Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Bizarre but true. That performance against Saudi Sportswashing Machine made Redknapp lose the plot, because he was convinced for the next 9 games that 4-4-2 could actually work.
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Bizarre but true. That performance against Saudi Sportswashing Machine made Redknapp lose the plot, because he was convinced for the next 9 games that 4-4-2 could actually work.
The Moonlit Knight
Banned
I would hazard a guess that the fact we'd been playing it most of the season with VDV up top alongside Ade convinced him of that.
The Moonlit Knight
Banned
I am amazed at how many people have been up in arms over his signing to be honest. We needed an extra striker for the squad. We couldn't get our primary targets, so we got a low cost stop gap for 6 months for back up purposes. Good football sense, and Saha did his bit. It's just a shame he wasn't a right winger really, which is what we really needed.
liquid_football
Jamie Redknapp
He showed some nice goal scoring instincts,and his run of games came when the whole team was below par.Maybe if he started the season upfront he would have looked better and scored more goals.
He did well,better than both Crouch and Pav did in our last season,so I d give him a 6.5/10 for the time spent here.
He did well,better than both Crouch and Pav did in our last season,so I d give him a 6.5/10 for the time spent here.
well put!!!!
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Agreed, bang on. Always going to be a stop gap to be 4th choice striker, and did his part. Got some goals, don't know what more people expected from a 4th choice to be honest.
Spurs7891
Jermaine Jenas
I think sending that well done twitter message to Chelsea for winning the CL might have influenced us to release him.
Replacing Pavly as the 4th striker was always going to be an impossible job and so it has been proved now. We needed somone who could score goals when needed. But Saha was only good in his home debut match against Saudi Sportswashing Machine as he had something to prove. After that, he hardly looked like scoring any goals. That was one of the most pointless signing ever for us.
Replacing Pavly as the 4th striker was always going to be an impossible job and so it has been proved now. We needed somone who could score goals when needed. But Saha was only good in his home debut match against Saudi Sportswashing Machine as he had something to prove. After that, he hardly looked like scoring any goals. That was one of the most pointless signing ever for us.
SteveAWOL
Barry Daines
I was quite optimistic that Harry could get the best out of Saha when he signed for us and he showed against Saudi Sportswashing Machine that he still could produce the goods on his day.
Sadly Saha never performed anywhere near that level after that and his inept display against Norwich, when he was hauled off at half time, was quite frankly embarrassing.
Sadly Saha never performed anywhere near that level after that and his inept display against Norwich, when he was hauled off at half time, was quite frankly embarrassing.
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It's pointless getting into nominal debates about formations, but playing Adebayor and Saha up front is clearly different to playing Adebayor and VDV up front.
In any case Gutter Boy, 4-4-2 (with Ade and Defoe) worked very well in the first half of the season. Go back and check the facts.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
Thanks for the performance v Toon and the goal v Bolton, but sadly we know why the Everton fans were dancing when they got rid.
Here comes the Yak then???
Here comes the Yak then???
Great attempt to take yet another thread off-topic into a pro/anti Arry mud slinging fest
What proof exactly do you have we even had primary targets? Was Tevez one of them or was he the classic wheeler dealer last minute stroke?
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indospurs
Young-Pyo Lee
Yeah, we really wanted to get Saha, Levy and Arry - come on
Well, clearly we did!
There is a common myth running on here which suggests we had far better targets on the cards - something to which zero factual proof has been presented to date. Apart from some flimflam Tevez quotes which are quite frankly embarassing.
Having targets and having unrealastic targets are two completely different aspects
If teams such as Fulham, Everton and Saudi Sportswashing Machine can all improve their strike force on a small budget - then questions need to be asked as to what really happened forcing us to offload dead-wood off other clubs in order to free-up their wage structure and aid with their new signings
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NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
And good riddance. During the match against Saudi Sportswashing Machine I thought maybe I had got it wrong about him, but alas I was right.
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
And therein lies the rub. Just compare Saha to his replacement at Everton, there was a valid reason why Everton a team with very little money jumped at paying off Saha's contract so they could get him off their books
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Fulham, Everton and Saudi Sportswashing Machine all recruited new first choice strikers.
Fulham had lost Zamora, Everton needed a younger, quality first choice and at Saudi Sportswashing Machine Cisse was upgrading what they had in Leon Best and Shola Ameobi.
We were looking for a 4th choice striker. Someone who could come in when we had serious injuries and do something. Someone that was decent in the air and could probably play Ade's role quite well without kicking up a fuss that he wouldn't get much playing time because he was clearly a back up?
Was Saha our first choice? Our first choice to be our 4th choice back up striker? Yes, I'm sure he was, or probably very near the top of the list. Was he going to be our first choice to improve on Adebayor? No, of course not. But he was never intended to be.
The reason people say they are sure we had other targets is because we almost certainly did. Harry never signed Saha and thought 'brilliant, he'll be banging them in for me for years to come! That's the strikers sorted for the next few windows!' he just signed Saha as a back up, squad player. A bench warmer. Not a bad singing at all.
If we were going to sign a striker of real quality to start, that means they'd either be waiting behind Adebayor and Van Der Vaart for a chance, meaning they wouldn't be starting, or we'd be dropping one of Ade or Rafa when they were performing well. It's not as easy to convince someone to sit on the bench when they are clearly back up as it is to convince someone to be the focal point of the team week in week out. Everton and Saudi Sportswashing Machine had that luxury. They needed a first choice. We needed a back up.