The way i see it we have 2 spots for strikers, One on the pitch and one on the bench, Yes we could put 2 on the bench but I think that bench unbalanced for other places on the pitch. Means we have 2 very unhappy players taking up a place on the team that could be used for a youth team player etc. We have a World Cup coming up and Lakaku needs games to give him a chance of going, Between now and January he could score quite a few goals for a team like Everton which might be the difference between him going and not going. I would rather he went to the World Cup then had a season with us, for his sake as I think he deserves it and for 2/3 years down the line for Chelsea sake
A season at Everton AND a World Cup would turn the boy into a man, He is good enough now but he is just not ready yet, If we had the Champions League final tommrow against Barca and only one striker, He would be good enough to play but he would not be ready to, We need to get him ready and at the moment we dont have the abilty to do that.
Of course Rooney is picking up injuries and dont look like the player of the past, He wants to leave Utd, How many times did we see RVP injured at Arsenal? Players who are not happy often have "injuries", Its just one of those strange things that happen in football.
We might have been linked with lots of names but I think thats a mixture of fan's and media stories. There have only been firm bids for Rooney and I think thats right, After 10 years of very heavy investment and quite abit of sucess we should not be having a long list of players we are after for each place, It should be just one name on it and the only other teams that should have a chance of signing that player are Utd,Barca,Real (City and Munich are close to joining that group) and if they go anywhere else then that shows me they are not football related and if we dont get that player we should get on with what we have, Time and time again are stock reply to our cock ups in the transfer market is to chuck more money at the problem, That dont work ok lets chuck even more money at still no?
Ok lets double it and chuck more money at it, Its got to stop, If our current strikers are not good enough then so be it thats the clubs fault and they have to deal with the mess.
Yes there was other strikers available but Rooney ticked everything off the list of the type of player we needed and I do think we would have got him if SAF was there. The others was good but did not tick off quite as many boxes as Rooney.
Even with the 3 strikers we have Jose should get top 3, Thats the level our manager and team should be at. If he can not then the manager and the board have failed and should go.
We can not just keep chucking more and more money at the problem. We have to be more clincical in our signings. We either get the player we want or we make do with what we have. After all the money thats been invested in Chelsea we should be more then able to do that and if not then heads must roll. The bed has been made, We can not keep buying a new one because we can.