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spurs9

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The tower from Anzhi??
He's shit. No thanks. I don't want another Crouch in our team
The only thing he and crouch have in common is height. Traore has a lot of strength & balance which crouch didn't for a start.

You would have also probably have called Benteke shit before he signed for Villa and probably said the same about Drogba when he signed for Marseille or Chelsea.
 

PhantoM47

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Sorry if this has already been said, but I recall reading/hearing that he's a die-hard Arsenal fan and for that reason refused to sign for Spurs in the summer? I swear I read a quote of something along the lines that he could never play for Arsenal's biggest rivals.

Maybe I just came across absolute BS.
 

dontcallme

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Sorry if this has already been said, but I recall reading/hearing that he's a die-hard Arsenal fan and for that reason refused to sign for Spurs in the summer? I swear I read a quote of something along the lines that he could never play for Arsenal's biggest rivals.

Maybe I just came across absolute BS.

From what I recall the quote didn't come from him.

If we were the best option for him and he was ready to leave Villa I don't think who he supports will be a major factor.
 

tiger666

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Sorry if this has already been said, but I recall reading/hearing that he's a die-hard Arsenal fan and for that reason refused to sign for Spurs in the summer? I swear I read a quote of something along the lines that he could never play for Arsenal's biggest rivals.

Maybe I just came across absolute BS.

Yeah but he's a professional footballer not a 10 year old kid.
 

Ossie85

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The only thing he and crouch have in common is height. Traore has a lot of strength & balance which crouch didn't for a start.

You would have also probably have called Benteke shit before he signed for Villa and probably said the same about Drogba when he signed for Marseille or Chelsea.

I saw him play against us, and he's shit. Even if he's as you say, his height would make us hoof the ball, and I hate it.

I didn't know Benteke before Villa, and I couldn't care less about the players Villa sign. And Drogba was clearly a beast before Chelsea. He played the Uefa final for Marseille.
I don't know what they have to do with Traore being shit though

We need and strong athletic centre forward. Traore is not athletic
 

TorontoYid

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We can look at all the world class strikers we want but the truth is that they will not want to play for us without CL football and we are not ready to get them yet as we need strikers that will either adapt quickly to the EPL or are already proven scorers.

The English game is very different to the Spanish and Italian leagues where you have lots of time with the ball and it is less physical but more technical. Any player we buy from outside our league will need time to adapt to the style of play. We don't have that time if we want to get to the top 4 this season. We have already dropped points we should have won but even on some of the games we dominate, too many chances are wasted. That is the only thing that separates us from the usual top 4 teams - They score more goals than we do. Not because they have more chances to score but because we waste the ones we have.

My thoughts are that if we want to play 1 up front, we need a goal poacher who will play like Linekar used to. Stay near the goal, get onto the end of loose balls and passes and bang them in from close range. Forget all the 25 yard wonderstrikes and fancy overhead kicks. The ball in the back of the other teams net is what wins games.
 
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