by Cool Hand Luke » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:10 am
Most teams have three established senior strikers and one who is a more junior prospect:
Chelsea: Drogba, Crespo, Gudjohnson and Carlton Cole
Arseanl: Henry, Bergkamp, Reyes and Van Persie
Man Utd: Van Nistelrooy, Rooney, Saha, and they had Bellion, maybe they will use Rossi as there 4th striker (Smith don’t play as a striker anymore, Solsjkaer's career is finished by the looks of it and he seemed to be playing on the right wing much more before he got injured, even Saha looks as though he will leave in the next year).
My point is that you need 3 senior strikers and 1 'junior' striker. It is not desirable to have 4 strikers that expect to be in the team every week.
Crouch definitely has one of these positions. Although I don’t agree with it, Morientes has another, and it is a straight choice between Cisse and Owen. Personally I would like to see Pongolle go out on loan (preferably in the Premiership), because he will only improve by playing regular first team football. And I say we keep Mellor for 1 more year as our 4th striker, he will be useful in the reserve team as well as we don’t seem to have anyone who can score goals.
If we had the money and it was achievable, I would have liked to see this:
Dirk Kuyt, Crouch, Owen, and Mellor (Morientes, Cisse sold, and Pongolle out on loan).
But it looks as though we will get:
Crouch, Morientes, Cisse/Owen and Pongolle
i think yes what about you