Clueless comments, the attacker needs to anticipate, he can see the play, the crosser doesn't always get time to look up

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Middle ground here. Benteke needed – even deserved – better service than he received for the past few seasons. However, he has also missed or flubbed far too many of the good opportunities he has been given. His hold-up play is better than that of our other strikers, but on balance I think they (Edouard, Mateta, even Eze, if he played striker) would have finished many more chances than Benteke has done.

To make a rough comparison, we all know just how hard Ayew works and how much his energy means to the club. He plays fine defense up and down the pitch and he regularly wins free kicks in useful positions. But Olise seems to possess a knack for producing goals that exceeds Ayew's. With Benteke and Ayew on the pitch, we control the ball more in the attacking half of the pitch, but with Edouard (or maybe even Mateta, or Wilf as striker) and Olise I think we'd end up scoring more goals and earning a few more points.

Benteke, apart from his first season has been a total waste of space and as someone said earlier probably with hindsight the worst bit of transfer business this club has ever done, had it not been for the fact that his goals in the first full season with us probably kept us in the EPL that year and the income generated since then by being EPL has been significant. It is definitely time to off load him, even as a free just to get away from paying the ridiculous salary that he still steals from the club each month. The trouble is who wants a striker who can't score, can't run, has no vision, is lazy, frightened of getting in to six yards box, spends most of his time when on the pitch jogging around around in circles in the middle of the park, keeping as far away from the action as possible and then when he get a chance to score he finds it easier to miss!

That’s not true. Benteke’s a better striker. Benteke in that Burnley team would be lethal. Wood is bang average.

Benteke can be useful in certain games and at certain times during the match, but what he should be is a squad player on £30 to 35,000 a week. I would have no problem with that.

But having a player on a cushy contract without getting VFM is a sad fact of the game today.

In terms of desire I would of liked to see more of the Tekker's when he bullied our defence to score for Villa at Selhurst. Didn't require service then, just had a right good go. Not sure if his move to Liverpool changed his thinking on what he should be doing as a centre forward but we haven't seen that type of play from him. Frustrating as it is clear he has it in the locker.

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