popular opinion but having someone like Big Dunc on the coaching staff specifically for players like Barry would help... The work he did with Anichebe to turn him in to a great hold up player was very noticeable.

Doesn't have to be Dunc specifically, but someone skilled in teaching shielding, physical duels, hold up play as a specialised skillset.

[Toddacelli]

I can not think of many young strikers (9’s) in the Prem. Evan Ferguson, Liam Delap, Rasmus Hojlund?

This is why I was asking about other teams who had successfully done it before.

There may be some elite young strikers who can walk right in occasionally, but developing a young number 9 during a Premier League season is a tough ask.

[Kerryblueboy]

Watched some of chermiti last night for rangers hardly got a kick in 70 odd minutes he was on looked miles off it

[MayorFarnham]

Our best hope is if one of the big boys have a surplus they are willing to let go out on loan and during the loan they decide we could be a decent option.
Replicate how we ended up with Lukaku.
Otherwise we are just taking gamble after gamble and we have no track record of finding and developing strikers.

[Lazarou II]

Have we any record at all of developing any sort of classy strikers? I can't really think of any in my lifetime.

Rooney was a freak and didn't really need developing.