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View Mad4palace's Profile Mad4palace Flag 30 Apr 16 2.10pm Send a Private Message to Mad4palace Add Mad4palace as a friend

Now that we've seen Pardew insist on playing a 4-4-2 with Bolasie partnering Wickham, unless Gayle burst into the team in these last few games, Pardew really ought to be looking at a proper striker so that Bolasie can go back to his best position.

The benefits of having Bolasie there as the striker are that we can easily switch to a 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 as the game unfolds, Pardew also can field Puncheon as a much needed creative influence BUT we all agree that Bolasie isn't really cut out for a central role.

I think we need a kind of off the shoulder kind of striker a la Vardy. Here are my candidates for a Wickham strike partner:

Callum Wilson - Bournemouth, Loic Remy - Chelsea, Alexandre Lacazette - Lyon, Andre Gray - Burnley, Danny Ings - Liverpool, Jermaine Defoe - Sunderland

Each one can take care of themselves IF played as a lone striker better than Gayle in my opinion, but are each are suited to playing with a big man like Wickham and a few (Remy, Lacazette, Ings) could slip back into a wing position if really needed to defend.

 

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What if the reason that it's Bolasie up front is that he's not good enough defensively to play in a 4 man midfield, particularly against the top 10.

Therefore, if we were to buy this striker, Bolasie wouldn't actually end up going back to his 'best position', because his best position wouldn't exist anymore. As a 4 man midfield, he'd be playing deeper than he likes and Punch might beat him to that position.

 


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View Mad4palace's Profile Mad4palace Flag 30 Apr 16 2.41pm Send a Private Message to Mad4palace Add Mad4palace as a friend

Originally posted by ambrose7

What if the reason that it's Bolasie up front is that he's not good enough defensively to play in a 4 man midfield, particularly against the top 10.

Therefore, if we were to buy this striker, Bolasie wouldn't actually end up going back to his 'best position', because his best position wouldn't exist anymore. As a 4 man midfield, he'd be playing deeper than he likes and Punch might beat him to that position.

Somewhat true, Puncheon and Zaha have better discipline defensively but with Bolasie in his natural position we should be dominant down that wing. Souare and Bolasie is potentially one of the best attacking combo's in the league. Regardless it's good to have options and there will be times when someone is injured.

 

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Aren't there rumours Pulis gets cash if there's a transfer fee involving Berahino? Therefore, he's unlikely to let his contract expire

Edit: I've remembered this wrong. Pulls merely wants to spend the cash on players he'll get a cut of. Still, it's motive to sell SB.

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View coulsdoneagle's Profile coulsdoneagle Flag London 01 May 16 3.59pm Send a Private Message to coulsdoneagle Add coulsdoneagle as a friend

Originally posted by Mad4palace

Now that we've seen Pardew insist on playing a 4-4-2 with Bolasie partnering Wickham, unless Gayle burst into the team in these last few games, Pardew really ought to be looking at a proper striker so that Bolasie can go back to his best position.

The benefits of having Bolasie there as the striker are that we can easily switch to a 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 as the game unfolds, Pardew also can field Puncheon as a much needed creative influence BUT we all agree that Bolasie isn't really cut out for a central role.

I think we need a kind of off the shoulder kind of striker a la Vardy. Here are my candidates for a Wickham strike partner:

Callum Wilson - Bournemouth, Loic Remy - Chelsea, Alexandre Lacazette - Lyon, Andre Gray - Burnley, Danny Ings - Liverpool, Jermaine Defoe - Sunderland

Each one can take care of themselves IF played as a lone striker better than Gayle in my opinion, but are each are suited to playing with a big man like Wickham and a few (Remy, Lacazette, Ings) could slip back into a wing position if really needed to defend.

Good one...

Bet we can nip in ahead of Barca and nab him for cheapsies

 

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View Mad4palace's Profile Mad4palace Flag 01 May 16 4.00pm Send a Private Message to Mad4palace Add Mad4palace as a friend

Berahino is a perfect fit too, although ridiculously overpriced and not really the kind of character we need.

 

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Dwight Gayle

 

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View Jamesrichards8's Profile Jamesrichards8 Flag 04 May 16 4.44am Send a Private Message to Jamesrichards8 Add Jamesrichards8 as a friend

Loic Remy obviously doesn't want to come here. We've tried and tried and tried. He's not that young anyway. 29.

 


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View fed up eagle's Profile fed up eagle Flag Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 04 May 16 10.46am Send a Private Message to fed up eagle Add fed up eagle as a friend

I would have liked us to sign Benik Afobe when he was at Wolves, but we never ever go in for goal scoring strikers! I equally don't understand why we didn't go for Vardy when he was scoring for Fleetwood.
Why can us fans identify strikers with potential but our scouting network or management never notice them?
And before you say 'well they actually see them play blah blah blah', they couldn't do any worse than the none scoring strikers that we have!
If I said I was a chef but couldn't cook I would be sacked and done under the trade descriptions act! So how come some of our strikers get away with being called strikers??

Has to be Remy for me, an absolute no brainer.

 

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View beer man's Profile beer man Flag Kent 04 May 16 11.27am Send a Private Message to beer man Add beer man as a friend

Originally posted by fed up eagle

If I said I was a chef but couldn't cook I would be sacked ....


You wouldn't say that if you'd worked with some of the people I have

 

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View Mad4palace's Profile Mad4palace Flag 04 May 16 11.45am Send a Private Message to Mad4palace Add Mad4palace as a friend

Originally posted by coulsdoneagle

Good one...

Bet we can nip in ahead of Barca and nab him for cheapsies

I think he's pretty much in the same pool as Payet was last year; big teams are interested but he could equally go to a club of our size.

 

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