After weeks of jibes about having no strikers, let's just tot up how many goals the respective strike forces have scored... Spurs: 1 Arsenal: 0 Chelsea: 0 Liverpool: 0 Man Utd: 0
Liverpool, Arsenal and United have spent about £60mill between them on new strikers and Chelsea have a £50mill striker, which is embarrassing.
define "new" - I hardly think Carroll is a new striker consider we bought him a year and a half ago...
Not really. It just shows we have goals in us everywhere over the pitch. We had a right back scoring and a defensive midfielder. United have several matchwinners in their side as do Arsenal and even Liverpool. If you take out Defoe and Bale where are the goals coming from in your side?
VDV and Sig for two. Plus, i'm sure if we took out Defoe and Bale we'd probably play other players in their place.
Also, when you've been after NEW STRIKER for 4 years a striker that you've had for only 1.5 years seems pretty new to me
Point taken but I don't see why strikers HAVE to score, it's never harmed Barca who are the benchmark. I'd much rather 30 goals come from a team than have 40 goals come from one player. At least with us you don't know where the goal is coming from
Every player has the potential to be a match winner but it's pointless if they don't and none of the players I was talking about scored on the weekend. Oh and we have Adebayor now too
It's never troubled Barcelona because whether you consider Messi a striker or a false, deep-lying, free role number 9, he is the focal point for their attacks in the final 3rd and scores has been breaking records with his scoring record. You'd rather score less goals spread across your whole team than score more from just one player? You're mad
I'd take the ten extra goals, to be honest, but I get your point. Who have we lost as a goal threat though, now that Adebayor's signed permanently? Modric hardly weighed in with many and neither Krancjar nor Pienaar played often enough to chip in.
Sigurdsson should be able to replicate Kranjcar in the scoring - if we sign another midfielder or two (for the sake of argument, Ramirez and Pjanic) that would cover Pienaar's as well.
The press would absolutely adore Pjanic. They don't think about headlines much now, but his would write themselves.
