If you could buy a player now

[Jayesh87]

David Villa

[Bob]

Ian Rush

[G_Man]

David Villa

[animal magic]

ronaldinho

[Bender]

Lionel Messi

[x0x]

IGOR BISCAN

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[einar]

some young african kid. Goes by the name of mohamed sissoko. Reckon hes gonna be a great player

Does the same job in a very different way.

Think he will end up being bigger then Hamann though.

[Sir Bob]

I'd have Henry if I could have any player. He's the best striker in the world & is tried & tested in England. What more could you want.

[puredale]

Our problem today was in front of goal. I would bring in a world class striker.

Yep - goals is what we need - Henry

[Charlie_B]

I think what we are missing is Harry. Last year we began our great run when we moved Stevie to the right and Kewell came back into the squad. He was an ever present and really contrubuted to the team work ethic. He didn't always get on the scoresheet, but I really think that he is an important cog in making us tick. Our left side has certainly been the problem this season, but its due to injuries not having the players. With a fit Riise and Kewell and we are still unbeaten since March, maybe even still on our winning run.

I also think we are pretty far from full fitness. I know other clubs had to deal with the WC, but I think that it has hit us particuraly hard. Especially when you consider the last international break as well. When we get good ol' 'arry back and we start to regain full fitness sometime in Oct, we have a two games a week for the foreseeable future, we will start to click just like last season. Unless Rafa is right about it taking less points to win it this year, I don't see how we can catch up.

Are you Australian by any chance?

[saveferris]

Thierry Henry

[MrMichael]

I said this in another thread:

I've always thought we needed a little more creativity in the middle of the park. Alonso sits back, break up play and then sprays the ball around but offers little going forward. Momo is a workhorse again breaks up play and covers every blade of grass on the pitch but doesn't pass the ball well and won't score goals. Gerrard is our talisman almost the complete midfielder. Dynamic player with a great eye for goal and range of passing but always wants to try the hollywood pass or shot on goal instead of sometimes doing the simple thing. This is why he is not yet the complete worldclass player. He lacks the discipline to be the very best central midfielder and does tend to go AWOL sometimes in the biggest premiership games. I am not having a pop at Stevie but trying to be the devils advocate here. He is an essential part of the team but as is said on here on a regular basis I think Rafa is baffled at how to accomodate him. I think with these 3 players the team is not balanced enough. The creativity we need in the middle needs to be a bit more subtle than what Gerrard gives us. I have always been a massive fan of Pablo Aimar and still cannot fathom why we let him go to Real Zaragoza. Surely he could have been a very useful addition to the squad and the player I believe with the guile who could have unlocked the Chelsea defence today

Apart from Garcia, who, much though I love him, just ain't in that class, this is the one area of the park I think our current squad is truely deficient.