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Just looked at a list of our transfers going back to Martinez.

Strikers/attackers:

  1. Lukaku (my God, how we miss you, sweet prince)
  2. Kone
  3. Delefeou
  4. Eto'o
  5. Atsu
  6. David Henen
  7. Lenton
  8. Niasse
  9. Bolassie
  10. Calvert-Lewin
  11. Valencia
  12. Lookman
  13. Henry Onyekuru
  14. Sandro Ramierez
  15. Rooney (the fat old hair transplant version)
  16. Tosun (bonus of many interesting new GOT posters)
  17. Walcott
  18. Richarlison
  19. Moise Kean
  20. Josh King
  21. Townsend
  22. Demari Gray
  23. Salomon sodding Rondon (ffs)
  24. James Rodriguez
  25. Maupay (le furet)
  26. Danjuma
  27. Chermiti
  28. Beto
  29. Ndiaye
  30. Broja
  31. Barry
I could have included the likes of Gylfi and Dele Ali or Lindstrom, but my loose definition was those who were either played as strikers or wide forwards. Maybe James could come off that list of pain. But then, he's one of arguably 5 or 6 who offered any level of consistency, quality or joy in a blue shirt. Which is remarkable given he barely played a season.

Thats a terrible list, a savage indictment on our long term strategy (or lack of) for signing attackers.

Sobering.
 
Hes on a good run and good luck to him, to me he was infuriating to watch at times when he was here especially one v one chances, it felt more like a nice surprise he would take them rather than squander them .

The club not adequately replacing Lukaku has been a big problem as well.

In my opinion Hes the kind of player who doesn’t take you to the top level we all want us to get to. We have had too many of those over the years and the claims he is much better than what we have says a lot about where we are as a club and the recruitment process.
 
TheBigIguana said:
The management in attack is bad. Our strikers continue to struggle because our team doesn’t have a chance creation plan.
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Nah our strikers struggle cos they’re terrible. We have the most creative midfield we’ve had in ages but our forwards are static and predictable. Watch the movement of a half decent forward like Watkins then look at the positions our lads get into. Beto runs towards groups of opposition players off the ball time and time again instead of into any space.
Decent full backs would help like.
 

Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Just looked at a list of our transfers going back to Martinez.

Strikers/attackers:

  1. Lukaku (my God, how we miss you, sweet prince)
  2. Kone
  3. Delefeou
  4. Eto'o
  5. Atsu
  6. David Henen
  7. Lennon
  8. Niasse
  9. Bolassie
  10. Calvert-Lewin
  11. Valencia
  12. Lookman
  13. Henry Onyekuru
  14. Sandro Ramierez
  15. Rooney (the fat old hair transplant version)
  16. Tosun (bonus of many interesting new GOT posters)
  17. Walcott
  18. Richarlison
  19. Moise Kean
  20. Josh King
  21. Townsend
  22. Demari Gray
  23. Salomon sodding Rondon (ffs)
  24. James Rodriguez
  25. Maupay (le furet)
  26. Danjuma
  27. Chermiti
  28. Beto
  29. Ndiaye
  30. Broja
  31. Barry
I could have included the likes of Gylfi and Dele Ali or Lindstrom, but my loose definition was those who were either played as strikers or wide forwards. Maybe James could come off that list of pain. But then, he's one of arguably 5 or 6 who offered any level of consistency, quality or joy in a blue shirt. Which is remarkable given he barely played a season.

Thats a terrible list, a savage indictment on our long term strategy (or lack of) for signing attackers.

Sobering.
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I can't say I've done the most thorough research, but...

...my preliminary look suggests those players in bold scored a total of 112 competitive goals between them. That's 4.86 goals each on average. Sigh!
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Nah our strikers struggle cos they’re terrible. We have the most creative midfield we’ve had in ages but our forwards are static and predictable. Watch the movement of a half decent forward like Watkins then look at the positions our lads get into. Beto runs towards groups of opposition players off the ball time and time again instead of into any space.
Decent full backs would help like.
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Absolutely myth. We have the most creative in theory but they aren’t playing like that. No one knows how they’re meant to combine with each other to open teams up and it shows.

Sure O’Brien isn’t a natural fullback but neither was Dan Burn. One grew into it through proper coaching and the other looks like he’s lost still after, what, 40 odd games doing it? O’Brien is better than this, and so is literally everyone else. But you’re not going to see it with these coaches.

I said somewhere else but Ndiaye has 19 shots in 16 appearances this season. Anton Stach has 29 in less time. Rutter has 27 in less time. Casemiro has 25 in significantly less time. The entire attack is underachieving their talent level and it’s more shocking the deeper you dig.

There isn’t a striker who wouldn’t play worse here than they would in a better setup.
 
Daytripper said:
Hes on a good run and good luck to him, to me he was infuriating to watch at times when he was here especially one v one chances, it felt more like a nice surprise he would take them rather than squander them .

The club not adequately replacing Lukaku has been a big problem as well.

In my opinion Hes the kind of player who doesn’t take you to the top level we all want us to get to. We have had too many of those over the years and the claims he is much better than what we have says a lot about where we are as a club and the recruitment process.
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on his day a really good player

but far to many injury’s
 

TheBigIguana said:
Absolutely myth. We have the most creative in theory but they aren’t playing like that. No one knows how they’re meant to combine with each other to open teams up and it shows.
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Cos they have gash movement in front of them. You see it every game. Midfielder looks up for a forward pass and Barry/ Beto are in a position where they’ll be easily dispossessed or the pass intercepted.
 

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