Four Strikers.

[1950]

I don't think they'd really release him, as in terminate his contract.

But if Chelsea are really going for Falcao (and/or Hulk or any other forward), someone is bound to leave. Torres, Drogba, Anelka, Sturridge, Kalou. That's a lot of bodies upfront.

[Alioune DVToure]

Thanks.

Next time I'm going to make up scenarios and start whole new threads about them.

Do it. No offence mate, but it'd be nice to have a break from your endless sarcasm.

I agree with the four strikers thing, but they all have to be happy to rotate. Maybe Tevez leaving will free up a bit more game time for all of the others. I'm happy with Dzeko and Balo, and I'd be happy for Ade to return if he can bury the hatchet with Mancini. Add Agüero to that and we'd have a top range of forwards. They'd all have different games, have a decent amount of experience between them, and the oldest of the lot would be 27.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Last night I Googled 'Anelka - Chelsea' and got the result that they had put him on their transfer list. No fee was quoted but, at 32 years of age, some teams who don't mind picking up players who have seen better days (Spurs, Bolton, Wigan ??) might get a bit of a bargain, unless he nips off back to Turkey again.

On a different track, I've been doing a lot of driving at the moment and weakened, on several occasions, by subjecting myself to the drivel on TalkSport.

This morning, however, amongst all the Tevez sensationalism, there was one interesting interlude where one of their (supposed)foreign correspondents/experts was analysing the Aguero/Tevez comparison, given City's apparent interest in Aguero. This guy reckoned that Aguero was/would be a far better player than Tevez and had "a little bit of the Van Nistleroy and Gerd Mueller in him", whereas he struggled to completely accept that Tevez was truly a World Class player.

His analysis seemed quite lucid for TalkSport, which was an interesting surprise in itself and made me wonder if, should we buy Aguero whilst, at the same time, our £50m selling price for Tevez put off any buyers, we could accomodate both of these two players in our squad ??

Under Ted's criteria of needing (at least ??) four strikers, we would have Tevez, Aguero, Dzeko and SuperMario to start the ball rolling; a prospect which I found very tantalising.

Moreover, I just wondered if such a scenario might temporarily change Tevez's intentions to leave City and, presumably, this country ??

[CityFanFromRome]

Would be happy with this stable of strikers.........

Dzeko, Balotelli, Aguero/Villa, Defoe/Vucinic. Anelka apparently available and Defoe falling out of love with Harry (and vice versa - Spurs could be tempted), Vucinic is as good as out of Roma (great record for them).

Don't we still have Caicedo, Santa Crutch, Jo, Nimely, Bellamy and Ade still on the books. Surely one of them could make our 5th striker. Never wanted to see Bellers go, anyway. Keep him, Roberto. The others can go.

I know Vucinic pretty well having watched him with Roma for some seasons now; I'm sure he'd be a boo boy at COMS two games after his arrive, he always gives the idea he's not making an effort; he's brilliant when on his day but a waste of space when, and it's often, it's not his day. Last term he managed to miss a sitter two games in a row, and by sitter I mean he was alone in front of the empty goal, a kid would have buried those...but he didn't. Then in one of those games, after missing that easy goal he took the ball 30 yards out and struck a violent shot and scored. Mad, isn't it? But that's Vucinic for you, he'll miss many easy goals and score the hard ones.

This said, he may be out of Roma but not for less than 20m euro.

[mr_nool]

They showed the highlights of the home game vs. Arsenal from the 2009/2010 season on ESPN Classic earlier this evening.
If Ade could just play like that on a regular basis, he would be a world class player. Bloody excellent, both in attack and at defending corners.

That run he did on the left wing, where hw dribbled past three or four players and passed it to SWP is fantastic. Would have been close to goal of the season if SWP had done his job.

[Moonchesteri]

That run he did on the left wing, where hw dribbled past three or four players and passed it to SWP is fantastic. Would have been close to goal of the season if SWP had done his job.

I still can't believe he missed that! I remember that run like it happened yesterday. incredible. as Ade was all match that day

[HeyMark]

That run he did on the left wing, where hw dribbled past three or four players and passed it to SWP is fantastic. Would have been close to goal of the season if SWP had done his job.

I still can't believe he missed that! I remember that run like it happened yesterday. incredible. as Ade was all match that day

Loved that run, what made it even better was that donkey bendtner trying to kick lumps out of him and failing miserably