Why I dont want a striker from abroad.

All this talk of Gervinho, Sow, Van Wolfswinkel etc. Is to me, the kind of path we need to avoid going down. Alfonso Alves anyone? Steve Marlet? Rebrov? Mutu? Kezman? Even Chamakh this season imo although he was a free. The list is endless. I think we need to buy a striker who is proven in the Prem for next season. Id happily see us pay over the odds to get Sturridge on the evidence of his move to Bolton, or even someone like Kevin Doyle would do a good job for us in my opinion. Any other suggestions of players from the Prem who you think would cut it at us? That Demba Ba is being brandished about a bit he looks a tidy player.

 

This is what i've been saying for the past 3 months mate!

Sturridge and Ba.

Where have you been?

 

For every flop there's a success though.

If they've genuinley got quality, they will come good sooner or later after moving to this league.

 

Them 2 would be brilliant but highly unlikely Sturridge will leave chelsea unless he wants to. However Ba is a good possibility so I would offer around 5-8 million for him if the Hammers go down.

 

Yeh I guess for every bad apple theres a good one, however I think that France and in particulally Holland are notorious for bad Prem signings. Even players like Huntellar have struggled out of the Eredivise at times.

 

Mutu scored a fair amount of goals, it was his "diet" which let him down. Kezman was never really given much time either. I do agree to a certain extent. But everyone in the Premier League is over priced these days and clubs are very unwilling to sell their biggest assets to rival clubs.

There have been a lot of flops but you also get very successful deals. Just look at Tiote, one of the buys of the season. Gervinho could easily adapt to the Premier League in my opinion. Our scouting team has proved time and time again that they can find hidden gems out there. I have faith in Graham Carr to find the right players to push us on.

 

Drogba? Cantona? Henry? van Nistelrooy?

Demba Ba? He would've cost a lot less three months ago than he will in three months time.

Ba would be my first choice right now, I also like the look of Gervinho and Llorente. I can't believe you'd rather have Doyle than Gervinho.

 

Chelsea seem to have this habit of turning (world) class strikers into average strikers, Shevchenko, Pizarro, Kezman, Torres, Casseragi*, Sutton. So for every success (Drogba, Zola, Vialli) there are about 10 flops

 

This.

 

Doyle is **** if you ask me <- a poor mans Robbie Keane

would love Llorente here

 

Llorente would be my first choice. But being honest, how likely is that to happen?

 

I don't believe the point he's trying to get across is that he think Gervinho isn't as good as Doyle, i think he's just a bit anxious, like me, of buying from aboard for a large amount of money, and i'm not suprised with the amount of foriegn ****e we've bought.

 

This ^
You can't say that no foreign imports have worked out, but obviously a lot have flopped.
I would like to see Gervinho, more as a winger, and Ivorians have been successful in the prem.

 

Lots of us here want Demba Ba, who 3 months ago was a striker from abroad.

Another striker a few people have mentioned is Odemwingie, who was also a striker from abroad.

The players who have proven themselves at this level cost **** loads of money, Odemwingie would be £8m+ and isnt worth that, if West Ham go down I reckon we could get Ba at a snip. If we get players from abroad and give them time to adjust, settle in and get used to their surroundings we should be fine.

Gervinho should do fine here, most african players seem to hit the ground running in the PL.

 

Every signing is a risk at the end of the day, everyone thought signing Owen for £16m was a good buy, how wrong we were, I think we have to have faith in Graham Carr he aint done a bad job so far in signing Tiote and HBA

 

Dont think you can blame Chelsea for Torres, he just doesn't give a **** anymore. Pizarro and Shevchenko weren't given enough time to adjust and as far as I remember were towards the latter stages of the peak of their careers anyway. As long as the scouting etc. is done properly and the players are given time to adjust hopefully there will be no problem. Have faith in Carr that he can find players suited to our style of play & league.

 

2 quality signings and if we can get a striker to match those 2 then i'm more than happy

 

Marc Janko.

 

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british and proven foreign strikers in the prem = mega money

quality young players from abroad = value for money

and if we hadn't given(granted no choice because of relegation) jose,colo and jonas more time to adapt we'd have called them flops as well there is also a certain mr tiote that is imo worth at least 15m in todays market bought for peanuts

so i'm all for going for foreign players we just need to give them time to settle,some take a while (jonas,jose etc.) others don't (tiote) and besides how long has it took best to show some form
can anyone remember berkamps first season exactly dogshite turned into one of the best foreign players to grace the prem.
the trouble is not that they are rubbish just we don't give them time we expect them to come over here and be an instant success