AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Ranger's failure to make the expected progress has created a bit of a problem. I'm sure the hope would have been that he'd have got ahead of Best by now, but he hasn't. If he had, we wouldn't have needed to consider loaning him out. Substitute Shola for Best, if you happen to think he's the weaker of the two. (though I'm pretty sure Pardew doesn't see things that way) I would spin it the other way, if the rest of our strike force wasn't so appalling we wouldn't be expecting a 20 year-old kid to do anything very much. I'm pretty sure he would have already been loaned out if we weren't so short up front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlacknWhiteArmy Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Buy 2 new, quality strikers. Keep Ameobi and Best as backups Get rid of Lovenkrands who is now ineffective Send Ranger on loan Just really echoing what 95% of people have already said but meh. How do you get rid of Lovenkrands? His contract runs to next summer, can't see anyone wanting him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pleno1 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 We have some great crossers in the club now and players to play off a front man (Ben Arfa/Ireland/Nolan) could bringing Shearer back for 6-12 months next year as a proper number 9 be that bad of an idea, he will still be great in the air and an obvoous targetman. Anyone got any thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlacknWhiteArmy Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 We have some great crossers in the club now and players to play off a front man (Ben Arfa/Ireland/Nolan) could bringing Shearer back for 6-12 months next year as a proper number 9 be that bad of an idea, he will still be great in the air and an obvoous targetman. Anyone got any thoughts? Yeah. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alexthegreat Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 What we do with the forwards this summer is going to say alot about which direction we are heading. Since the Xisco debacle in 2008 the total investment in centre forwards has been to sign Lovenkrands twice and bring in Best for £1.5m. In the same time Owen, Martins, Viduka, Carroll have left for £44m in transfer fees and a massive saving in wages. We have also tried unsuccessfully to punt Shola to West Brom and Stoke, he is now our main man. Its incredible really that you can tear your strikeforce apart in this way and still acheive what we have managed so far this season. I think that its possible to find bargains such as Tiote in every other area of the field but as soon as anyone starts banging in goals at any level they get noticed and more often than not a £10m + fee gets slapped on them. Even a shot Robbie Keane was valued bv Spurs at 7-9m, last summer, and I think Stephen Fletcher was priced at £7m+. Simple fact is that quality strikers are going to cost a fortune, hence we havent bought any for 3 years. The state of our forward line cant be ignored any longer though, but is Ashley really going to splash big money on two strikers? If he does then I could start to think that European qualification might possibly be acheivable with Ashley in charge, if not then I'd think that this season is probably as good as it can get. Will be very interesting to see what happens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 We have some great crossers in the club now and players to play off a front man (Ben Arfa/Ireland/Nolan) could bringing Shearer back for 6-12 months next year as a proper number 9 be that bad of an idea, he will still be great in the air and an obvoous targetman. Anyone got any thoughts? My first thought was this is tdeans back but on second thoughts it could be just the poor standard of Blackpool schooling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Shola is invaluable. He's a forward that's capable of goals, but he doesn't mind not starting/playing. He can stay forever, if he wants. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pleno1 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Guys you need to think outside the box here. (Or inside it with Shearer) He had no pace for the last 3 years of his Career and you all thought he was amazing, we had lots of narrow players that were unable to give him good deliverys, he would often be on the touchline giving the best delivery in the club. Now we want to play with one big man, why not put him in? He is passionate/loves the club/great goalscoring record/fantastic in the air/Clinical/Good on set pieces (both defending and attacking) surely he could do a job, he'd also be a huge lift in the dressing room too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Please mate, just stop Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 WUM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pleno1 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Nobody has said any reasons why not. Please, please think outside the box, we could make this happen and we could seriously push for a top 6 position next season. Isn't Vandersar like 45? Shearer has won the league, been relegated, played in Europe, Captained his country, scored hundreds of goals, the only negative is his pace and surely we can work around this. Berbatov doesn't even run for Man United and who is he? The English Premier Leagues Top Goalscorer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Nobody has said any reasons why not. Please, please think outside the box, we could make this happen and we could seriously push for a top 6 position next season. Isn't Vandersar like 45? Shearer has won the league, been relegated, played in Europe, Captained his country, scored hundreds of goals, the only negative is his pace and surely we can work around this. Berbatov doesn't even run for Man United and who is he? The English Premier Leagues Top Goalscorer You are a fool. (Only joking, Shearer would be a sound idea) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 I could think of plenty of reasons why not actually Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlacknWhiteArmy Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Nobody has said any reasons why not. Please, please think outside the box, we could make this happen and we could seriously push for a top 6 position next season. Isn't Vandersar like 45? Shearer has won the league, been relegated, played in Europe, Captained his country, scored hundreds of goals, the only negative is his pace and surely we can work around this. Berbatov doesn't even run for Man United and who is he? The English Premier Leagues Top Goalscorer You're such a shit wum. Poor effort. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Les Ferdinand is a better bet TBH, his TV commitments aren't as much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 El Arabi? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 http://blogpig.co.uk/pics/2008/02/peterlovenkrands.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Okay guys, fess up. Which one of you opened a joke account to wind people up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Keep the lot, Ranger out on loan to someone like Ipswich or Watford. Bring in one top quality striker to play up top on his own with Best and Ameobi as back up, Loven if we get desperate. Then have Ireland and Ben Arfa to play off the striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Okay guys, fess up. Which one of you opened a joke account to wind people up? The email on his profile links to a lad in Blackpool off FB, given our next opponents.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pleno1 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Blah blah blah, nobody has given me a reason why he wouldn't be perfect (except pace) blah blah blah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Pitiful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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