What kind of forward we need?

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Such a shame that when we had Lukaku in good form the rest of the team was utterly turgid. Imagine Lukaku at the top of some of Moyes’ best teams, we’d have been top 4 a couple of times.
Alas, it's a long process getting the right mix of players together. Moyes never had the cash during that period to get that type of player when he might have been able to kick the team on a level.

And then Lukaku was never backed up by sufficiently good team mates - though if the team mates were better, perhaps Rom would have looked out of place.

Consistency in management and bucket loads of cash are the only way to speed up the chance to get to that position. Even then it's not guaranteed.

As for our current striking requirement, I really would love to see a Thierry Henry style player come in. The only problem is that there's probably about a good dozen of teams with more pull that would go for him before us.
 
Alas, it's a long process getting the right mix of players together. Moyes never had the cash during that period to get that type of player when he might have been able to kick the team on a level.

And then Lukaku was never backed up by sufficiently good team mates - though if the team mates were better, perhaps Rom would have looked out of place.

Consistency in management and bucket loads of cash are the only way to speed up the chance to get to that position. Even then it's not guaranteed.

As for our current striking requirement, I really would love to see a Thierry Henry style player come in. The only problem is that there's probably about a good dozen of teams with more pull that would go for him before us.

Even if we can find one good striker, being able to pair him with Richarlison and Bernard would give us a brilliant front three. The problem at the moment is we have those 2 and then a kid leading the line who has done well no doubt but just isn’t the type of player yet to hit 20 goals or inspire fear in the opposition. If we found that lethal number 9 our attack would look potent with Siggurdson Richarlison Bernard and a top striker.
 
Mitrovic would be a good buy. Within our price range, proven to score goals in the Premier League and also has a snide about him that would go down well with our fanbase
 

Alas, it's a long process getting the right mix of players together.

This. They type of player we buy is completely dependent upon the style Silva wants. We can speculate based upon what we saw last season but I doubt that midfield set-up is what Silva wants and that'll have a knock-on effect to who we buy up top.
 
Such a shame that when we had Lukaku in good form the rest of the team was utterly turgid. Imagine Lukaku at the top of some of Moyes’ best teams, we’d have been top 4 a couple of times.
Always said if we had a proper number 10 at the time Lukaku was in his prime form with us, we would have been well in the top 6.
 

A clever fox in the box type combined with strength and a foot like a traction engine. Basically a mix of Jelavic, Lukaku and a rocket foot like Adriano would do me nicely. Must be able to hit a barn door is essential.

But let's be honest we'll probably end up with a swap deal of Mitrovic for Tosun.
 
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