Fully agree but I've got a Spurs mate whos forever taking the piss about us taking his castoffs. Wares thin after a while if you follow.
In theory all 4 strikers are available However how many teams will take them at the price asked for by Levy, who expects to break even as a minimum My ranking from best to worst on PL only would be Pav/Defoe/Crouch/Keane. Keane no longer cuts it at PL level, Crouch is best in Europe, while Defoe struggles with staying onside and decided it was a good idea to tweet that he had a spring in his step the day after we lost to Man City.
Seems fair, and i'd probs have agreed with the order (although you know better than me!) The option, of course, is Pav's partner for Russian, Pavel Pogrebnyak, they are strangely similar, looks, build, style and both left footed. Could be an alternative.
It's a funny one for me. He's very good as a lone player for Ghana, but they have their wing players pushing right on, often getting ahead of him, Gyan always looks to have a couple of touches, so in the PL, he often gets closed down. I think he'd work best in a 'little & large' combo, with someone who's good in the air, and who holds the ball up well. Gyan's best trait is his unpredictibility, he does some wonderful things, and he does some laugh out loud terrible things, some of his shots this season have bothered passing 747's more than the goal. That's why an understated player like Pav would be my choice, my first choice all things being equal would be Gignac of Marseille, but we just can't buy a player like that. For Gyan to work as a lone striker, we'd need pacey, top class wingers, combined with Sessegnon to back him. We don't have these players, so he needs a partner, who can play back to goal and hold onto it, he played his best football with Welbeck, and that's because Welbeck's ball retention and ability to find him was magnificent, pre injury.
Thankfully, SNQ dismissed a move for Keane back in January, stating "he's not the type of player we are looking for".... So we can all sleep easy on that one
