Huddersfield Town owner Kevin Nagle sent clear striker transfer demand for January 2025 | OneFootball

We asked our Huddersfield Town fan pundit if he had a demand for his club's owner in January

This article is part of Football League World's 'Terrace Talk' series, which provides personal opinions from our FLW Fan Pundits regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

Huddersfield Town owner Kevin Nagle has been told to sign a goalscorer who's capable of scoring 15 goals or more a season when the January transfer window opens.

The Terriers have made a decent start to the League One campaign and sit just outside the play-off places, but an embarrassing defeat to National League side Tamworth in the FA Cup has somewhat overshadowed that.

Huddersfield are looking to make an immediate return to the Championship after relegation last season, and their current top goalscorer this season is midfielder Ben Wiles, who has found the back of the net on five occasions.

With the Terriers' striker options failing to be particularly prolific in front of goal, our Huddersfield fan pundit believes that owner Nagle needs to sign someone who can be relied upon to lead the line in January, and who will also score at least 15 goals a season.

Huddersfield Town to sign a striker in the January transfer window

We asked our Huddersfield fan pundit, Graeme Rayner, what demand he has for owner Nagle in January, and it's clear that he feels a new striker signing is needed.

Speaking to Football League World, Graeme said: "I would say let’s actually go and buy a striker who is capable of leading the line and, most importantly, finding the net 15 times or more a season.

“Someone who is going to stay fit too, because we’ve probably got that sort of striker at the club in someone like Rhys Healey, but he seems to be injured more than he’s fit, and that’s probably why he was made available to us.

“We’d have hoped that Bojan Radulovic would have that ability but it looks like he hasn’t quite got it, and Danny Ward’s days are numbered because of his age and because he’s never really been that sort of striker, he’s always been more of a tenacious, hassling defenders sort of striker who was converted from a winger in his early playing days.

“Josh Koroma could probably do that at League One level, but we’ve seen he can’t do that at Championship level and after that we’re looking at Callum Marshall, who’s on loan and not our player, and players that can’t cut it, like Kian Harratt and Kieran Phillips who have been out on loan.

“We need a talismanic sort of striker that we can get behind. We thought we may have had that in the summer window with Joe Taylor from Luton and there’s a chance that could be resurrected, but if not, someone like that I would say.”

Huddersfield Town need their strikers to step up

A striker who will score 15 goals a season will cost Nagle some considerable money if he were to buy one, but Huddersfield need their current strikers to step up and start scoring goals.

Danny Ward, Freddie Ladapo and Rhys Healey haven't scored in the league this season, while Callum Marshall, who was is on loan from West Ham, has scored two, and Bojan Radulovic has scored one.

This clearly isn't enough for a side targeting promotion to the Championship, and regardless of whether Nagle recruits a striker in January, more is needed from their current options.

Josh Koroma, who is a winger by trade, has operated up front on a number of occasions and has scored four goals in the league, and it's been up to him and midfielder Wiles to provide Michael Duff's side with the goals this season.

While Duff would love Nagle to provide him with a player who can score 15 goals in January, he'll have to make do with the players he's got for now, and he needs to see more from them in the coming weeks as they look to put the Tamworth embarrassment behind them.