One striker or two?
June 5th, 2011 | 18 Comments |
Gervinho rumours persist but what do Newcastle United in terms of strikers anyway?
The French press are announcing the ‘imminent’ arrival of Gervinho at Newcastle, which sounded promising until I noticed they got their information from Sky Sports.
Allegedly we’ve made a €16m bid for the player (£14.25m) – which may be true – but I can find nothing to confirm that Gervinho will be on Tyneside at all, let alone imminently.
But what do we need in terms of strikers anyway? And what sort of formations is Alan Pardew likely to consider?
For most games last season we played two up front, even after our (then) top scorer was sold to Liverpool.
Last season we used the following strikers:
– Ameobi, scoring 9 goals in 30 games,
– Lovenkrands, scoring 7 goals in 29 games,
– Best, scoring 6 goals in 12 games,
– Ranger, scoring 1 goal in 28 games (most of which were as a sub), and
– Carroll, scoring 11 goals in 20 games.
And our top scorer turned out to be a midfielder in the shape of Kevin Nolan, who scored 12 goals in 32 games. (more…)