If We Were To Sell Crouchy...

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

I would definitely keep Kuyt...he is a legend in the making.

Aye, like Erik Meijer was.

[kewellnthegang]

Well some daft **** has to pay off that obscene contract he has just now.

Can't in a month of Sundays see Rafa signing him.

id be surprised fellai think the mikey back to liverpool one always surfaces when everyone is bored

[Shaggy]

I would definitely keep Kuyt...he is a legend in the making.

A LEGEND????

Seriously? You reckon?

[AFII]

owen has a buy out clause does he not approx 9 million???

The clause is only in effect in the summer. Last summer it was £9m and next summer it will be £6m.

It was Allardyce who said that.

I didn't talk about Owen, I only mentioned the above because it was a question about his clause.

[thekop]

If we sold Crouch in Jan I wouldn't replace him with a striker. I'd go out and buy a sh!t hot left winger. Why not play Babel up front in Crouch's place? And then in the summer I'd sell Kuyt while his value hasn't depreciated so much and break the bank for David Villa.

If it turns out that Rafa still wants another striker then Anelka would be my choice.

Torres
Villa
Anelka
Voronin/Babel

Only then would we strike fear into the hearts of the opposition.

Thats a good call ds

[Big Dave]

Get some quality width in.

We can play Gerrard / Benayoun / Babel as second strikers

[Morse]

A LEGEND????

Seriously? You reckon?

Yes I do. He has the look of Kevin Keegan to me, always running and linking up the play. In 10 years we will consider him one of our modern greats.

[Growler]

sell crouch, play babel up front, we then have a serious wedge of cash for wingers.

[fowlen]

If we were to sell Crouch, i think it would be imperative that we signed someone who is proven in the EPL. Besides Crouch, none of our front 4 have been exposed to the EPL for very long.
Kuyt is still very new, and the Crow and Torres have not yet played through the winter months!

A fourth striker from Dec to March familiar with the EPL is a must (and currently it's only Crouch).

Based on that there would only be two players to go for.....miles ahead of any others:
Anelka and Owen.

We also desperately need a creative midfielder - not necessarily a winger, but some one with skill, pace and an eye for the pass.

[Revo]

kevin davies for about a million would do for me until the end of the season. big, mobile strong on the ball, scores headers and works all the time for his team. would compliment torres and take some of the physical beatings that torres is going thru. if your gonna spend 10 million then anelka would do very nice for me but any serious money spent in january will be on a defender and another flank player.

ps i would also expect the vast majority of punters on here to look down their nose at a player like davies.

[kewellnthegang]

[QUOTE=SCOUSERTOMMY;721072]kevin davies for about a million would do for me until the end of the season.





the ale was flowing last night fella eh

[tomasjj]

If we were to sell Crouch, i think it would be imperative that we signed someone who is proven in the EPL. Besides Crouch, none of our front 4 have been exposed to the EPL for very long.
Kuyt is still very new, and the Crow and Torres have not yet played through the winter months!

A fourth striker from Dec to March familiar with the EPL is a must (and currently it's only Crouch).

Based on that there would only be two players to go for.....miles ahead of any others:
Anelka and Owen.

We also desperately need a creative midfielder - not necessarily a winger, but some one with skill, pace and an eye for the pass.

I don't get it. Kuyt, Torres and Voronin all came here without PL experience and still did well.
So I don't really see how PL experience has to be a pre-requisite.

[dww]

I agree with DS, Babel up top and get a top quality LM in.

While I agree that the left is a bigger problem if we were to sell Crouch I think we would need to find another player who would allow us to play a different game with long balls up for flick ons at times. It is always a useful option to have.

Ideally I would want someone good in the air and with back to goal. Part of Crouch's problem is not about his own abilities but the fact that other players seem unable to stop thinking of the easy option of the long aerial ball to him when he plays - so preferably someone who wasn't so tall as to have the same effect. I guess players like McCarthy and Ashton are as close to what I would want as would be available but I'm not a big fan of McCarthys overall play or Ashtons injury record.

[Revo]

[QUOTE=kewellnthegang;721097]

kevin davies for about a million would do for me until the end of the season.





the ale was flowing last night fella eh

no ale flowing here lad just an ability to look at lesser named players with reason instead of trying to play fifa 08 like most of the soft ***** on here

[Diego]

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