Re: So what has gone wrong with adebayor?
Mate, love your posts normally even If I don't agree with all of them, but you're basically saying it's not worth going for another striker because he might not turn out to be good enough? Do you think we could improve on the strikers we currently have? And yes I do realise we aren't going to get Falcao or a player as good as him, but there are other strikers on the market.
Not really the point I was trying to make. My point is more that "it's not as easy as that" as an answer to those saying that we have to sign another striker. Defoe, Ade and Dempsey are all good players. Ade is currently off form, Defoe seems to be in a slight slump as well, but they are good players.
Finding better players might be easy, finding better players that we can sign and afford isn't quite as easy. I've said all along that if we can sign someone significantly better than Ade I would be all for it, just like I would for us signing a significant upgrade on any first choice player in our squad. Spending even £10m on a player that isn't better than Ade though is going to be really bad business and unlike some of the teams we're competing with we can't afford to just blow £10m like it was peanuts.
I would guess that AVB has a rather short list of strikers that he feels will not only give us an option for the rest of the season, but could be a longer term solution as well. Damiao seems likely, perhaps Negredo, perhaps a few more players. If Levy can make a good deal for one of those players then that's cool. If not I just don't see it as a terrible thing. Spend that money in the summer when that right striker becomes available instead.
These "he'll come good arguements" remind me of 2 seasons ago when we had Pav, Defoe and Crouch all misfiring and everyone said the same bloody thing despite the evidence pointing to the contrary. Besides blind faith, what are people basing this optimism on?
Your post reminded me of this one that I meant to answer, but didn't
Defoe did turn it around and has been a very good player for us this season. So that's one thing to base our optimism on. I thought Crouch did alright for us throughout, but I never expected him to be prolific when we signed him. Pav was always average at best imo.
Looking at Ade's record in England he was really only really prolific in one season. He's scored a decent amount every year though, as long as he's been getting games. I just see it as more likely that he will return to that kind of good, but not great form than for him to keep scoring as little as he has so far this season.
The Premier League site (
http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/players/profile.overview.html/emmanuel-adebayor) has him down with 81 goals over 183 appearances. Some of those games would have been as a sub, and he some of those were really early in his Arsenal career as he was getting used to the Premiership. That is a decent sample to look at, the 10 odd games he's played so far this season is a very small sample. In short I trust the larger sample more than I trust the smaller one.
