Currently the joint-lowest scoring team in the Premier League, Middlesbrough have sought to bolster their meagre attack by signing themselves a new frontman.
Unfortunately, they’ve gone and plucked Rudy Gestede – a striker with a grand total of five Premier League goals to his name – from the fringes of Aston Villa’s squad and handed over £6million for the privilege.
After completing a medical this morning, the 28-year-old has signed three-and-a-half-year deal…
CONFIRMED | #Boro have completed the signing of @RudyGestede from @AVFCOfficial! 📝✍
Full story – https://t.co/CuolrEvkBM #UTB pic.twitter.com/1UhKbOLmDG— Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) January 4, 2017
While we’re reluctant to write him off instantly, surely Gestede is the very definition of a Championship-level target man?
If Boro are willing to sling high balls into the box then maybe they’ll get some change out of him in a pinch, but that hardly sounds like an Aitor Karanka tactic.
We shall see.