i think that sats is just a bit too massaged to big up sturridge. Take a look at the leading goal scorer chart however. Van Persie Man Utd 25 Suarez Liverpool 23 Bale Tottenham 20 Benteke Aston Villa 19 Michu Swansea 18 Ba Chelsea 15 Lampard Chelsea 15 Berbatov Fulham 14 Lambert Southampton 14 Lukaku West Brom 14 Dzeko Man City 13 Walcott Arsenal 13 Cazorla Arsenal 12 Rooney Man Utd 12 Aguero Man City 11 Defoe Tottenham 11 Fellaini Everton 11 Fletcher Sunderland 11 Giroud Arsenal 11 Kone Wigan 11 Le Fondre Reading 11 Sturridge Liverpool 11 Tevez Man City 11 League goals only. Lets put sturridge in context, Aguero has missed a lot of games but sturridge has as many goals as him! He matches tevez too both key city players.... Hes got just about as many as any arsenal player despite them playing all year and he has not.... Michu is talked of as the greatest singing ever but utter flopped second half.. 18 goals for him.. sturridge is not far behind him is he? Fletcher cost sunderland the same fee as sturridge, sunderland have mcclean and johnson to provide ammo yet struggled. Sturridge has as many as this guy in a short period. Lukaku is chelsea's big hope and out on loan he's got 14 swapping round with Long in a side not far off us even seeing they've given up chasing us. He's got 14. Sturrdige is another hat trick away form him. all in all the minutes per goal is nice and all it puts sturridge baove the top players which aint right but just comparing what he's done just by total of goals you can really see how impressive an impact he's made
Not meaning to piss in your pot MITO but if your going to look at league goals only then Sturridge has ten. The eleventh was against Stags
forgive me for copying form the BBC website. I will believe you sooner than them anyway. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/top_scorers there you go! EPSN http://espnfc.com/stats/scorers/_/league/eng.1/barclays-premier-league?cc=5901 also puts him on 11....
He scored for Chelsea against Spurs in the league this year, so 11 for the League is correct, he's got 10 league goals for us since the move.. Stato-out!
nice one Jb, thanks for that. Like i said i'd sooner believe someone on here than the beeb rags at this point. nice to also know the points i made as just as valid as a result!
Ironically, I was basing it on BBC figures too. However, I have just found it so that I could paste a link and they have now changed it to eleven in the league, twelve in total Edit:... Ah, that could be it. I looked at 'current club' first time around and 'this season' just now
Good thread. He has actually got a better finish than Suarez. He's a natural goalscorer. Couple this with Suarez all round ability to do everything (and score!), and add Coutinho then it looks great. Depth is important though, no use having a great first 11 with no back up - this has hindered us a lot in the last 6-8 years.
A better indication is this MITO: Daniel Sturridge has scored a goal every 105.7 minutes in the Premier League this season - the best ratio in the Premier League.
It's just a shame that we didn't manage to bring him in during the summer when Rodgers was trying to get him on loan. He needs to carry it on next year but I think the fact that Suarez is out for first 4 games means Sturridge will know he'll be the main man at the start and if he performs well, then it will make it hard for Rodgers to leeave him out when Suarez is back. Will be good to see Suarez, Sturridge & Coutinho all lined up together for a few games on the bounce to really see what they can do. We could almost then play 2 DM's to provide that extra protection that we used to have under Benitez.
ah but that is not so impressive if you think how few minutes he got to play and then you still have to wonder if he had to play every week would he stay fit, these are unknowns. This is why i thought it was better to just compare totals and show how big names stack up against what he's gone and done. I mean someone could have played 3 games, scored on hat trick and beaten that stat. He's matched some really big names, he's next big test is not to be made out to be better than suarez but to play a full season cos so far he's not done that for anyone. If he stays relatively injury free (seems susceptible to strains and pulls) then i think he can go for 20 goals and if its 1 every 2 games and 120mins everyone on here will be delighted. a lot of potential still elf tin him i hope.
I think with the lack of minutes the fact he's scored loads in excellent. Now he's getting a fair crack at it with Suarez out he looks match fit, which he hasn't a lot of the time. He's got work to do, but he has done well.
