Free Agent Strikers The Imps Could Still Sign
Bold claim – were it not for injuries, Lincoln City would be a Championship club.
Ok, I’ll rephrase that – were it not for injuries, Lincoln City would have been a Championship club in 2021/22. We’d have been promoted to the second tier automatically had Liam Bridcutt, Tom Hopper and Jorge Grant not all picked up injuries at the same time in the final months of the 2020/21 season.
Injuries are once again threatening to overshadow a team full of promise. News that Tyler Walker and Ben House are out for long spells brought back some awful feelings of despair when I heard, despair that the best-laid plans of a club on the rise have, for now, been set back by bloody injuries. Losing one striker, sure, that I can see, but two? Both for long spells? It stings.
I genuinely felt we had a good chance of sustaining a top-ten push, maybe a run to the top six, but to go two or three months without either of our main strikers is going to make that hugely difficult. If Danny Mandroiu’s injury is also longer than expected, we’re going to look very weak up top until the festive period.
It’s at this stage where all the clickbait websites will be presenting you with a list of free agents we could sign to cover the gap. Spoiler alert – I’m not sure that’s a route we’ll go down. Jack Vale should be a couple of weeks away; we have Reeco, who can play centrally, and that should be enough to get us through until November when you’d hope to see Tyler getting back on the grass.
Still, no point in giving those clickbait sites the traffic when I could just list the free-agent strikers from England and Ireland here for you, right? The intention is to show you that despite our predicament, there’s not a huge amount we can do in terms of free players, rather than me suggesting these are the players we’ll be signing.
