[betterthanbaird]

It would make absolutely no sense for Chelsea to sell him anyway they'll send him out on loan to a Premier League team. He won't be sold
I personally think they'll test him out on loan at a premier league side before making a judgement & I don't think we'd spend £8M on a unproven striker anyway

We spent £6 million on the unproven Victor Anichebe and £10 million on the PL-untested Brown Ideye. If we could offload Anichebe, we should stop messing about and go for Charlie Austin.

I don't think we actually paid anything like those prices which were reported in the press i think Anichebe was about £3.5M (still too much!) and Ideye not a lot more with the rest of it being performance related add-ons and its hard to see us paying out anymore money for them. I couldn't just imagine Chelsea's reaction if we say to them we'll give you £3M now and the other £5M if he's any good
Whatever happens we've got to get it right this Summer we can't afford to be so reliant on Berahino (if he's still here) we definitely need a natural finisher and probably a 'Pulis' Type, As i said above i would go for Jordan Rhodes as long as the price wasn't to daft he's a natural finisher and always seems to find himself in the right place a knack which can't be taught for me he'd hit double figures as will Saido

I agree with most of Tom's post. Either one very good striker or bring in 2, I'd like to have 4 at the end of the window. I think Charlie Austin will aim higher than us personally, Swansea or Southampton maybe.