We don't even play in a style that will get the best out of someone like RSC. We never put crosses into the box and the only decent crosser of a ball that we have (Petrov) will either be a backup player or sold. In his one-hit wonder season, nearly every goal RSC scored was with his head, but we wont give him this type of service. This idea that we need a bustling target man for the lone striker role is complete bollocks. We don't. We need a striker with pace, movement, a good first touch, and clinical finishing. Look at some of the top strikers in the world.... Torres plays upfront on his own for Liverpool. Is he a target man? No. Villa does for Valencia quite a lot. Is he a target man? No. When Anelka was on fire at the start of last season in Drogba's absence, he was upfront on his own. Is Anelka a target man? No. Eto'o has played the lone striker role for years and scored tons of goals. Is he a target man? No. We don't need a target man and we certainly don't need Santa Cruz. It is the modern way to play without target men now. The days of getting to the by-line and whipping in crosses for an 8ft bean pole are long gone, unless you are a team like Wigan or Blackburn. Playing in a style that gets the best out of RSC will not even make us close the gap on West Ham, never mind the top 4. The saving grace though is that there are many more transfer windows in the future and hopefully Hughes will quickly correct his mistake.
