Sentences with phrase «striker options»

"Striker options" refers to the different choices or players available for the position of striker in a sports team, usually in football/soccer. Full definition
If there are better striker option, why not go for it.
From the onset, we were short on striker options.
If we off - load 3 or 4, get a decent striker option and a couple of clever squad signings I will be relaxed.
So as I said time to get over benzema and try to find other options, one could be signing a winger like Pedro and giving Theo more chance as a striker
Though Wenger is frustrated at the shortage of striker options available in the market, he knows pretty well that Benzema could be one signing that he could least afford to miss.
What is worse is that the two players in doubt are pretty much our only real striker options in Alexandre Lacazette and Danny Welbeck.
As a second note I think Theo and Alexis are good second striker options.
Therefore, I am advising the Boss to look at the signing of a 3rd striker option for Arsenal holistically.
If (and I really hate saying this) Alexis is out or injured then Theo plays — he is our best wide 2nd striker option after Alexis.
In their past two fixtures against Aston Villa and Ludogorets, the 4 -3-3 hasn't worked, and Brendan Rodgers has in fact reverted to the diamond in the second half, despite not currently having great striker options because of Daniel Sturridge's injury...
The club also doesn't have any other striker options apart from Mertens, Milik and Pavoletti.
The move comes as no surprise given the lack of striker options at Lennon's disposal, and with Craig Davies» hamstrings seemingly made out of cheese Heskey is an inexpensive and vastly experienced option to bring in at this time to perform a similar role.
The sales of Giroud and Walcott, and the loan of Akpom have left us with very few striker options and the unforeseen injury to Lacazette has suddenly highlighted our lack of cover in the striking department.
If you honestly think there aren't three REALISTIC striker options that would improve the squad over Akpom, Theo and Sanogo currently... I just... I can't even!!!
We have no real excuse not to sign a better striker option then we have in Giroud.
Striker options Atletico Madrid: Gamiero, Griezmann, Torres, Angel Correa, Vietto (out on loan, will be back next year), Raffael Santos (out on loan, will be back next year)
One thing is for sure with City, Manu, Juve, Chelsea all out there looking for new striker options it wont be easy to get anyone of super high calibre without getting into a price war.
He does not have any other option rather than to buy a striker
For me if we can not sign a world class striker, I would rather use theo and giroud as our chalk and cheese striker options and afford more opportunities to akpom, campbell, wellington, chamberlain gnabry and welbeck from the flanks.
Arsenal have a lot more striker options this season after the purchase of Lucas Perez and the positional switch of Alexis Sanchez, but it looks like Wenger now has yet another choice up front with the long - awaited return of Danny Welbeck.
The purchase of Welbeck was Wenger's admission that even he did not believe his own words claiming Arsenal had sufficient striker options.
Either one of two things happened Arsenal tried to get a work permit for the kid to fill a gap due to our lack of transfer activity or Asano was always the long term striker option for this season and it back fired.
It is the equivalent of having Cazorla (arteta) and Bendtner (flamini) as sole striker options....
(And don't start reeling off the Man U and Man C striker options, they play 2 up front to our 1 so logically need more striker depth — consider the whole attacking unit).
But with Real Madrid being a bit weak (not quite as weak as Arsenal though) in strong secondary striker options after Benzema, it seems that Real Madrid officials have since gone against their decision to sell Morata this summer.
The strangest part of this idea however is that following the departure of Alvaro Morata to Chelsea, Real now only have Karim as a senior striker option at the club, although both Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are not unknown to filing the role.
It turned out to be a pragmatic window for the Hammers, rather than an exciting one, and much still rides on the continued fitness of Andy Carroll, the only remaining credible striker option in the continued and long running absence of Diafra Sakho.
Sanchez is reportedly close to joining league leaders, Manchester City who want him as they are also short of striker options following the injury to Gabriel Jesus.
Sampaoli's thinking seems to be that having a Messi replacement isn't as important as having a few purer striker options who can play next to him.
Lack of another top striker option on our bench had forced the boss to keep Alexis on the field who had no single shot attempt at goal yesterday.
In fact if you want to make a direct comparison with Chelsea you can see how Mourinho has balance in his front 3 behind Costa with Hazard on one side for flair and second striker option (for Arsenal read Alexis) and Willian on the other side.
OG can't even feature regularly for a squad that is extraordinarily low on striker options.
Actually, until Akpom botched a few plays during the Emirates Cup, I think he had AW convinced he'd be a viable 3rd striker option.
Giroud, Auba & latter Welbeck will be great strikers option and cover that will substantially enhanced the striking line capacity of Arsenal.
We had no other striker options, only cambell as a winger to put on.
Furthermore in my belief, I don't know if the Boss will not mind to reactivate his interest to sign Aleksandr Kokorin who has shown the potential of being a 3rd good striker option for Arsenal during the 2nd half of the season as Welbeck's recovery is ambiguoused.
By putting a price on the player based on talent, age, potential, etc. and that brings us back to whether or not he is worth 20 mil and he is, especially to a team that doesn't have many good striker option for example Arsenal or Liverpool.
But if the Boss did not do anything positive on this striker option for Arsenal, it will amount to a Sin against the popular yearnings of the Arsenal Gooners.
Well if your striking off Lacazette's name from our strikers option list is based on the statement of the Lyon Director then you maybe wrong.
As usual, our striker options are limited at this point due to lack of inactivity.
Probably going to be grilled here, I always read the comments but after this saga with our striker options and the hype behind morata I couldn't contain myself.
But Arsenal must have identified which striker they will prefer to sign amongst the striker options they have on their table if at all they will sign one.
Even if Danny Welbeck comes back, I believe he should be one of our 3 strikers option.
Arsenal main problem are: Off the ball tactics, height, fragile players, and not a big variety of subs, and striker option.
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