442 to take us forward

[FatTony]

Rafa's insistence in playing with a lone striker is holding us back. I'm not saying that it doesn't work on the pitch because with Gerrard playing behind him and a fully fit 11 we can beat anyone, but we'll never be able to attract another top striker to sit on the bench.

When he's injured we're left with young inexperienced potential, or 2nd class experience.

If we brought someone in of the quality of Eto/Villa to play alongside Torres, Gerrard could still play a more forward role (though not as free running as he is now) as a quality partner would help pin the opposition back a yard or two.

But then where would that leave Aquilani fit in?

[Exiled_red]

Rafa's insistence in playing with a lone striker is holding us back. I'm not saying that it doesn't work on the pitch because with Gerrard playing behind him and a fully fit 11 we can beat anyone, but we'll never be able to attract another top striker to sit on the bench.

When he's injured we're left with young inexperienced potential, or 2nd class experience.

If we brought someone in of the quality of Eto/Villa to play alongside Torres, Gerrard could still play a more forward role (though not as free running as he is now) as a quality partner would help pin the opposition back a yard or two.

But then where would that leave Aquilani fit in?

Where do we get the money from for that?

[FatTony]

Where do we get the money from for that?

Rafa normally has between 20m and 30m to spend. We need to offload one or two players which we could make do without (Babel, Voronin, Dossena). The rest of the squad would be fine with the addition of another top quality striker.

[Exiled_red]

Rafa normally has between 20m and 30m to spend. We need to offload one or two players which we could make do without (Babel, Voronin, Dossena). The rest of the squad would be fine with the addition of another top quality striker.

Not this summer

[carheex]

Where do we get the money from for that?

We could sell Gerrard & Torres....

[FatTony]

I am a cock....

[cream]

Not this summer

And for the foreseeable for future.

[red g]

And for the foreseeable for future.

thought it was this week?

[saveferris]

This would work if we are not playing Torres...yesterday we would have benefitted from playing 4-4-2 as I dont feel any of Ngog, babel or Voronin can play the lone striker role. However Torres (even for Spain) I feels plays better with someone playing off of him a little deeper.

[kev776]

Rafa's insistence in playing with a lone striker is holding us back. I'm not saying that it doesn't work on the pitch because with Gerrard playing behind him and a fully fit 11 we can beat anyone, but we'll never be able to attract another top striker to sit on the bench.

When he's injured we're left with young inexperienced potential, or 2nd class experience.

If we brought someone in of the quality of Eto/Villa to play alongside Torres, Gerrard could still play a more forward role (though not as free running as he is now) as a quality partner would help pin the opposition back a yard or two.

But then where would that leave Aquilani fit in?

------------------Pepe

Johnson---Carra--------Agger-------Aurelio


----------------Mascher


---Aqualini------Gerrard----------Benny


-----------Kuyt---------Torres

[Icon]

I loathe our single striker formtion.

All our best teams played with 2 - as do everybody elses!

[fah-q]

I loathe our single striker formtion.

All our best teams played with 2 - as do everybody elses!

The dutch team of the 70's played with no striker

[dww]

Manchester United and Chelsea in the last few years have played with one up top. As arguably have/do Barcelona. All as we are all aware totally useless teams.

[Joe King]

The dutch team of the 70's played with no striker

Manchester United two seasons ago played with no strikers

[The Erectile Banana]

Manchester United and Chelsea in the last few years have played with one up top. As arguably have/do Barcelona. All as we are all aware totally useless teams.

Dunno. I always thought Barca were fairly handy.