Vardy was hardly an overnight success at Leicester. He's had to work hard and they play to his strengths. We paid far more for Dwight Gayle and then tried to convert him into a target man ! I'm not his biggest fan, but I don't think he's ever been utilised properly.

I'd like to see what he and Wickham can do in a 442. Gayle looked effective when he ( briefly ) had Murray up top with him.

Old, Ungifted and White

Well it's a big market place and I seriously can not believe that there isn't someone out there who isn't able to place the ball between two sticks and a cross bar and actually display some skill. To me these days we're to ready to call or classify people as strikers when they're clearly not. The scouting network and how we coach players has to be called into question.
I have connections to the north west and saw Fleetwood once when they were going for promotion into the league. Although not the finished article there was clearly something about Vardy, and no, I'm not just saying that. My friend is a PNE fan and he was raving about after he'd seen him twice for Fleetwood.. How can normal fans see the potential and so called pro's can't? Because if we had we'd have invested in someone who is clearly a very good striker. I can't see anyone arriving soon whose going to change things, although would love to be proved wrong.

There are strikers in the lower divisions who have attracted attention. For example :

Lee Gregory (Millwall), Tom Bradshaw (Walsall), Lasse Vibe (Brentford), Kemar Roofe (Oxford Utd), AJ Leitch-Smith (Port Vale), Jonathan Kodjia (Bristol C), Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon), Ademola Lookman (Charlton, Matty Taylor (Bristol R) etc etc.

Edited by Willo (05 May 2016 12.46pm)

Judging by some of the additions I beg to differ.

Meeoooow pussy cat....

It does seem if you are critical of the club someone is ready to take offence. By saying that recruitment isn't good I believe that to be a genuine point. Ok, Cabaye, Wickham and Souare for me are good additions to the squad. However, for those players there is also Mcarthy, Mutch, Sako, Lee, Adebayor and Bamford (both loan), and last seasons loanees Sanogo and Ameobi. There are more of course but I think you can catch my drift. Some of those are championship players at best. I'm all for Pardew being given the chance to spend some money and build a team. No doubt he should be able to lead us into next season, but he needs to up his game, and the clubs ambitions when it comes to signings needs to improve.

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Edited by fed up eagle (05 May 2016 2.49pm)