Devils Advocate: Do we need to make a major striker signing priority?

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With much talk around the Club that Füllkrug is impressing, has got himself very fit and is raring to go with a fantastic attitude, and with Potter seemingly likely to play 3-5-2, do we need a major striker signing?

Likelihood right now is that our (somewhat) expensive striker signing from last Summer (Ze German) goes in to the season as our 1st choice with Bowen along side him in a 3-5-2.

On that basis, as striker that comes in either has to play second fiddle to Fülle, or relegate him to the bench.  And all at a time when we have limited funds, an immobile midfield, and we struggle to create chances for a striker anyway.

If we go with Fülle as first choice, and work on the basis he'll miss a few games but won't get catastrophically injured to the point he's not worth having or considering in the squad, then a 'backup' or rotation striker fits the bill, with funds saved for other areas.

Probably leaves us looking at the free agent market (someone like Wilson) or the 3rd choice squad player loan market. 

Investing big sums for someone who is 1st choice level to sit on the bench most weeks makes little sense and we're not cash rich enough to accumulate that way. 

So maybe, just maybe, Wilson is an ugly choice that fits a short term need. Offering a year with an option with mostly performance related remuneration could be explained, taking the emotion and how you feel about the individual out of it. Optics are terrible. Logic....maybe not SO bad.

Alternatively, it's probably loan to buys, for players who are we're on the bench elsewhere, and have been pushed off of it by a new signing and would see our bench as an upgrade.

And it's probably hard to find one of them who is better than Wilson (on the days he's fit) or you'd rather see given time over Marshall, Guilherme, or even someone like Soucek pushed high, or Cornet (if we can't get shot).

So am I fan of Wilson? No. But can I see why he might be seen as an appropriate stop gap at a time when GK and midfield require bigger surgery? Quite possibly.

[Far Cough UKunt]

I don't trust Fullkrug, he'll probably invade Poland first.