Just seen that both have been released by their respective clubs. Both could do a job, what do you guys think?
Petric is a good player. He's 32, so not in his best years anymore. Scored 5 Goals in 23 games last season, which is not really brilliant. But since he's free he might be an option, don't know about his wages though.
Fulham fan in peace. Petric is a good player but is really injury prone. After a promising start, he missed a significant portion of the season and never really seemed to regain match fitness. He could do a job for you, but shouldn't be given anything more than a one year deal. Given that situation, I would expect him to return to Germany rather than the Premier League.
Petric was a good player. Really put a shift in for Fulham. I'm quite surprised they let him go in all honesty. Di Santo is good, but he'd just be a Premier League version of McLean/Simpson. He's a striker and therefore should score goals. He doesn't score goals at all. Something like 1 goal every 8 games.
We need a goal scorer in our team, and their strike records in recent years wouldn't fill me with confidence. Di Santo in particular - 13 goals in 97 games for Wigan in all comps. Not great. Of the two, i'd certainly rather get Petric.
Thought exactly the same thing. His hold up play is good, but when you're at this level, you need players in that position to produce goals, not just wait for somebody else to score. Hold up play counts for **** all in terms of your final points total.
Well no, you need to score goals to win games, but you can win a game without having a player that only holds up the ball.
Franco Di Santo is awful. Even Leeds fans are on about signing him Why replicate the same situation we had this year with Simpson/McLean? We've said all along that Simpson and McLean work hard but don't do what a striker is supposed to do; score goals. The reason we've been amongst the League's lowest scorers for 3/4 Seasons is because we only ever have 1 or 2 players that score a decent amount of goals (i.e. Fryatt and Koren). You need a lot of forwards/midfielders who can score in order to succeed. If we get Di Santo, I'll be pissed off because that's no statement of intent at all.
You're unlikely, but it's not impossible. I suppose I'm exaggerating a bit; of course he'll score goals some times, but I'd have thought the ability to hold up a ball shouldn't be a players sole purpose. A strikers job is to score goals, holding up the ball should come naturally as part of their play and shouldn't be the only reason they are on the pitch.
I hate that assumption. You'll never see a manager complain that his team won but it was the wrong players scoring. Ourselves and Cardiff this season proved that it really doesn't matter who gets the goals as long as someone does. The idea that strikers should be judged solely on the number of goals they score is incredibly simplistic. Football fans over complicate most things but when it comes to strikers they over-simplify it to the point that the most talented striker in the world could be **** if he only gets 7 goals in a season.
I think you would find it hard to disagree that had we a player who was more capable of scoring goals than our front line players, such as a Rhodes or Murray (but don't get hung up on who exactly), we would have scored a more goals and probably been champions. Other than that, it doesn't matter who does score goals, but some people are more likely to score goals than two or three people who are pretty good and score occasionally given a hatful of scoring positions as we have had this season. Up until the last month or so we were getting 20 odd scoring opportunities per match and struggling to score.
But surely by their definition the striker is there to put the ball in the goal as their job. The midfielders are there to provide support to both the defence and the strikers and chip in with goals when necessary. Of course it doesn't matter who puts the ball in the net in the context of winning the game, but if a striker plays up front for the whole season and finishes with two goals, he's obviously going to be dropped in favour of somebody better, regardless of whether he was holding the ball up or not. I'm not saying hold up play isn't important to tactics, it is, but a striker who can score goals consistently is always going to get picked over a player who can't but can hold up the ball well.
