Even they wouldn't offer the **** £45,000-a-week, and they're far from adept when it comes to paying players an appropriate wage.
The case for a big target man was exemplified best in our game at Sheff. Utd. on boxing day. They were utter **** for about an hour but suddenly from nothing, at 2-0 down they just banged it up to Ched Evans (they literally crossed it from somewhere near the halfway line) and he scored. If you have a striker who can score a header from that angle it gives you a totally different option. If the opposition know that you have no option up front, they can sit back knowing that your winger has to hit the byline before their cross can work. How many times did teams sit back in their penalty area against us last season? They saw that they could give us loads of time on the hlfway line because we couldn't do anything from there, and just pile everyone behind the ball. If you have a big lad to hoof it to, they have to close you down to cut the service off. It changes the way they defend completely, which is exactly what we missed last season.
"Spanish people are relatively small in stature". Let's see if anyone can answer the following - Which country recently won the world basketball championships, was it - a) England b) Spain.
tbf it's all to do with a back-up plan isn't it? Barca do not need one because plan A is almost faultless, our isn't...
