Gunner89 wrote:

Tactics wrote:

He's poor with his back to goal. I'd rather play Theo upfront which says a lot 'cos I'm not a huge fan of Theo in that position.

I would target Welbeck to be our back-up striker. Sell Giroud and bring in Costa or someone of that ilk.

On the other hand Welbeck is poor at scoring goals. He's English, expensive, plays for united and has a horrible goal record. God knows why one would want him.

Welbeck has scored 9 league goals from just 12 starts this season ie 3 less goals than our 1st choice striker who has started most of our league matches this season. And how many games has Welbeck started as a striker? very few. He's played a lot out wide or behind the main striker.

But forget those stats, Welbeck is a better footballer than Remy: better passer, dribbler, vision, link-up play etc and he's just 23 (Remy is 27). I also don't think playing for a crossing team like man United gets the best out of him, He would be immense in a through-ball team like ours IMO.

Utd won't sell us Wellbeck anyway, so who cares?

I like Remy, but he's poo out wide.

Been reading rumours Man United will sell him this summer. We sold them Van Judas, so maybe they'd return favour especially given the fact that he isn't a starter? I don't know, but I'd like us to try.

Remy for me is a typical counter attacking striker that thrives at small clubs. His play with his back to goal is quite poor IMO.

Nothing wrong with being a counter attacking striker.

There is when 80% of the games you'll play are not going to be on the counter.

Wellbeck is one of the very few locals in the united team. I think they'll keep him.

Remy is a better footballer than Welbeck. People on here wouldn't be in favor of it but a Remy/Giroud strike force (with Remy starting more often than not) would be pretty good.

Obviously it would be preferable to get one of Benzema/Cavani/Costa but its hard to know if they'll be available or if they will want to come here

Remy is a much better footballer than Welbeck. Obviously.

We have to blow most of our summer budget on a striker who will destroy PL defences and who's got the stamina to play at least 90% of our PL games.
The kind of striker who every player on the team knows can be trusted to score given half a chance.
No more half measures, stop gaps, journeymen or flakes.

By that I mean somebody a whole lot better than Remy

Unless we get Costa I think that ship has sailed with our dropoff in the league.

Just have to offer big wages to compensate.

What style of player is Ciro Immobile Klaus?
I never watch Serie A but he's top of the goal scoring list with Tevez.

I'd take Welbeck over Remy.

y va marquer wrote:

Just have to offer big wages to compensate.

What style of player is Ciro Immobile Klaus?
I never watch Serie A but he's top of the goal scoring list with Tevez.

Counter-attacking threat (contrary to his name!). Good player but too raw and too weak for my liking. I'd go for Alessio Cerci instead if we're shopping Torino. He's an excellent wide man with bags of pace and trickery. Reminds a little bit of Robben in his skillset but he's not an utter arsehole as a person.

But we already have an immobile striker
[takes hat]

Klaus wrote:

Unless we get Costa I think that ship has sailed with our dropoff in the league.

We'll have CL football, after that anyone willing to come to England is just going to go where the most money is available.

We need a striker that big teams will fear , Loic Remy isnt one of those. We've had Wrighty , Anelka , Henry , Bergkamp , RVP .. guess when our striking problems started ?

Ooow ooow was it when RvP left?

We also had Adebayor, don't forget that Van Persie was useless until his last season.