Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Because I watch him week in week out and see how he's able to make space for himself on the wings but ends up getting clattered and fouled. Or how he's able to drive down the right side of a defender, he has the space to pass because he's left the defender for dead but his final ball lets him down.

His off the ball movement is good. When on the shoulder of a defender players can't catch him. He picks up a lot of fouls and players usually have no qualms about smashing into him. They'd be afraid to do that on the edge of the box and would have serious problems stopping him if he's running right at them, as seen with the Chelsea goal he scored.

I could be wrong, I see little strikers like Hernandez, Defoe and Owen play that way. They don't play with the ball to their feet that much. It's just an observation.
In some ways let's hope we don't get to find out because you know who will have to be injured before that can happen. I wanted us to nick Defoe off the spuds in the summer. I know the type of player you are talking about and I agree some pace through the middle might shake our game up. Not sure of Theo is the player to do that though. Not sure if Arshavin would be so great in the middle either. He's only half the player he was when he first came here.