Lacina Traore

[BluenosePaul]

Really?

I don't remember him ruining Wayne Rooney

 

[Walken]

Bent played his football of his career at Everton albeit for 6 months.

he was moyes perfect striker in a lot of ways, having a boss tim cahill and arteta/gravesan was why it really worked though

 

[Goat]

Name one srtiker under Moyes that scored more than 20 in one season. 15 in one season.When Yakubu came he was a 20+ striker as was beatie and Johnson

Yakubu only ever scored more than 20 goals a season once, his first season at Everton.

 

[dannyboy]

Name one srtiker under Moyes that scored more than 20 in one season. 15 in one season.When Yakubu came he was a 20+ striker as was beatie and Johnson

Yakubu scored 20 goals in his first season then the injury happened.

The rest of our strikers under Moyes did alright. It's a complete myth to say he 'ruined' them.

 

[toffeejack]

Yakubu scored 20 goals in his first season then the injury happened.

The rest of our strikers under Moyes did alright. It's a complete myth to say he 'ruined' them.

it's not really. they all went downhill after the first season. i'll accept yakubu's was down to injury, but none of the rest.

 

[Walken]

it's not really. they all went downhill after the first season. i'll accept yakubu's was down to injury, but none of the rest.

I don't think a single striker that moyes bought left our club a better player than when he arrived

 

[Spocks-a-Blue]

He was terrible the other day I can't remember him winning a header .

I didn't think he was terrible, just not match fit. A goal on your debut should not be overlooked. However, I agree that he was pants in the header department. On a side note, kudos to you on the "Withnail & I" reference!

 

[toffeejack]

I don't think a single striker that moyes bought left our club a better player than when he arrived

was about to say anichebe is arguably the only one.

he did great with bent it must be said and beckford did probably better than expected, but never had the second season to prove himself.

 

[dannyboy]

it's not really. they all went downhill after the first season. i'll accept yakubu's was down to injury, but none of the rest.

What we were essentially trying to do was get a 20 goal a season striker for around £6m. That's a hard task in anyone's eyes.

If you look at the stats, Beattie was our top scorer in 05/06, Saha recorded his second best goal return in England with us and Johnson was a decent stop gap at the time before we moved onto better things.

 

[Sheedy's Third]

Yakubu scored 20 goals in his first season then the injury happened.

The rest of our strikers under Moyes did alright. It's a complete myth to say he 'ruined' them.

Indeed in 11 years 1 striker with 20.

 

[dannyboy]

Indeed in 11 years 1 striker with 20.

Because all the other clubs operating at our financial level have been producing 20+ goal a season strikers on a regular basis...

 

[toffeejack]

What we were essentially trying to do was get a 20 goal a season striker for around £6m. That's a hard task in anyone's eyes.

If you look at the stats, Beattie was our top scorer in 05/06, Saha recorded his second best goal return in England with us and Johnson was a decent stop gap at the time before we moved onto better things.

don't think we were every expecting any of them to get 20 tbh.

 

[dannyboy]

don't think we were every expecting any of them to get 20 tbh.

So you wanted a player who'd get a decent return of around 10-15 goals? Exactly what we got under Moyes...

 

[toffeejack]

So you wanted a player who'd get a decent return of around 10-15 goals? Exactly what we got under Moyes...

how many times was that achieved?

 

[dannyboy]

how many times was that achieved?

Every year bar 2.