Striker Stats (a bit pointless but who cares)

Lovenkrands EPL starts - 7 Goals - 3 Strikerate - 0.4 goals per game
Best EPL starts - 7 Goals - 5 Strikerate - 0.7 goals per game
Shola EPL starts - 13 Goals - 4 Strikerate - 0.3 goals per game
Nolan EPL starts - 23 Goals - 10 Strikerate - 0.4 goals per game
Ben Arfa(not including city) EPL starts - 2 Goals - 1 Strikerate - 0.5 goals per game

And Leon Best has a better Strikerate than Judas. Lovenkrands Strikerate should improve now he has found his scoring touch. Ben Arfa is close to a return and Nolan has a good Strikerate for a midfielder. Best has the Best Strikerate and hopefully he will keep it up. Also we have the youth and experience of Ranger and Kuqi who have let to start a game but they will most likely bang the goals in if they do start.

 

With 11 games left you never know, Best might go on and score another 5... Then who's laughing for 1 million..

 

I've got to say that after selling Carroll (our only quality striker) I feared we simply would not have enough up front to score the goals neccessary to stay up! After last nights superb result I'm now a lot more confident that we DO have enough to get us the results to stop up. I'm still not sure how many more goals our strikers can score, but when we have a defence and midfield that can create excellent chances then we WILL score goals, and maybe we can look a few places above our current position and consider Europe next season rather than the Championship

While I definately think we need two quality strikers during the summer, I've also been convinced we can score goals with the players we have

 

Hopefully we dont become so convicing that Mike Ashley see's no need to invest in the Summer...

 

That would not suprise me in the slightest, it's already given him an excuse to sell Carroll without replacing him! Such a shame, as we now have a good defence and midfield, IMO all it would take to challenge for Europe would be two quality strikers.