Stoke striker Sidibe joins Owls on loan

i just posted downstairs 26 goals in 186 appearances for stoke is not a proven goalscorer they are more like midfielder stats

picky picky i'm in the living room which is downstairs before i was in the bedroom which is upstairs. sorry that's as witty as it gets today mate. agreed though what an awesome partnership that will be. bring back Burton and Jeffers

Seriously though, this fella's had a catalogue of knee and achilles injuries over the last 2-3 seasons. He hasn't played in front of a crowd for the last two. Is he going to throw himself at the challenge and risk more of the same? Or is he going to ease himself in and after a month hope to convince Pulis he's still worth a place on the Stoke bench? And what about our own strikers in the meantime? Kenwyne would've been a different proposition but in all honesty I'd still have preferred DJ to show more faith in the players already available here, the ones who are fit and raring to go.

We're definitely on the receiving end of some mixed messages here. DJ let it be known there was a 'building project' underway and I'm fine with that if some of our signings were being made solely with one eye on the future. But then he'd have us believe that most of the players who performed so well for us last season simply aren't good enough to adapt to a higher level. But wait a minute, most of our latest batch of recruits haven't played at Championship level either, and those who have are either past their best or look less capable of adapting to this league than the players we already had! As a result he constantly selects the youngsters to fill the gaps and to put it bluntly, they don't look ready to shoulder the burden of responsibility just yet. So to solve the latest crisis he drafts in a 32yr old with serious fitness issues, presumably because he's dissatisfied with the five strikers we already have, and an untried 20yr old to replace the three left backs we've just happened to farm out on loan to other clubs. And if none of that makes any sense then it's probably because of all this wool that's constantly being pulled over our eyes.

Injuries are another thorny issue. How come we aren't kept better informed? Chris Lines picked up a nasty one pre-season and now he's close to a comeback. Good, we've missed him badly. But what about Reda & Lee? Reda's been out for nearly ten weeks and Lee's not far behind him. Ten weeks! Blimey, I've known old ladies recover from hip replacement ops in less time than that. And now it's O'Gradys turn. Is Sidibe's arrival another way of saying we've seen the last of him until he's quietly shipped out to the Dingles in January for an undisclosed fee? I'm sure the same fate already awaits Beevers to Millwall. More transparency needed, less secrecy!