Make your mind up. You’re going on about needing forwards to hold the ball up as we’ll never be prolific scorers, then belittling the fact that midfielders have scored more than the forwards. If your forwards are there to hold the ball up, the midfield are expected to pitch in with the goals – that’s how it works.
What we are short of is a forward who can hit the proverbial cow’s aris with a banjo. I thought we had one with Boselli, but clearly it didn’t work out for whatever reason.
Since we got in the Premier League there has been a long line of strikers ready to turn us down, including two of the players you’ve mentioned: Zamora, who turned us down when we enquired about him whilst he was with West Ham, and Fletcher who we we have been linked with on a couple of occasions.
And be honest, would you honestly have been happy had we signed Yakuba at the beginning of the season? Considering the way he’s been playing over the past few years, I’d say his transformation has been a stroke of luck rather than any great insight by Steve Keane.
The fact of the matter is, we are stuck with what we’ve got, and if we somehow manage to stay in the league yet again, unless we unearth some wonderkid, or an amazing foreign player that nobody else had spotted, we’ll have to make do with mediocrity.
