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lambert went ultra defensive at villa, as soon as sherwood took over and went on the attack benteke was the most inform striker in the prem. As BR likes to attack and we have more creative players than villa one would hope benteke can kick in loads of goals. He is a beast of a player and only going to get better. I'd pay the release clause, might not be worth it but most prices are over inflated . Will Rodgers play to his strengths if he is signed? If we left with Sturridge, Origi, Ings and Benteke after the window shuts - will he play two strikers? I just can't see how all these guys will be happy if he keeps playing 1 up top as he has done this season.
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noun [oops]·trar·i·an \kən-ˈtrer-ē-ən, kän-\.
If all else fails say that word outstanding a couple of times. The more you do the more you will believe your own spin.
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Dear KingofTheKop
What is Benteke worth in your opinion?
The Borini example was meant as a joke or a failed attempt at sarcasm, get it (smiley)?
Benteke has had 3 Seasons in the BPL.
How many games are there in a season, multiply that by three and your answer is? Now deduct the 99 games that he played from the amount and you will see how many he missed (note that excludes cup games etc).
Here is how I look at it.
Lets take last seasons 38 games in the BPL he scored 10 goals - yes he was injured. But he scored 10 goals and that is only 3 goals more than Borini did in the same season for a weaker team. Now that must be BS reasoning lol.
Now season 1 - 23 goals Excellent. Season 2 - 11 goals World Class lol and roll on Season 3 - 15 goals whoop dee fvcken doo. Let's see now we can use stats to work for our argument or against and ....
More insults didn't expect anything else old chap. I await your informed reply (sarcasm)
114 games over 3 seasons. That means he's missed 15 games or 5 a season average. Not too bad IMO and not unusual for players to miss that amount of games in a season.
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lambert went ultra defensive at villa, as soon as sherwood took over and went on the attack benteke was the most inform striker in the prem. As BR likes to attack and we have more creative players than villa one would hope benteke can kick in loads of goals. He is a beast of a player and only going to get better. I'd pay the release clause, might not be worth it but most prices are over inflated . Will Rodgers play to his strengths if he is signed? If we left with Sturridge, Origi, Ings and Benteke after the window shuts - will he play two strikers? I just can't see how all these guys will be happy if he keeps playing 1 up top as he has done this season. I agree with EMP (not on the release fee though as it's way too high and we need to knock that down a bit). I don't think Rodgers will continue with 1 up front next year and I think he only did last year as he was kind of forced into it.
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Number 1 choice for me is Higs. He is 27 in his prime. Signing him is signing the finished article which is what we need. It would be expensive but well worth it imo as he can put us in the champions league with his goals.
Back to Back World Champions baby!
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lambert went ultra defensive at villa, as soon as sherwood took over and went on the attack benteke was the most inform striker in the prem. As BR likes to attack and we have more creative players than villa one would hope benteke can kick in loads of goals. He is a beast of a player and only going to get better. I'd pay the release clause, might not be worth it but most prices are over inflated . Will Rodgers play to his strengths if he is signed? If we left with Sturridge, Origi, Ings and Benteke after the window shuts - will he play two strikers? I just can't see how all these guys will be happy if he keeps playing 1 up top as he has done this season. I agree with EMP (not on the release fee though as it's way too high and we need to knock that down a bit). I don't think Rodgers will continue with 1 up front next year and I think he only did last year as he was kind of forced into it. I don't think he was forced to play 1 up, if he just had a little more faith in the other strikers and try to play 2 up top, who knows it would've worked, because Danny was injured he didn't want to take the chance.
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lambert went ultra defensive at villa, as soon as sherwood took over and went on the attack benteke was the most inform striker in the prem. As BR likes to attack and we have more creative players than villa one would hope benteke can kick in loads of goals. He is a beast of a player and only going to get better. I'd pay the release clause, might not be worth it but most prices are over inflated . Will Rodgers play to his strengths if he is signed? If we left with Sturridge, Origi, Ings and Benteke after the window shuts - will he play two strikers? I just can't see how all these guys will be happy if he keeps playing 1 up top as he has done this season. I agree with EMP (not on the release fee though as it's way too high and we need to knock that down a bit). I don't think Rodgers will continue with 1 up front next year and I think he only did last year as he was kind of forced into it. I don't think Rodgers was forced to play with only one striker as he had 3 (Borini, Balotelli and Lambert) who he brought in while in charge, at his disposal and rarely used them. I actually think he was forced to play 2 when non of Suarez and Sturridge could be benched.
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That's why I said 'kind of forced'.
For me he would have been better playing 2 up front last season regardless of who they were or by playing a striker instead of Sterling when going 1 up. But if you look all the way back to the Spurs game, arguably our best performance last season, we had 2 up top and I think that's how he wanted it all season and will next.
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That's where I have a problem. Will buying another striker force his hand / change his team selections or will we have another situation where 3 strikers are fit but not trusted to play?
noun [oops]·trar·i·an \kən-ˈtrer-ē-ən, kän-\.
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Well we have at least umpteen midfielders in the squad now, so how many strikers can be fitted into the starting XI do you think? 
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lambert went ultra defensive at villa, as soon as sherwood took over and went on the attack benteke was the most inform striker in the prem. As BR likes to attack and we have more creative players than villa one would hope benteke can kick in loads of goals. He is a beast of a player and only going to get better. I'd pay the release clause, might not be worth it but most prices are over inflated . Will Rodgers play to his strengths if he is signed? If we left with Sturridge, Origi, Ings and Benteke after the window shuts - will he play two strikers? I just can't see how all these guys will be happy if he keeps playing 1 up top as he has done this season. I agree with EMP (not on the release fee though as it's way too high and we need to knock that down a bit). I don't think Rodgers will continue with 1 up front next year and I think he only did last year as he was kind of forced into it. I agree wilkij, think it will defo be two up front if not playing 433
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