This thread is for sh*t and it's full of kids
Brendan on why we don't need a new striker :-
"It is no good having a goalscorer scoring 30 goals and no-one else scores - I've always been against that theory," said Rodgers.
"You are going to need upwards of 70-odd goals to be up around the Champions League [places].
"For me it is a team ethic. Luis Suarez will score goals, Steven Gerrard can score goals, young Fabio Borini will score goals - but we also need goals from our centre-halves.
"If you can get your centre-halves scoring five goals that will always add and then you are looking at your full-backs doing a bit more.
"It is a team responsibility, not just one player. You bring in one striker who can score you goals, which is great, but it's not good for the team if the rest don't score.
"For us it is trying to have players in different areas of the field who can cause a problem.
"But equally important is that at the other end you are not conceding goals.
"I think we have shown, apart from last week (in the 3-0 defeat at West Brom) when the game was broken when we went down to ten men, that we have a good mindset and been strong this year."
Have to disagree with BR here.
Firstly. The 30+ goal a season striker he talks about. He is the player who scores more or less every match. He is the man who wins the tight games. He is the man who pops up when it looks for all the world that you would not score if you played for a week. If this player scores 30 goals that leaves 40 goals for the rest of the team to score if we want to get to the 70 that BR says we need to get in the top 4.
So, to be honest I am at a loss at the moment to work out how Suarez, Borini, Downing, Lucas, Allen, Gerrard, Johnson, Enrique, Agger and Skrtel are going to score 40 between them. If you take away the 30 goal a season striker that BR talks about...they will have to get 70 between them.
If we do not secure a proven finisher I feel we will be struggling to score enough goals, thus win enough games and secure enough points to get to where we want to be.
We need a striker who can finish, so I disagree with Brendan here. Just my opinion!
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