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I've just read in the Spanish press that Harry is after Benzema, I don't beleive it as it is the sports paper Marca which love to spread rumours. On a hypothetical level though, do you think he's the striker we're missing?
I think he would be an excellent signing, I am very doubtful we could pull it off but he will have had a years worth of training and playing with VDV already so one would assume they have an idea of how to link up together.
Personally I think this is about as good a signing as we could hope to make providing his form stays off and he remains out of favour at Real...even then he is a long shot at best and I would expect bigger fish to be willing to take a gamble on him before we got our shot (then again I would have said the same about VDV)
I'm not so sure Madrid will be happy to do us such a good deal again after Harry's comments about Bayern being interested when we signed VDV
Benzema is the type of player UTD would be interested in if he became available. Our only chance of getting him in January would be if we were still knocking around in the CL and looked good for it next year too. Would be an amazing signing, but just can't see it!
Assuming he has or will have played for MAdrid in the CL by then and be cup tied for us anyway I doubt our CL progression will have much bearing.Benzema is the type of player UTD would be interested in if he became available. Our only chance of getting him in January would be if we were still knocking around in the CL and looked good for it next year too. Would be an amazing signing, but just can't see it!
exactly the type of player we need but would he sign for us?
I agree with the notion, VDV is certainly thriving playing off Crouch but I worry about the lack of goals Crouch brings to the table.I'm all for upgrading the likes of Keane/Defoe/Pav, but to be honest I'm really quite liking the Crouch/VDV combo right now. I think it's the best formula for us, which means for optimum performance we only need to consider a Crouch upgrade as a priority, and we all know hard it will be to find an uber striker who can hold up and provide more creativity/goals than Crouch. Ibrahimavich would be ideal but can't see that happening.
For the moment though, I'm pretty happy with VDV playing in and around, and feeding off Crouch, it works really well.
I agree with the notion, VDV is certainly thriving playing off Crouch but I worry about the lack of goals Crouch brings to the table.
Can we afford to have a lone striker who simply doesn't score goals?
I get what you are saying when you suggest we should upgrade him rather than Keane/Defoe/Pav (although we are yet to see how well VDV plays along side Defoe) but I suppose it's easier said that done to find a striker with Crouch's abilities who actually scores goals.
Wasn't Zlatan recently sold to Milan? surely he wouldn't be moved on so soon (not that he is in our range even if he were to move)
I don't know who else is availble who can optimise VDV's play in a way Crouch looks to be able to do whilst actually being a goal threat himself.
I would certainly like to see us try the Defoe/VDV combination although the lack of heading ability would be an issue surely. (aside VDV's salmon leap for the first goal against the Villians)