I could name plenty abroad but its never in a million years going to happen. So its almost certain to be a top club reject / youngster or a lower league prospect.

On that basis id go with any of:

Wilfried Bony loan or permanent if City will pay some of his wages
Shane Long permanent
Dominic Solanke on loan
Benik Afobe permanent

Would take Bony or Afobe.

Long might do a stop gap job until someone better was available

Would like Ings if he is capable of being as good as he was

Neymar

Ings on loan
Lookman from Everton loan or perm
Rashford circa 10m loan fee

boatshed bill wrote:Neymar

Think hes just moved. So if hes not available id take kevin doyle.

Shane Long as we absolutely need pace.

Ings on loan.
Shane Long, possibly.
Some unknown 'Michu style' European signing who we sign for a steal and they go on to fire us up the league. We then sell them for £30m next year.

Scott Hogan

What happened to the Crouch rumours?

Ive always quite rated him

Darthlaw wrote:Ings on loan.
Shane Long, possibly.
Some unknown 'Michu style' European signing who we sign for a steal and they go on to fire us up the league. We then sell them for £30m next year.

We could pretty much cherry pick anyone we fancied from Sparta Prague now they are out of the Europa League. Sural could be worth a punt for a start

Shane Long and Danny Ings.

Kodja
Callum Wilson
Volland

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Think hes just moved. So if hes not available id take kevin doyle.

Another missed opportunity.
Sack the board!

ZizkovClaret wrote:We could pretty much cherry pick anyone we fancied from Sparta Prague now they are out of the Europa League. Sural could be worth a punt for a start

Beaten by my favourite serb team. Red Star. With goals by Richmond Boakye. Absolute beast who is on fire. He averages a goal a game for them. Ex Juve. Ghana international. Not saying he is good enough for the prem but might have been worth a gamble on a free as backup.

Take Zapata on loan with a view to a permanent deal.

Bring in a young up coming forward. Don't know who though! Maybe a Che Adams or something.

I think Shane Long would be a good fit. Alternatively Dwight Gayle at Newcastle as I doubt him seeing much action this season at St James.

No idea.

He had a 1 in 3 record for us last season and that won't be easy to replace within our wage structure, particularly given our clear preference for buying known quantities from within the UK.

Shane Long if he was dirt cheap yes please simply for the pace. Doesn't tend to hit double figures so a goal scorer is needed.

Realistically it's hard to throw some names out : Danny Ings on loan would be great if he was anything close to his old self.

Solanke - will be ahead on Ings at Anfield so no.
Callum Wilson - not a prayer but is a better version of Gray in my eyes.

Unrealistic : Moussa Dembele from Celtic - Stepping Stone move only possibilty, test the water at £20m but can't see that at all.

Wages seem to be our major stumbling block. If we are to replace Gray with a like for like we are going to have to bite the bullet and break our wage structure

We need to break our wage structure anyway. Someone on £60k a week is £3.1m a year. Someone on £35k per week (as we pay now) is £1.8m. The difference between the two is peanuts compared to our profits and income.

colne-claret wrote:Take Zapata on loan with a view to a permanent deal.

Bring in a young up coming forward. Don't know who though! Maybe a Che Adams or something.

I thought for a minute you were talking about Emiliano Zapata and Che Guevara. Our own Fidel Castro would be able to mediate on behalf of the Clarets!

(Yes I do know they have a passed to the other side)

Long is an obvious one for pace.

However, if it's Watford we're talking about, let's start talking 'Troy Deeney' again. He's not 100% happy there and he loves Dyche.

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:Shane Long and Danny Ings.

Deal

jedi_master wrote:Shane Long as we absolutely need pace.

scoring record not good enough

Lucas Perez....because I'm deluded and hopeful

Wisdom fella from Watford and long

Just waiting for ABC to come along start a thread saying Agyei should be first choice striker when Gray goes.

We paid £9m for him.

Supposedly Brentford have 20% on any profit therefore they would redeem £1.8m from the deal if it is £18m.

So we return a £7m profit and £16m back to the coffers.

We MUST spend it wisely.

Danny Ings and Shane Long for me too.

We need pace, nouse and some of the X factor that Danny Ings has in abundance.

We don't need the knee surgeries that Danny Ings has in abundance though

Is Danny ings fully fit now?? I thought he was some way off

boatshed bill wrote:Neymar

It would be cheaper to buy out the board and takeover the club than to buy him

"Is Danny ings fully fit now?? I thought he was some way off"

Ings in the Liverpool squad for the Audi Cup

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/fo ... s-13386718" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Vokes - a proper 4-5-1 with two wingers who can cross the ball and let Defour or Hendrick push up from midfield. Vokes scored 10 last season, get some proper crosses in half a dozen times a game and he'll double that.

billyhamilton82 wrote:"Is Danny ings fully fit now?? I thought he was some way off"

Ings in the Liverpool squad for the Audi Cup

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/fo ... s-13386718" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ings wasn't in the matchday squads. These games happened a week ago.

Jorgensen from Feyenoord. 6"3 and won Eredivise with Feyenoord. Ambitious but most probably affordable

I love Vokes. Probably one of my favourite Burnley players ever. But he wont score 20 goals just with a change of style.

billyhamilton82 wrote:We paid £9m for him.

Supposedly Brentford have 20% on any profit therefore they would redeem £1.8m from the deal if it is £18m.

So we return a £7m profit and £16m back to the coffers.

We MUST spend it wisely.

Danny Ings and Shane Long for me too.

We need pace, nouse and some of the X factor that Danny Ings has in abundance.

20% of any profit is£900k.18m-9m =9m profit.

We should treat ourselves to 2 forwards, 1 permanent decent money, 1 younger up-and-coming player, lower league or loanee, both with pace and/or trickery. We've no like-for-like cover for Gray in the squad which was always a weakness, especially when he was knackered after 70 mins. So it's an important replacement to get right and it won't be easy, especially with the time it takes for players to get bedded in and used to our style of play. So lets anticipate some teething problems with the 'marquee' replacement and mitigate that risk by bringing in 2 for 1.

People will be flapping but no-one really liked Gray anyway and we'll find a better replacement who with a bit of technical ability will probably bring more to the team. Bring in 2 for 1 and it will be happy days.

Jimscho wrote:20% of any profit is£900k.18m-9m =9m profit.

20% of £9m is £1.8m.

As for the player we bring in, knowing that Dyche prefers British and Irish players there is a limited pool of availability.
I can't think of a realistic target that is better than Gray that fits that profile.

Ings on loan, plus one of Shane Long or Troy Deeney. Happy days.

It's always reassuring to know that slip ups in grammar, spelling and mathematics won't go unnoticed on this board.

Deeny would be interesting, but wages would be a stumbling block I think.

With the money we have now, you'd think we could afford to look abroad.

I just can't think of anyone in the championship at the moment.

Ings on loan and a young and up and coming striker signed as another option wouldn't be the worst, but we really do need to replace him quickly

Jimscho wrote:20% of any profit is£900k.18m-9m =9m profit.

So that would be 1.8m

Benik Afobe and Shane Long

Blackrod wrote:It's always reassuring to know that slip ups in grammar, spelling and mathematics won't go unnoticed on this board.

In fairness, if you try and correct someone's maths and make an arse of it, you should be pulled up.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Deeny would be interesting, but wages would be a stumbling block I think.

With the money we have now, you'd think we could afford to look abroad.

I just can't think of anyone in the championship at the moment.

Ings on loan and a young and up and coming striker signed as another option wouldn't be the worst, but we really do need to replace him quickly

Deeneys out injured just had a operation

Lancasterclaret wrote:Deeny would be interesting, but wages would be a stumbling block I think.

With the money we have now, you'd think we could afford to look abroad.

I just can't think of anyone in the championship at the moment.

Ings on loan and a young and up and coming striker signed as another option wouldn't be the worst, but we really do need to replace him quickly

Agree with the lack of options with strikers in thr championship. Bringing someone from abroad with our track record doesn't fill me with much confidence though!

plenty of options and we do not need to limit ourselves to what we get for Gray, we can add to it, 30 million is no stretch however as many point out it will be wages which are the limiting factor. However the club do use a bonus structure so it is possible to work on a basic wage with bonuses throughout the season, bigger question is are players willing to take a gamble on joining and getting money based on performances and milestones applied. I would like to think so but some/most will not, they will want the safety of receiving a basic wage regardless of performance of the team as a whole.

Next few weeks will be interesting watching some on here meltdown
looking forward to "the club have no ambition" thread, that's always fun

Benik Afobe is not the required standard

Wilfrid bony....always in the headlines prior to city,scoring goals.its like hes been put out to graize for 3years? SD would get him up to speed and maybe give him some self belief if thats lacking.