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I have exactly the same feeling. Although I would definitely not choose Walcott and Sturridge as wing-forwards. Walcott is better through the middle and I'm not a fan of Sturridge. Isco and Müller, please!
If we sign Huntelaar, isn't it a bit of an admission that the long term strategy we've set out on is complete bollocks? I mean him being old and expensive and what-not.
Therefore, he says clinging to the hope that we ARE working to a strategy, I hope we don't sign him. Otherwise, I will have to perceive this as an act of desperate measure.
Therefore, he says clinging to the hope that we ARE working to a strategy, I hope we don't sign him. Otherwise, I will have to perceive this as an act of desperate measure.
Walcott is not "better through the middle". If he had been, Wenger would have been playing him there for a long time by now.
Agree about Sturridge though.
Yeah, but we're 3 months into a long term plan and looking to abandon it, if this rumour is true. I don't mind going through some lean times if I think it's part of the master plan, but please don't deviate willy-nilly and make me think you're making it up as you go along!!!
The owners set the tone when they abandoned their proposed structure just to secure the manager.
That's a fair comment.
Yeah, can't argue with that to be fair.
One Arse fan I know reckons Wenger only said that to try and persuade Walcott not to leave, and I think he may well be right. Walcott's finishing has defo improved, but from the same right-sided position he's always played. The Arse haven't seen fit to play him down the middle despite the fact that he's been on about it for years. There's a reason for that. Walcott's a decent enough player, and if he were happy to play on the right of our front three I wouldn't be against signing him for a sensible price, but he isn't. Do Not Want.
All of that applies to Sturridge too.
All of that applies to Sturridge too.
I don't know, Jules, Walcott seems a bright and sensible character but he's so angry these days about not being given a proper chance to play in the centre it intrigues me about the roots of that passion. I'd like to see him played there, over time, to see just what his potential actually is, because we just don't know at present. But that's all about experimentation, and, as you suggest, what the club needs now is a sure thing.
Some interesting comments earlier this evening from Alan Green on 606. He reckoned a deal bringing Huntelaar to Liverpool had gone quite a long way towards completion when Huntelaar's wage demands (£3 mill.a year reportedly) brought things to a halt.
£3m per year is less than £60k per week.
Didn't he reject a contract offer from Schalke far in excess of that?
Unless it's 3m after tax.... Unless you factored that in
My maths isn't quite the best
I thought I read somewhere that the offer was €130k which is over £100k per week
Based on out last 5 years of transfers, that's probably not a bad thing
I can't see Chelsea selling Lukaku to us.
Allow me to join the chorus of posters who can't see a Lukaku deal happening. He seems quite a prospect but, even if the Chavs were willing to sell to us (and I reckon you fellas are right about that), the fee they'll want will be humungous, and he doesn't look to me like the kind of player who will fit naturally into Rodgers' preferred style of play anyway.
You haven't made it until Chang threatens your family's home & business & says he'll make fans shit through your letter box.
Lukaku's size and physique may make him look more like a target man type striker, but he's more than that. He's very pacy and mobile, and isn't averse to pulling out wide to put crosses in as well. I saw some extended highlights of his play against Blackburn last season, and he was putting at least 3 solid crosses in from the right (one of which led to a goal by Terry). He's obviously also a good target man of course, with his size, strength and mobility.
Would love him here but can't see it happening.
Would love him here but can't see it happening.
how much did the Chavs pay for him?? it was big bucks wasnt it?? And how the fuck did they make a profit last season?? Those interest free loans from Abramovich are quite something eh...
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