Are Newcastle Looking At A Chris Wood Loan Move?

The Chronicle is reporting that Newcastle are considering a loan move for our former ST Chris Wood.

If this has any legs it just shows how far Newcastle have fallen back over the past 15 months or so.

Plus; after the huge outlay on Woltemade, Wissa and Pardo in the last two summer windows the very thought that we could be thinking of a move for Wood just shows how shockingly bad our ST recruitment has been.

Wood did his best here but our style of play didn't suit him at all as his goalscoring stats showed compared to the service he got when he moved to Nottingham Forest.

If Jaissle believes Wood may be the answer to our striker issues now what does that say about the style of play he wants?

We only discussed yesterday how one of the qualities of a lone ST in 4231 was pace; Woods didn't have any when he was 24 never mind 34.

Is he expecting Elanga - as he did at Forest - and Barnes to sling cross after cross into the box?

And, does he believe that a player no longer a first team choice at Forest is the man to lead the line for Newcastle?

The word now is that Ivan Toney won't be on the January agenda no doubt because of the huge wages needed to persuade him to leave the Saudi money trail.

We'll wait and see if the Chris Wood rumour gathers momentum but surely Jaissle and Wilson can target strikers - and especially on loan - who would be better suited to 4231 and a livelier option up front than the pedestrian Wood.

What do you think?

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