- Aug 10, 2012
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Just how many times are we going to make the same mistake over and over again by not strengthening our attacking options?
Paulinho, while looking an exciting player, isn't exactly what we've been crying out for. In fact I'd wager the only reason we signed him was because we needed a boost in our midfield options as highlighted last season with the loss of Luka, mediocre Dembele and Sandro getting injured. Even with that, for me, we still lack a bit of creativity in there that I don't see Paulinho as a particularly great answer to. We failed to sort Moutinho and still haven't replaced Modric as it stands, one could argue a case for Holtby or Sigurdsson, but I still don't feel they're near lacing Luka's boots for the role he played. You could say we're changing formation so need a different type of player, but can't help feeling aside from Tom Carroll, we haven't enough players who will try to force the play and create something. I hope he breaks through this year, might be too soon for him though.
We still haven't replaced Berbatov though with the same quality, it's been an issue for far too long now and we've been linked with possibly every professional striker at one point or another over the past 3 years and you have to wonder why we haven't gotten anyone besides Ade over the line (and even that was a saga that resulted in him turning up unfit before coasting his way through a season at 100k per week). The price may have been value for money, but we didn't witness much of that value last season by any means.
We've had our first preseason game and still not improved in the right positions yet again, the season is around the corner and we've all been here before.
Far too many times.
Enough is fucking enough. Invest in the squad, back the manager and get some fucking shit done, it's well overdue. Patience is running out along with time at this point wrt a settled squad for the FIRST game of the season.
Luka is pretty hard to replace. And there is not meany players that are able to do what he did. If you look around the is maby Pirlo, Xavi, Luka, Xabi-Alonso and Paul scholes that had/have the ability to totaly controll game tempo by there passing ability. Nothing u find everyday on Ebay sadly