25 Jun 2016 10:19:25
Yet again we are in the middle of a transfer window and fretting about who we may or may not sign so It was interesting to read a post the other day about how big a club we are and how attractive we are to players, obviously after Vardy decided to stay at Leicester. Personally I totally get that decision and believe it would have made little difference, bar maybe two, which club made the bid.

In my opinion there are two clubs at the very top who most if not all players would love to play for at any point in their career, Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Below those two its really down to money, how much the club are willing to spend on fee and wages which would be PSG, City, United, Chelsea and maybe to a lesser degree Bayern Munich. It appears in this group though that United have not attracted the quality of player the money available to them should have done. They've made some bad choices after Fergie and been royally seen off.

I believe we fit into the next group along with maybe Juventus, Atletico, Napoli, Dortmund and probably Liverpool.

These are all my opinion and others may see that differently, I may have missed certain clubs but that's where I see us.

The point being that we are what, anywhere between 8th and 14th in the food chain with more glamour, more wages or both elsewhere along with a genuine chance of winning the biggest trophy.

So for me attracting the likes of Ozil and Sanchez says a lot more for our club and where we stand than many would think.

But it equally shows that with few top class strikers in the world and the top two having at least 2 of those strikers each how difficult it will be for us to get players of the likes of Lewandowski, Aubameyang, Lukaku, Higuian or Benzema.

We will have to take a gamble in my honest opinion which is where the difficulty lies, season before last Aubameyang did nothing, this season it turned to gold, season before last Lacazette was on fire, the opposite this season.

Then you find that striker who makes a difference and before you know it you have Ronaldo leaving for Madrid, Bale leaving for Madrid and Saurez leaving for Barca.

Pretty much every striker we are linked with you get either that player or their agent talking of going to Spain etc.

Obviously I want to get it totally wrong and Wenger to bid £60 million for Lewandowski and pay him £200,000 a week but there's more chance of the spuds winning the league than that happening. :-)

1.) 25 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 14:17:40
Good post that stoner mate

I've been thinking we may have an unbelievable striker in our ranks already n we just don't know it, why don't we move Alexis up front and go spend the money on Marco Rues? Or a winger of his Calibre, Alexis is a lot like Suarez in the way he works and thinks. If we're struggling to get hold of a decent striker then this would be my plan B

Thoughts? :)

2.) 25 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 17:58:28
I was thinking the same jegooner, and still don't see why not. He's a good finisher, great touch n dribbling, causes defenders havoc. Strong too.
But think we'll need to buy 2 goal scoring wingers on either side of him tho. Reus and Mahrez would do nicely.

3.) 25 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 18:35:43
Top post Stoner.

4.) 25 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 21:25:01
They would do nicely indeed waq:)

It may be the way to go if we can't get hold of any world class strikers.