haha oh tree. WBA definitely have better strikers than us.
Long has scored 19 goals in 70 appearances for WBA, and 73 from 273 in his career; Odemwingie has 31 in 90 at WBA and 86 from 297 in total. So in a goals-to-games ratio Jelavic, with 19 from 59 for us and 94 from 216 in total, is streets ahead. granted, Long and Odemwingie are better than Anichebe by some margin, but given their ages I'd only take Long as a replacement for Anichebe - Odemwingie is basically finished.
i'd say most of the others do as well, especially if you base it on last seasons.
But I wouldn't base it solely on one season. I've already made that clear by pointing out Jelavic was awesome in the half-season after he first arrived: 11 goals in 16 games had everyone drooling like Pavlov's dog, and it's not as if they were all simply luck
QPR with Remy, cisse, johnson etc. do. even le fondre and pogrebnyak looked better than ours especially in goalscoring terms.
Remy: 6 in 14 for QPR.... 9 in 35 if you include his Marseille stats. 67 from 203 in his career.
Cisse: 4 in the whole season. BBC website link to his career stats isn"t working.
Johnson: Presuming you mean our old chap, he didn't score at all this season. 146 in 455 for the career though.
Le Fondre: 14 from 37 this season. 144 from 360 career - you may have a point with this guy. Maybe.
Pogrebnyak: 8 in 32 this season (identical to Anichebe); 64 in 191 career.
So all those, only Le Fondre has better than a 1 in 3 ratio.... Jelavic's career total of 94 in 216 is better than 1 in 3 as well. Everyone you've listed would be a step up from Anichebe at best.
Sunderland and Soton have marginally better even if the money the spent on theirs could have been better. Stoke's are a bit meh, but they have a few of them who round up as better.
Lambert: 15 from 38; 219 from 581 - marginally better than Jelavic, but he takes pens and free kicks - Jela doesn't.
Rordriguez: 9 from 37; 54 from 183 - better than Anichebe, arguably, but nowhere near Jelavic.
Fletcher: 11 from 31 this year; 99 from 324 in total - slightly better this year, but overall not as good as Jelavic.
Graham: 7 from 36 (split between Swansea and Sunderland); 107 from 337 for the career. Marginally better than Jelavic this year (arguably), but not even close overall.
Can I be bothered to pull up the stats for Crouch, Jones and Walters. A brief glimpse shows you that Walters had a better season than Jela this year, but overall he's no better than Anichebe. Jelavic over the career eclipses all three of them.
WHU's are ordinary and i'd say are worse than our options as are swansea's seeing as michu isn't really a striker.
i don't think jelavic and anichebe can score 25 in a season if i'm being honest. a goalscorer like bent is definitely our number 1 priority
Agree re West Ham and Swansea. With a better midfield providing more chances, Jelavic and Anichebe would score more. 15 from one and 10 from the other is easily achievable. The stats show that Jelavic had the off year from hell this year by his own standards and even after that he still averages a goal every 2.33 games. EVERY alternative you've mentioned averages out at a goal every three games AT BEST, with the exception of Le Fondre who averages out at a goal every 2.5 games.
Bent's ratio of 178 in 427 is interesting. Averages out at 2.39... but he's 30 already and this season he only got 6 from 23. If the price was right he might be worth considering, but he's really only a stopgap isn't he? I can't see him having more than two years left in the tank.
