Liverpool needs to prioritise a 20 goal a season striker

[Sir X]

With two of its defensive midfielders out, and an alternate out - (Henderson) for the rest of the season according to BR ? Considering we have two healthy strikers.

Only a genius would not look to balance the team with steel and a spine.

[Sir X]

BR reject just put 2 past Arsenal in 1 min...lol... Life.

[Sir X]

BR eat your heart out 3-0.Carroll.

[Peter R]

So you're agreeing! Glad to see we have moved you to the centre!!
BTW, notwithstanding Carroll being a "BR reject", you probably forgot that a guy named Luis Suarez was on the scene that year!

[Sir X]

Glad you can see the sarcasm.

[Paul Marin]

So you're agreeing! Glad to see we have moved you to the centre!!
BTW, notwithstanding Carroll being a "BR reject", you probably forgot that a guy named Luis Suarez was on the scene that year!

Characterising Carroll as a BR reject is characteristically simplistic. While most of the fans wanted Carroll to stay (including me), the system was being built around Suarez, not Carroll. In the previous season, it was fairly obvious that Carroll and Suarez were not playing off each other effectively, Carroll's numbers did not do him any favours, with only 6 goals in 44 appearances. But more importantly, when you have a big target man, everything typically has to be set up around them. You see it at PSG now, where a nimble player like Canavani is somewhat "marginalised" with Ibra in the squad. We also see it now at LFC with Benteke being put on the bench. In systems where mobility is key, big target men typically have a hard time fitting in. So, I speculate that moving Carroll along made it easier to set the team up around Suarez. This is why he correctly went out to sign Coutinho and Sturridge. I don't think that anyone could argue (well - any sensible people) that the system LFC played in 2013 was not fine-tuned to exploit Luis Suarez's talents. But hey...I guess some would have you believe that building the attack around Carroll instead would have made more sense.

[Peter R]

EPL statistics for the last fifteen seasons.
Year end 20_ _ Winner Top scorer # goals Last Place Top scorer # goals
15 Chelsea Costa 20 QPR Charlie Adam 18
14 Mcity Toure 20 Cardiff Peter Odemwingie 7
13 MU RvP 26 QPR Loic Remy 6
12 City Kun Aguero 23 Wolves Steven Fletcher 12
11 MU Berbatov 21 WHU Demba Ba 7
10 Chelsea Drogba 29 Portsmouth Aruna Dindane 8
9 MU Ronaldo 18 WBA Chris Brunt 9
8 MU Ronaldo 31 Derby Kenny Miller 4
7 MU Ronaldo 17 Watford Ashley Young 5
6 Chelsea Lampard 16 Sunderland Lawrence/Le Tallec/Miller 3 each
5 Chelsea Lampard 13 Southampton Peter Crouch 12
4 Arsenal Henry 30 Wolves Henri Camara 7
3 MU RvN 25 Sunderland Kevin Phillips 6
2 Arsenal Henry 24 Leicester Brian Dean * 7
1 MU Sheringham 15 Bradford Benito Carnone 5

The forum doesn't display tables well, but essentially reading from left to right (of course) are: the season year end, so 15 is the 2014-2015 season, followed by the club that won and their leading goal scorer and no. of goals he scored. Next is the team that finished last and their leading goal scorer and the number of goals he scored.

I leave it to folks to draw their own conclusion regarding the importance of (a) goal scorer(s) in the team!

[Paul Marin]

EPL statistics for the last fifteen seasons.
Year end 20_ _ Winner Top scorer # goals Last Place Top scorer # goals
15 Chelsea Costa 20 QPR Charlie Adam 18
14 Mcity Toure 20 Cardiff Peter Odemwingie 7
13 MU RvP 26 QPR Loic Remy 6
12 City Kun Aguero 23 Wolves Steven Fletcher 12
11 MU Berbatov 21 WHU Demba Ba 7
10 Chelsea Drogba 29 Portsmouth Aruna Dindane 8
9 MU Ronaldo 18 WBA Chris Brunt 9
8 MU Ronaldo 31 Derby Kenny Miller 4
7 MU Ronaldo 17 Watford Ashley Young 5
6 Chelsea Lampard 16 Sunderland Lawrence/Le Tallec/Miller 3 each
5 Chelsea Lampard 13 Southampton Peter Crouch 12
4 Arsenal Henry 30 Wolves Henri Camara 7
3 MU RvN 25 Sunderland Kevin Phillips 6
2 Arsenal Henry 24 Leicester Brian Dean * 7
1 MU Sheringham 15 Bradford Benito Carnone 5

The forum doesn't display tables well, but essentially reading from left to right (of course) are: the season year end, so 15 is the 2014-2015 season, followed by the club that won and their leading goal scorer and no. of goals he scored. Next is the team that finished last and their leading goal scorer and the number of goals he scored.

I leave it to folks to draw their own conclusion regarding the importance of (a) goal scorer(s) in the team!

Well - there you go. And how many goals does our top scorer have this year in the league? 8. Cyan go far wid dat.

[Stonigut]

No yardies for sure, we have not seen a twenty a season goal scorer at any level in a while, except schoolboy football.