Kosta Packet is off, Woodrow won't get you 10 goals a season, so..

[Admin]

Who is the 20 goal a season striker that Magath is going to sign that will get us out of the division?

Don't get me wrong, after watching Woodrow tonight, he reminds me of a young Teddy Sheringham, great hold up play, good footballing brain, strong, good in the air, but not very quick and again, won't get you more than 10 goals a season. However, he will be ideal to play upfront with a prolific striker.

Rodders certainly won't get you 10 goals a season, neither will Trotter, so a proven striker has to be top of our list, wouldn't you agree?

 

[Nero]

deeny Watford done it for a couple of season

O'grady Barnsley scored in a poor side

[Rhys Lightning 63]

Adam Le Fond... oh wait

[ChesterTheTabby]

Adam Le Fond... oh wait

Seriously... that dampened my day.

[YankeeJim]

Won't matter how many we score if we can't stop the other team. A top drawer striker would be nice. It would be even nicer if that was either the Greek money bags or young Woodrow. We could have Suarez and with this back line be mid table in the Championship.

If they can't score, they can't beat you.

[HatterDon]

When is the last time Fulham had a 20 goal STRIKER? You can't count Dempsey, since he was a midfielder/goal poacher. We didn't come close to a 20 goal striker in our three highest finishing seasons; why is one so important now?

[PeterFFC]

When is the last time Fulham had a 20 goal STRIKER? You can't count Dempsey, since he was a midfielder/goal poacher. We didn't come close to a 20 goal striker in our three highest finishing seasons; why is one so important now?

Well this season just finished all the promoted teams had a striker who scored around 20 goals (OK Austin scored 19 ). And Burnley and Leicester had another 15 + (or 20 in Leicester's case) striker to support the other.

[JBH]

We are still in May and you are already moaning about lack of signings!

Seriously some of you really need to get out more and see the real world fp.gif

[PeterFFC]

We are still in May and you are already moaning about lack of signings!

Seriously some of you really need to get out more and see the real world fp.gif

I wasn't moaning about lack of signings, I'd rather we took it slow and got the right people, I was saying that in the window we need to sign a striker.
Do you know when it shuts?

[Me-ate-Live, innit??]

When is the last time Fulham had a 20 goal STRIKER? You can't count Dempsey, since he was a midfielder/goal poacher. We didn't come close to a 20 goal striker in our three highest finishing seasons; why is one so important now?

Ha!!! that was the Premiership

In the promotion campaign of 2000–01 Saha scored 27, Boa scored 18  and Harry Bales  ....well Barry was a beast

[MasterHaynes]

Who is the 20 goal a season striker that Magath is going to sign that will get us out of the division?

Don't get me wrong, after watching Woodrow tonight, he reminds me of a young Teddy Sheringham, great hold up play, good footballing brain, strong, good in the air, but not very quick and again, won't get you more than 10 goals a season. However, he will be ideal to play upfront with a prolific striker.

Rodders certainly won't get you 10 goals a season, neither will Trotter, so a proven striker has to be top of our list, wouldn't you agree?

 

Glad to see someone else sees it I've been posting for the last 18 months that Woodrow is our own Sherringham, But I believe he will get you 10-12 goals a season and create/set up at least as many again

[Macedo]

Stevie May...St Johnstone....will score goals in Championship with proper service.
Derby and Blackburn in for him, lets beat them to it.
Same type as Mickey Conroy but better than him (sorry Mickey).

[alfie]

Who is the 20 goal a season striker that Magath is going to sign that will get us out of the division?

Don't get me wrong, after watching Woodrow tonight, he reminds me of a young Teddy Sheringham, great hold up play, good footballing brain, strong, good in the air, but not very quick and again, won't get you more than 10 goals a season. However, he will be ideal to play upfront with a prolific striker.

Rodders certainly won't get you 10 goals a season, neither will Trotter, so a proven striker has to be top of our list, wouldn't you agree?

 

I agree to some extent with what you are saying but to be honest we have no idea whatsoever how many goals any of those players may or may not get, cannot really say they won't get the goals but i guess we can say they probably won't, i like to retain a little bit of hope.

[JBH]

We are still in May and you are already moaning about lack of signings!

Seriously some of you really need to get out more and see the real world fp.gif

I wasn't moaning about lack of signings, I'd rather we took it slow and got the right people, I was saying that in the window we need to sign a striker.
Do you know when it shuts?

August 31st so there is plenty of time

[Craven Mad]

Who's to say Cauley can't get a good haul next year? What I like about him is he is pretty clinical in front of goal, but knows how to link-play too. Seems a nice chap too. I'd be happy to see him starting next year.

Also, I think you're also forgetting our other options. Dembele up top, Roberts centrally, Chris David at CAM/CF, and even (you never know) Tankovic if we can convince him to sign (suggestion is that we're trying). We may not need to sign a new striker..

Personally, if you want a name for a CF to sign, I'd love to see Rhodes - I know he'll be ridiculously expensive, but he is the one (somewhat realistic) striker I would take unreservedly; if Kahn wants to give us the best chance of promotion, he should be the priority.

However, I don't think strikers are an area we should focus on, I think we are most lacking across the the back line. For me, defenders are the priority. We shipped too many goals last year. An LB, RB and CB are top priorities for me, followed by a distributing CM, then a CF.

[MJG]

Who is the 20 goal a season striker that Magath is going to sign that will get us out of the division?

Don't get me wrong, after watching Woodrow tonight, he reminds me of a young Teddy Sheringham, great hold up play, good footballing brain, strong, good in the air, but not very quick and again, won't get you more than 10 goals a season. However, he will be ideal to play upfront with a prolific striker.

Rodders certainly won't get you 10 goals a season, neither will Trotter, so a proven striker has to be top of our list, wouldn't you agree?

 

Been saying this a lot recently. We need two strikers who will get 45 goals between them. I dont see any of the young guys being that prolific at the moment. They may all get near 10 and Hugo might get 15, but when you look at this list its clear you need two really.

[MJG]

Your notice from that list that the top two while scoring a lot, were for teams who failed to even get into the playoffs. Thats why you need two so that the workload can be shared and when one is injured you have another already playing.

I found some stats that over 60% of the lineups in the championship this season played with 2 up top. its 30% in the prem.

[RaySmith]

You don't know that none of our current strikers will be prolific in the Championship, or even that Mitroglou will definitely leave.

[MJG]

You don't know that none of our current strikers will be prolific in the Championship, or even that Mitroglou will definitely leave.

But history tells you that Hugo is not the most prolific of scorers, but I do think he will be a very useful player in the championship. Woodrow and Dembele are still young and learning,but are either of them going to get 20 goals based on the fact that as youngsters they are not going to play every game. Woodrow has a chance if he keeps playing as he is to be the one who plays most games, but I suspect they will be as the deeper striker. Trotta is a goalscorer and a more natural one than Woodrow I would say (not saying he's better or worse, just he is an out and out goalscorer).
Mitroglou should be able to score plenty at this level, given that the Greek league is proberbly championship at best.
So out of those guys if they all stay, I still think we need to get another main goalscorer, Thats why I will keep banging on about Rhodes till we cant get him.

[blingo]

Dembele, Woodrow and David. There are enough goals in them to win us the Championship.