Pogrebynak for Fulham has scored a hat-trick today, he looks like a finisher with good international pedigree! I think Fulham got him for next to nothing, maybe the sort of player we should have been looking at for a short-term solution.....
If Rafa and Mourinho end up at Chelsea, I can see them becoming as strong as Utd and City which leaves a top 3, then Spurs, Arsenal and then us.... Can we compete? I don't think so and its only going to get harder.....
Good call but the day we start buying £5m strikers we will be branded as having no ambition by some of the posters on here. Sometimes it pays to buy a hungry player who wants a bit more pay but also loves the game he plays and wants to show how well he can do it. Doubt if any of us had heard of this guy at Fulham before he got there but they went out and got someone who suits their style of play. Demba Ba before going to West Ham is another one. Who would have thought a year on he would be banging in goals in the Prem?
The thing about it is that we are competing for top 4 or are supposed to be. There are clubs like Fulham who look to survive in Prem first. The level of players they look at are a notch or two below where we are looking but they do the business. We need to start operating at a level below where we are at the moment because when we do we will find players equal or better than Downing, Johnson, Henderson and Carroll at half the price or less. For example Enrique, Lucas, Skrtel, Agger were about £6m each.
