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View thai-eagle's Profile thai-eagle Flag chiang mai 27 Aug 21 1.46am Send a Private Message to thai-eagle Add thai-eagle as a friend

Not sure if NKetiah is any improvement on our strike "force"...

 

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View doombear's Profile doombear Flag Too far from Selhurst Park 27 Aug 21 7.20am Send a Private Message to doombear Add doombear as a friend

Originally posted by thai-eagle

Not sure if NKetiah is any improvement on our strike "force"...


Will be an improvement if only because he's a different type of striker to Benteke/Mateta. One thing he isn't is a statue!

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 27 Aug 21 7.42am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by doombear


Will be an improvement if only because he's a different type of striker to Benteke/Mateta. One thing he isn't is a statue!

Agreed.

Andy Johnson was a great goalscorer for us he was also great at defending from the front. He would run the CB's ragged pulling them out of position and creating holes in the defence and breaking up attacks before they started.

We need a striker who will work his socks off Benteke is not that type of player.

 


One more point

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View AERO's Profile AERO Flag 27 Aug 21 8.05am Send a Private Message to AERO Add AERO as a friend

No he isn't lazy like Benteke does not take much to close defender's down when out possession. Murray was a good example of that.

 

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jeeagles Flag 27 Aug 21 11.22am

Originally posted by Badger11

Agreed.

Andy Johnson was a great goalscorer for us he was also great at defending from the front. He would run the CB's ragged pulling them out of position and creating holes in the defence and breaking up attacks before they started.

We need a striker who will work his socks off Benteke is not that type of player.

Someone of Benteke's build is never going to have that kind of work rate, it would be good to get that type of player in to complement Benteke. Like when we had AJ and Shipperly.

That said, we had to churn through a lot of players to get someone of AJ's quality. Then it took a year for him to become really good. Same happened with Murray.

Both signings of AJ and Murray had some good fortune about them. All clubs need to churn through a few forwards before they strike it lucky with someone like that. When it happens it will come from leftfield

 

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View MrRobbo's Profile MrRobbo Flag Purley 27 Aug 21 11.37am Send a Private Message to MrRobbo Add MrRobbo as a friend

The only difference being is that we knew Murray was a goal scorer.

When we signed AJ he was a 3 goal a season winger. I cant imagine anyone thought it was a good bit of business.

we all know how well that turned out

 

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View Frickin Saweet's Profile Frickin Saweet Flag South Cronx 27 Aug 21 11.38am Send a Private Message to Frickin Saweet Add Frickin Saweet as a friend

Originally posted by jeeagles

Someone of Benteke's build is never going to have that kind of work rate, it would be good to get that type of player in to complement Benteke. Like when we had AJ and Shipperly.

That said, we had to churn through a lot of players to get someone of AJ's quality. Then it took a year for him to become really good. Same happened with Murray.

Both signings of AJ and Murray had some good fortune about them. All clubs need to churn through a few forwards before they strike it lucky with someone like that. When it happens it will come from leftfield

look at Rugby League players and tell me big fellas can't get around the park at speed. Benteke doesn't have the desire to do it, simple at that. That sort of striker can work in some teams, but we need more than that.

We've certainly churned through some strikers since we last had a good one, so we must be due a goal machine any time now.

 

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