Emenike's true stats:

4 goals in 500 minutes for Olympiakos this season (didn't play much because of a conflict with the manager, but qualified them to the Champions league)

8 goals and 5 assists in 1400 minutes for Fenerbahce (including 3 goals in the Champions League play-offs against last year's Monaco with the entire gang: Mbappe, Falcao, Bernardo Silva, Lemar, Sidibe, Mendy etc )

2 goals in 800 minutes for West Ham (for which he was used mostly as a winger, which he isn't)- ok, 0 goals in 500 minutes in the Premier League, but like I said, he played out of position. Plus, there are a tone of strikers who may go 500 minutes and not score a goal, it's happened to the best of them

12 goals and 9 assists in 2200 minutes for Fenerbahce before that

24 goals and 8 assists in 3600 minutes for Spartak Moscow before that

So you can see that he pretty much has 1 goal or 1 assist every 100 minutes every season the last 7 years. That's consistency.
A first tier La Liga team which got him this winter seems to agree with me.
You should check out his actual playing time before you say things like "hasn't scored at all in 5 matches". Ok, you were talking about league matches, but that doesn't encompass everything he did at that club. If he got sent in for 10 minutes every match, it doesn't look that bad that he hasn't scored in 5, does it?

Managers man...managers. You know how nobody used Mariano Diaz in Real Madrid and he's now flying in France for Lyon. They want him back but don't have a buyback option.
Also, how Mourinho ignored de Bruyne, Salah and Lukaku while at Chelsea. How van Gaal ignored di Maria. How Pochettino ignored Paulinho. How Mertens didn't play much for the Belgium national team. How Coutinho was kicked out of Inter.

Managers.....

What do you mean none picked up the players I talked about?
They're players under contract, they're in big clubs.
Petersen is playing in Freiburg. Hernani is in Porto, they want money to let him go (not everyone can pay 3 million). Gyan is earning good in Turkey, he doesn't really care about playing football anymore. Obafemi Martins is earning twice that in China!! They'd only leave their clubs for Premier League salaries, for a PL team.
Alessandrini has just recently been offered a mega-contract in the MLS.
Emenike was he only one actually free and Las Palmas snapped him up.

But the PL is attractive. It has the highest salaries. Crystal Palace has enough money to convince such players (or at least had, cause the transfer period is over)

Edited by mattteo (07 Feb 2018 7.58am)

You won't believe this, but bottom line is......there are only 13 PL clubs who could sign them (cause top 6 are at another level and Everton is full of stars up front).

Out of those 13 a lot tried to sign Andone, Ze Luis or Niasse this summer. The bids were insufficient.
Why didn't they try to sign players like Jony or Hernani or Alessandrini? My guess is that their recruitment system is pretty poor.
Despite what you may think of this being the top professional league in the world, we still have managers like Alan Pardew, David Moyes or Claude Puel having the final saying.

Claude Puel transferred a player to Leicester simply because he had seen his son's matches in Ajaccio.
And he liked Fousseni Diabate, his son told him that he;s great in training ) He paid 2 million for this unknown 22 year old player. He hasn't stormed Ligue 2, he's not even as famous as Lys Mousset was when Bournemouth bought him. There are more 22 yo players out there who have played better than Fousseni, but Puel never watched them.

Also, many of the 13 PL which you say could have bought them already have enough options up front.

I'd say Leicester have Vardy, Mahrez, Demarai Gray, Albrighton, Iheanacho.

Southampton has now Carrillo, Austin, Ward Prowse, Tadic, Shane Long, Redmond.

West Ham has Chicharito, Antonio, Lanzini, Arnautovic.

Brighton has Knockaert, Izquierdo, Gross, Locadia.

Newcastle has Slimani, Matt Ritchie, Josh Murphy, Gayle, Ayoze Perez.

Bournemouth has Callum Wilson, Josh King, Stanislas, Ryan Fraser.

Watford has Richarlison, Andre Gray, Carillo, Roberto Perreyra.

Stoke has Shaqiri, Choupo-Moting, Diouf.
Swansea has Narsingh, Tammy Abraham, Andre Ayew.
WBA has Chadli, Matt Phillips, Sturridge.
Huddersfield has Mounie, Tom Ince, Pritchard.
Burnley didn't really have good attacking players except for Chris Wood, but now bought Lennon and N'Koudou.

For Crystal Palace, good attacking players for the Premier League I see only Zaha and Townsend. Therefore, making it the club with the most pressing need to strengthen in the offensive area. Other clubs may not have pursued attacking players because they didn't need them.
I'd take all of the above mentioned players at Palace. Maybe not as starters, but they'd surely be handy in the squad.

Who would have thought this unknown guy would make the German national team 27 men preselection squad for the World Cup?
Ahead of strikers from Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund.

Actually, where are now all the suggestions I gave on this thread or on other threads? What have these strikers done instead of Benteke?

Edited by mattteo (16 May 2018 9.24am)

I don't know who Dougie is or how to reach him.
I doubt he'll listen to me or read my mails anyway. Thing is...people at every club think they know best, they're not going to listen to a stranger's opinions.

I don't need a job in football. I just like to share my opinions with fellow football fans. And prove that I'm right! It's a good feeling

Edited by mattteo (16 May 2018 1.12pm)