bigmick wrote:Like many threads, this one has been going quite a while and as such many posts within it would be out of date. If you'd asked me a few weeks back I'd have been racking my brains trying to think of Saints myhtical creative second striker (and I wouldn't have any problem with Robbie Keane to be honest) , but such has been firstly our progress and secondly and probably more importantly the complete fickleness and wanton kneejerkery of my nature, that I'm starting to warm to this 4-5-1 lark.
If we take the view (and I would suggest if we go to Old Trafford tomorrow and win 2-0 that most of us will take the view) that we are going to stick with the 4-5-1, then we quite possibly already have Torres's ideal partner and he's playing with him right now. One of the reasons I like the system for us (and make no bones about it it is a very recent conversion on my part) is that it significantly reduces the number of plauyers we would need to become really very very good. I've said many times that we are plenty good enough to be in the title race this season, and we are. However, were either Gerrard or Torres to become injured for a sustained period (and it's probably be even worse given our resources if it was the Spaniard) then we would be fecked given our current squad. For that reason, perhaps we shouldn't be thinking of a Torres partner, more of somebody who can play either with him or without him. Someone should tell this c... Hicks that he needs to win the fans over, and the best way of doing it would be to finance a huge transfer. Go to Barcelona and buy Samuel Eto, then the fans will love you. We won't of course, but at least we'd get our man.
You can do better than that Mick
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