Carroll is a menace, and his footskills are not as bad as many would like us to believe. Personally I don't think it matters who we get up top (at least not as much as it matters who holds on to the ball behind the guy up top.)
There are a series of ways we can go with signings.We could eshew an out and out striker all together, and bring in a few more ball skill players with intelligence. Personally, I'd favor this. Bring in Javier Pastore and David Luiz. Let Balotelli and Jo Come off the bench as backup strikers to Tevez. We wills score more goals. I think City needs to become a team scoring squad, as opposed to a striker dependent one. Lets get more goals from other areas.
Yaya, Silva, Barry, Milner, Johnson, Balottelli, e.t.c. have to score more. Getting 20 from Tevez and 15 from whoever comes in January, and a high of 5 from the next best scorer will be a disappointing trend.
Frankly part of the reason why we are so dependent on Tevez is simply because Tevez himself can be a bit selfish. Even o his 3 goal, Yaya was better positioned and a simple pass would have resulted in a ore likely goal. Luckily Colocini deflected Tevez's tough angle shot in.
Mancini complained about a little too much selfishness earlier in the season, it seems Adam Johnson is the only one who is listening. Last week he gave up a shot to make a pass to Yaya for our goal, and on the Tevez goal, he could have easily taken a shot but instead held back and passed. I think he should be rewarded with a start for some of these acts.
Others need to follow suit. Yaya once on one of his breakaway run had an opportunity to slot Tevez and get a likely open return pass, instead he went alone and lost it. Granted be probably knew Tevez probably wouldn't have given the return pass. Had that been Silva, I can almost swear Yaya would have passed off.
We need to work on these things. Kolarov is another one with that do it all by myself mentality. I love his shots, but he needs to pick and choose when to release them. Certainly not from the touchline or from an acute angle. That is simply just unhelpful. For example watch how Granger, Carroll and the annoying dude (Ex-Bolton chap) time and time again attempted to drop balls for each other in the box. They did it so often you could tell it was by design.
We need to become a little more like them in that respect. Trust your teammate and the pass!
Baines goal for Everton against us was another good example. Everyone letting the ball play as opposed to trying to play it all by themselves.
I understand the newness of the players to each other plays a role in how well they let the ball play, but sometimes it is simply just down to selfishness!
Wait, what was this thread about again? Oh yes, Carroll! good player that :)
