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    How Paul Warne survives!

    in Derby County Forum

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    Compo at £2m - Clowes doesn't have really any choice or we blow the business plan

    He invested in stability for long term - and Warne was his choice

    Afraid we are stuck with him

    Many a chairman would have pulled the trigger by now. I was shaking my head again today

    Im afraid all we have to do is get behind him and the team and hope it gets better

    Embargo soon will be behind us.

    Tough gig for Ram fans but. - better days are ahead hopefully

     

    Chrissy Martin

    in Transfer Forum

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    On 26/01/2023 at 10:03, duncanjwitham said:

    We had a pacey option down the centre (Osula), and we never really used him, because he couldn't do anything else that a modern striker needs to do. He was quick, and he could dribble and finish, and that was about it.

    We mainly are playing 1 up front, and even when we play Collins and McGoldrick together, they're far from a traditional front 2.  So any striker we bring in has to be able to play as a lone striker, which means they have to be able to do at least a few out of: being a physical presence up front, occupying defenders, holding the ball up, linking the play, winning headers etc.  Otherwise you're basically toothless up front and your entire system doesn't work.  There's a reason why small, quick strikers (think Michael Owen, Jermaine Defoe types) barely exist in modern football (as regular starters anyway) - they can't play up front on their own, and if you play a front 2, you get outnumbered somewhere else. 

    So if we want a pacey option, we're looking at Ivan Toney types - big, strong, physical and quick at the same time.  And good luck finding one of those for free in January.  Any player that's big, strong and quick and can score goals is going to be playing regular football somewhere already.

    And for what it's worth, we have bags of pace in the team already - 4 quick wingers, and the likes of Knight and Sibley breaking from deeper.  What we need is craft in the final third (i.e. someone to actually play passes or create opportunities for those guys).  We only really have McGoldrick, plus Bird and Hourihane from deeper.  A striker that can either hold the ball up, or drop off and play passes, would make a much bigger difference than another guy that can run quickly.

    Good post - the answer isn’t Chris Martin 

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