Dexter Blackstock

Looks like we have seen the end of Dexter's stay at Loftus Road as i read in the London Lite Luigi is going to offload him at the end of the season after failing to impress with his goal tally this season.

It is a shame because he seems like a nice enough blocke and his 14 goals last year were vital to our championship survival but he has failed to cut the mustard this year and doesn't look good in comparison to Ageymang or Vine.

Dexter would be a good buy for anyone in the lower half of the championship like Colchester or Scunthorpe because he will score and is is decent in the air or on the deck.

It is unfortunate because only recently he looked like he could be the next big thing, an under 21, scoring loads. I even heard we recieved and rejected £2million bids from Derby and Sunderland. Sadly, we will probably be lucky to recieve half that figure now, both because of Blackstock's poor form and our new financial position.

It looks as if Blackstock will be dropped from the 11 with the return of Ephraim and Vine moved up front to partner Ageymang and therfore Dexter will probably be used as a substitute or reserve for the rest of the season.

The one thing that concerns me is we have already offloaded Moore, Nygaard and Baidoo. We got rid of Gallen and Furlong last year and Nardiello is on loan and probably will never be returned. If Dexter leaves we will be left with just Ageymang (whose goals have dried up), the kid Balanta and Vine (who is a great playmaker but not a 20 goal a season man.) This means we are relying on the goal-scoring capabilities of our midfielders too much recently and without valuable goal scoring contributions form Ephraim, Leigertwood, Buzsaky and Rowlands we could be in trouble.

Therefore, we need a new stiker. We should have attempted to steal Leroy Lita from Charlton or Earnshaw from Derby. We will see how much Bernie and Flavio will give towards this before next season.