Torres scores every 1.7 games this season in the Premier League, the same ratio as Giroud, there is NO problem! You keep going on as if its a major problem when the facts are we are 2 points off the lead and been a club who has not had run away goal scoring striker for a while now yet won titles along the way. I think you'll find every area of our team chip in with a healthy amount of goals and one certain player has improved/will improve on his tally massively. Hazard last season 9 league goals this season 8 already so should easily reach 15 goals. The lack of striker goals will become a problem when Chelsea stop becoming a threat.
Willian looks to be an excellent signing and Schurrle is a young lad and will only improve. You forget we have 3 attacking midfield positions so need more players for them positions than the striker one.
None of your strikers have scored away (at least that was true a week or so ago) all season. That speaks volumes really - something like that would be unacceptable for Sunderland, never mind Chelsea. You have the worst goal difference in the Top 4, and you have also scored the least. Your top scorer is the joint-6th highest top scorer in the league, and your highest-scoring strikers have scored less than Jay Rodriguez, Gouffran, Hooper, Coleman and Charlie Adam. Need I go on? Oh, and that comparison with Giroud isn't really valid because Giroud has started/played a lot more games than Torres this season, so he's bound to have a lower goals:games ratio. That's akin to comparing someone with one goal in one appearance and fifty goals in fifty appearances and saying they're the same quality. I appreciate you're being patient with Torres, Eto'o and Ba, but the fact is, you're really lacking a top class striker. If you had signed one at the start of the season, and they had hit the ground running, you would probably be ten points clear at the top by now.
And as for the attacking-midfielder debate, it's good having the necessary depth, but that's doesn't mean you need to splash out ?50 million to achieve that. Most teams have depth, but they don't have the situation where top class players (signed for ?20 million) are left on the bench week in, week out. For three attacking-midfield positions, you now have Lampard, Oscar, Mata, Sch?rrle, De Bruyne, Hazard, Willian, Bertrand (and Piazon, Atsu, Marin and Moses on loan) who can all put in a decent shift there.
Yeah, no. Jos? Mourinho isn't going to sign big names like you want to win it. He's building a team with a system. Jackson Martinez would become anonymous in our current system, if you've bothered to notice. Pogba is 21, so if we pay buttload for him, he'll be here for years. That means there won't be a place for Nathan Ake, Nathaniel Chalobah, Lewis Baker, Ruben Lotus Cheek, Charly Musonda. Out of all these a couple are bound to make it to first team. That's why Guarin, 27 y/o with all around skillet.
I'm literally sick of people wanting big names, be it midfield or Striker. Without any tactics sense at times.
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What is this system everyone's talking about? And where are you getting it from? Could you please explain this system to me? And I really doubt Mourinho cares about the youth, he's never been one to develop youth (as I've said in the United thread). You just have to see his treatment of Kevin De Bruyne this season!