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View EverybodyDannsNow's Profile EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 04 May 16 11.57am Send a Private Message to EverybodyDannsNow Add EverybodyDannsNow as a friend

Originally posted by fed up eagle

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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I always find it funny the same people slating Pardew for spending £7m on Wickham, or Sako on £55k a week (allegedly) claim what we should be doing instead is spending £10m on Benick Afobe.

Of course they could do worst - despite his injuries, Wickham has 6 goals - I think it's pretty logical to assume if he had played a full season he would have at least 10 goals to his name - of the sides outside of the top 6, only Sunderland (Defoe), Everton (Lukaku), Watford (Ighalo & Deeney) and Chelsea (Costa) have strikers with over 10 goals, so this idea that we're the only club struggling with strikers is a complete myth, and a lot of clubs have spent a hell of a lot more money than us in trying to find the answer.

Bournemouth are two points better off than us and they've spent over £20m on strikers in less than 12 months - their top scorer is Josh King with 7.

 

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View fed up eagle's Profile fed up eagle Flag Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 04 May 16 1.53pm Send a Private Message to fed up eagle Add fed up eagle as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

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I always find it funny the same people slating Pardew for spending £7m on Wickham, or Sako on £55k a week (allegedly) claim what we should be doing instead is spending £10m on Benick Afobe.

Of course they could do worst - despite his injuries, Wickham has 6 goals - I think it's pretty logical to assume if he had played a full season he would have at least 10 goals to his name - of the sides outside of the top 6, only Sunderland (Defoe), Everton (Lukaku), Watford (Ighalo & Deeney) and Chelsea (Costa) have strikers with over 10 goals, so this idea that we're the only club struggling with strikers is a complete myth, and a lot of clubs have spent a hell of a lot more money than us in trying to find the answer.

Bournemouth are two points better off than us and they've spent over £20m on strikers in less than 12 months - their top scorer is Josh King with 7.

Funny it's the same people who get all indignant at the slightest sign of criticism towards club policy. I didn't slate Pardew in my post.
Afobe scored a few goals when he went to Bournemouth, although he's been out injured for a while. Would have been a good fit for Palace.

 

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Originally posted by fed up eagle

Funny it's the same people who get all indignant at the slightest sign of criticism towards club policy. I didn't slate Pardew in my post.
Afobe scored a few goals when he went to Bournemouth, although he's been out injured for a while. Would have been a good fit for Palace.

Ok, you've criticised the goal tallies of our forwards, and our scouts/club for failing to find better.

Given what I've highlighted above, in that only 4 clubs of the bottom 14 have successfully found a 10+ goal a season striker - and Costa and Lukaku are hardly comparable with us - combined with the fact that most clubs have spent considerably more than us on strikers in the same time period, do you not think your criticism is lacking foundation?

 

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Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Ok, you've criticised the goal tallies of our forwards, and our scouts/club for failing to find better.

Given what I've highlighted above, in that only 4 clubs of the bottom 14 have successfully found a 10+ goal a season striker - and Costa and Lukaku are hardly comparable with us - combined with the fact that most clubs have spent considerably more than us on strikers in the same time period, do you not think your criticism is lacking foundation?

you're right but it would be nice to have a touch of class up front that isnt earning 170k a week.

wickham could do with some work on his close control if he wants to create his own goals. his first goal was a penalty ehe

 

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Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

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I always find it funny the same people slating Pardew for spending £7m on Wickham, or Sako on £55k a week (allegedly) claim what we should be doing instead is spending £10m on Benick Afobe.

Of course they could do worst - despite his injuries, Wickham has 6 goals - I think it's pretty logical to assume if he had played a full season he would have at least 10 goals to his name - of the sides outside of the top 6, only Sunderland (Defoe), Everton (Lukaku), Watford (Ighalo & Deeney) and Chelsea (Costa) have strikers with over 10 goals, so this idea that we're the only club struggling with strikers is a complete myth, and a lot of clubs have spent a hell of a lot more money than us in trying to find the answer.

Bournemouth are two points better off than us and they've spent over £20m on strikers in less than 12 months - their top scorer is Josh King with 7.

You are certainly right that it is very difficult for a number of EPL clubs to find goal scoring strikers. However we do need next season to really give this a go. I think we need another potential striker as well as a midfielder who can possibly find the net, unless Cabaye is given a pop at filling this role. We are taking a huge punt on relying on Wilf, Punch, Yannick and Wickham to produce the goods. I'd like to see us getting more bodies in the box when on the attack, causing a bit more havoc and generally putting the oppo on the backfoot.

 


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Gylfi Siggurdson for me.
I do however think if we ARE going for a 442 Gayle and Connor could be a great combo - but it will take a bit of time for them to get it going. IF they click it could make for a very exciting strike team.
But we need sufficient back up Lapado needs massive improvement/development - but could be a handfull and either Grey or Hooper could be good additions. Certainly better than Campbell and Cham - that's where we have been caught out this year and why Yala has ended up in thecwrong position.

 

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I think we need another big man too, assuming Adebayor is leaving. I think it makes sense to have an understudy to Wickham; someone who would be relatively cheap.

But the main target should be one that runs in behind the defence or one that likes to pick the ball up in the hole (a la Chamakh).

 

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View fed up eagle's Profile fed up eagle Flag Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 05 May 16 12.19am Send a Private Message to fed up eagle Add fed up eagle as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Ok, you've criticised the goal tallies of our forwards, and our scouts/club for failing to find better.

Given what I've highlighted above, in that only 4 clubs of the bottom 14 have successfully found a 10+ goal a season striker - and Costa and Lukaku are hardly comparable with us - combined with the fact that most clubs have spent considerably more than us on strikers in the same time period, do you not think your criticism is lacking foundation?

Not particularly. My point is when the likes of Vardy was banging them in for Fleetwood we didn't seem to go for him. I remember when Marcus Stewart was banging them in for Bristol Rovers, who did we go for? His strike partner Gareth Taylor! Nicky Forster at Brentford in the late 1990'S, he apparently wanted to come to Palace, we never did anything! He was a decent striker for the level we were at at the time. My point is quite simple, we do seem to snub strikers who can score in favour of none prolific strikers-sometimes. Why? It's all @rse about face a lot of the time!
Yeah sure we've had Wrighty, Bright and AJ-the only strikers who have done it for us at the top level, but we have missed out on obvious targets in favour of none obvious! It's a simple point! Nothing to get indignant about, our history is littered with duds!

Edited by fed up eagle (05 May 2016 1.08am)

 

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Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

this idea that we're the only club struggling with strikers is a complete myth, and a lot of clubs have spent a hell of a lot more money than us in trying to find the answer.

Bournemouth are two points better off than us and they've spent over £20m on strikers in less than 12 months - their top scorer is Josh King with 7.

Didn't we get all the way to Christmas without a single goal scored by a striker and that duck was only broken when Wickham grabbed the ball to make sure that it was him that took a penalty.

Bournemouth had a problem when their top striker suffered a long term injury straight away and had to buy a replacement which they may not have wanted to do in the normal course of events

 

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Originally posted by fed up eagle

Not particularly. My point is when the likes of Vardy was banging them in for Fleetwood we didn't seem to go for him. I remember when Marcus Stewart was banging them in for Bristol Rovers, who did we go for? His strike partner Gareth Taylor! Nicky Forster at Brentford in the late 1990'S, he apparently wanted to come to Palace, we never did anything! He was a decent striker for the level we were at at the time. My point is quite simple, we do seem to snub strikers who can score in favour of none prolific strikers-sometimes. Why? It's all @rse about face a lot of the time!
Yeah sure we've had Wrighty, Bright and AJ-the only strikers who have done it for us at the top level, but we have missed out on obvious targets in favour of none obvious! It's a simple point! Nothing to get indignant about, our history is littered with duds!

Edited by fed up eagle (05 May 2016 1.08am)

I guess you didn't notice the link I posted above that indicates that we did go for Vardy...

 

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View fed up eagle's Profile fed up eagle Flag Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 05 May 16 10.50am Send a Private Message to fed up eagle Add fed up eagle as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

I guess you didn't notice the link I posted above that indicates that we did go for Vardy...

Paper talk. A story with no real depth or conviction. If we went for him how comes he ended up at Leicester? Although now a more attractive option than us I don't think they were then. I've supported this club long enough (since 1987) to know how we operate.

 

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Originally posted by fed up eagle

Paper talk. A story with no real depth or conviction. If we went for him how comes he ended up at Leicester? Although now a more attractive option than us I don't think they were then. I've supported this club long enough (since 1987) to know how we operate.

Actually I recall Steve Parish confirming that Dougie Freedman wanted Vardy, but Leicester were willing to pay £1m and Palace weren't.

 


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