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barak81 said:
Why do we need a proven striker, why can't one prove them selves with us. Do you know who was a proven striker, Torres , Kerman , Eto, shevchenko... each will have an excuse and reason it didn't work out but the same reason is a risk you take with any proven entity. Soldardo was proven and look what happened over there. And by the way we chose the proven option with Torres instead of giving Sturbridge a chance... 
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I thought Eto'o was good for us to be honest.

 
I hope we buy him. Worked out for me in Fifa. He won the golden boot in his first season for Chelsea. [emoji3]

 
barak81 said:
Why do we need a proven striker, why can't one prove them selves with us. Do you know who was a proven striker, Torres , Kerman , Eto, shevchenko... each will have an excuse and reason it didn't work out but the same reason is a risk you take with any proven entity. Soldardo was proven and look what happened over there. And by the way we chose the proven option with Torres instead of giving Sturbridge a chance... 
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Can somewhat agree with this. Suarez, Henry, Aguero weren't Prem proven but were great in the Prem

 
Deino said:
Can somewhat agree with this. Suarez, Henry, Aguero weren't Prem proven but were great in the Prem
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Aguero aside the other two names prove my point even more. Henry was considered a flop in Italy, anyone who had seen him play at monoco would have known he should have been a striker... but he came as a non proven element. You could say the same about Suarez, decent but not one knew how good he could be. 

 
If we lose out on Morata, just sign this guy up for 60M+. Seriously, we aren't going to get the perfect striker we all hoped for, and we won't be paying 100M buy out clause anytime soon. He's a proven striker, only has to look at his record, Sure he could fail, that's the risk with most big money signings. I don't see the re-sell value is much of an issue. Ferguson bought RVP for 25M, had one great season and won the league, you don't hear people complain about what he has done after that season. If he gives us 3 good seasons, I say it's worth it.

 
icecoolguy22 said:
If we lose out on Morata, just sign this guy up for 60M+. Seriously, we aren't going to get the perfect striker we all hoped for, and we won't be paying 100M buy out clause anytime soon. He's a proven striker, only has to look at his record, Sure he could fail, that's the risk with most big money signings. I don't see the re-sell value is much of an issue. Ferguson bought RVP for 25M, had one great season and won the league, you don't hear people complain about what he has done after that season. If he gives us 3 good seasons, I say it's worth it.
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This is pretty much exactly how I look at it. Nothing is for long in football especially with strikers. Look at Diego. If we get 3-4 good years it's great

 
While I'm sure stuff is occurring behind the scenes, I'm worried we're going to lose out on a top striker and end up with a panic buy on deadline day.

 
yorkleyblue said:
I think Sturridge "didn't get a chance" was more that he just wasn't good enough, was greedy and didn't look up, and was forever injured.  But that might just be my reasons for getting rid.  Who knows what the club thought when they hived him off to the scousers?
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There is absolutely no way that Torres deserved to play ahead of him, even if he wasn't in our long term plans to bench him for one of the worst striker's in the league was ridiculous.

 
Argo said:
There is absolutely no way that Torres deserved to play ahead of him, even if he wasn't in our long term plans to bench him for one of the worst striker's in the league was ridiculous.
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If you say so, but, in my view, Sturridge was hyped beyond his abilities, and would have been worse than Torres.  For all his faults, and there were many of them, Torres at least was trying most of the time, and had a footballing brain, even if his legs had gone.  Torres has a fragile mentality, and the pressure of the move and the first match against the dippers buggered his confidence, as well as him being crocked when he cam and never recovering to his true, previous high levels.  Sturridge had way too much confidence in himself, way more than was justified by his performances, and was not a team player.  Even with the dippers, and playing alongside Suarez, he still didn't play for the team, but that was masked a lot by Suarez's performances.  And his body is made of brie, judging by the time he spends on the treatment table.

 
yorkleyblue said:
If you say so, but, in my view, Sturridge was hyped beyond his abilities, and would have been worse than Torres.  For all his faults, and there were many of them, Torres at least was trying most of the time, and had a footballing brain, even if his legs had gone.  Torres has a fragile mentality, and the pressure of the move and the first match against the dippers buggered his confidence, as well as him being crocked when he cam and never recovering to his true, previous high levels.  Sturridge had way too much confidence in himself, way more than was justified by his performances, and was not a team player.  Even with the dippers, and playing alongside Suarez, he still didn't play for the team, but that was masked a lot by Suarez's performances.  And his body is made of brie, judging by the time he spends on the treatment table.
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Torres's attitude was awful, many times i saw him not get a pass and shrug his shoulders, he made post double season Malouda look like a workhorse, and don't get me started on his "i didn't care about results" comment.

That said i'm not big on Sturridge either, but i was struggling to think of many strikers that wouldn't have been an upgrade on the rubbish Torres produced, it got to the point i would genuinely accepted Peter Crouch if it meant he did one.

 
Sturridge was too much of a ballhog. He wants the ball everytime and loves having the ball at his feet but didn't have the body or technique to compensate his ego.

Torres was poor but he tried. His confidence was at an all time low, so much so that he seemed depressed even when he lost the ball. Was on a downward spiral and severely needed several psychologist

 
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