mancboy123 said:
Simon23 you keep quoting players who have neve played in the premiership. This guy has consistently scored goals in the premiership a feat which eto'o and fabiano havent done and before you come back at me with they score goals in the spanish league yes i accept that BUT so does forlan and he didnt do it here.
We are trying to hit the ground running and i think wed have a better chance to do that with a guy who knows the league as oppose to 2 guys who while good in another league have no guarantees that the will play well in this league add onto that the stress of settling into a foreign country etc and this cold turn out to be a decent buy.
Id have both the 2 players you mentioned but there is alot of variable to consider with both.
Yeah i agree wih you...but in my opinion both those two players would have no trouble whatsoever adapting to the premiership. When we signed Jo, Bianchi, Samaras and Corradi I said at the various times that though they had reasonable records in their previous leagues I thought that they would struggle in the prem...and i was correct.......i was also against us going after alves that middlesborough eventually bought.....for the same reasons that i thought he would struggle...and he has
i agree adebeyour is a very good player...and he has a good record in hte prem and would be a good signing....but we still need a variation in our strikers as he (in my opinion) is very similar to RSC......
as ive said before, if we want to really go to the next level then we need a striker that offers all the attributes in one player that we have from the numerous strikers we have
eg. bellamy...full of pace and aggression and desire to win....runs the channels well, and plays on the shoulder of the last man
Boj...great shot on him...strong, reasonably quick
rsc...good in the air and at holding the ball up...good shot on him as well
robbie....pacey and tricky and able to beat people while running at them....class finisher and can win a game in a moment of brilliance and can create chances for himself rather than relying on a supply line (this is especially imp0rtant against teams that come and park the bus in front of goal when at home)
however the likes of torres, ronaldo, eto'o, fabiano, drogba (in his prime) have all these qualitues themselves.....especially the ability to create something out of nothing when its really needed
