Forlan has more experience playing as the main man up top, he's not as fast but his movement in the box is a lot better, I can see him getting on to a lot more of Lennon and Bale's crosses than Defoe did last season(I counted 1 which was scuffed straight at Green). When we got into the top 4 we played a lot on the counter, last season teams made it more difficult for us to do that and I expect that to continue so I'd rather we had a technically superior player than a speedster.
Are you sure that was the reason we didn't do as well last season, it had nothing to do with the fact that Defoe was out of action for a long part of it so we couldnn't employ the same on the counter as fast as we didn't have a fleet footed forward? Whilst I agree that Forlan is technically superior, I just don't think that he is the answer, either long or short term. He's not the player he was in the world cup, watching him in La Liga was painful compared to his golden summer.
What i want to know is why didn't Forlan make a go at Manure,prehap's he's not up to the pl pace and Muddy ,cold winter grounds
96 goals for Forlan at club level in the last 4 seasons suggests he is good enough for Spurs in my book. He wouldn't be my 1st choice but for a club that can't offer CL next season we can't expect much better than him.
Forlan is the top striker we have been looking for? If the pinnacle of our ambition is signing a thirty-something, past his best player, who has already failed once in the Prem, then we are going backwards and might as well say goodbye to Modric et al now!
Getting in Forlan, Rossi and Leandro would be a dream come true. Leandro we could ease in and hopefulyl he would learn off the experience of Forlan and even Rossi. Roissi and Forlan would be our main strikers with Leandro filling in like Sandro did at the begining. Rossi in for Defoe, Forlan in for Keane and Leandro in for Pav. I would perfer Pav to stay but i have a funny feeling Redknapp only wants to keep Crouch.
See now, Forlan for Keane. That I would get, but I don't think wholesale changes upfront are going to happen. Keane and one other out is a possibility, but not 3 out 3 in. Too much destabilisation.
When it comes to our strikeforce, we're already destablised. Our wingers are crossing into an unmanned box, Crouch can't win headers against defenders half his size, they're all missing absolute sitters. Its been painful to watch. A bit of destablisation is the least of our worries, IMO. Our midfield are immense and pull all the strings. All we just need a striker who can finish the countless chances that are being offered to them on a plate.
I agree with Solidspur. Our striker force was absolutely appalling last season. I wrote on the original 606 that I would rather we had any three other strikers, because they could not have done any worse for us in the PL. It also made me extremely angry that Harry persisted with Defoe (until the very end, when it was all too late), but wasn't prepared to give Dos Santos his chance. Even with his addiction to nightclubbing, I cannot imagine that Dos Santos would have fared any worse than any of our three other so-called strikers. I don't think that even Levy and Harry believe they can risk taking a chance with the same three clowns up front, next season.
We don't necessarily have to play with two up front OODB, as Kranjcar could fit well into van der Vaart's role, but I think that our forward line does need a fair bit of work. None of our current strikers suits this system. There are three ways around that, in my opinion. Buy new strikers, work hard with the ones that we've got to adapt them to it or change the system. All have problems.
You're not wrong, but wholesale change just won't happen, I don't think. At best it'll be two out, two in. And Niko will be gone too.
Kranjcar probably will go, but that doesn't mean that we won't replace him. I think that Marin could do a great job in that position and I'd love to see us go after him. I really hope that we get to see Modric, Kranjcar and van der Vaart play in the same side before he goes, though. Keane's a goner, so it's far from impossible that at least one more of our strikers will go. I'm not 100% sure that any of them are safe. Redknapp seemed to lose faith in all of them and at the end of the season Pavlyuchenko was almost his favourite, which is bizarre, as he seemed to be on the way out.
