Luis Suarez thread

[Ollie the Optimist]

We need defensive cover as well. Bulking up the attack won’t mean a thing if we’ve got shaky legs. We don’t want to return to the old days where we were top heavy on attack but floored easily on counters because our defence was so weak. Injuries are already racking up and it’s a worry.

last season we were defence heavy. the defence was so much better and our problems were in attack. getting suarez doesnt make us attack heavy, it gives us more balance IMO. but injuries are a worry, hopefully koscienly is just a minor one. seen him in training pictures this week so it doesnt look to bad. am sure there are decent 7 million pound defenders who we can get in as 4th choice to give us some more depth

[Özim]

one striker scored 23 goals with jordan henderson in midfield. the other scored 12 with david silva in midfield. i think i know which one is more influential.

i think its good to make people sit up. how many times do we hear journalists sneering at us. just have a look at them on twitter now, they are so arrogant towards arsenal and their bid for suarez. it shuts them up, it shows we mean buisness. Arsenal have jsut gone out and payed 40 million for a world class striker. it shows we arent going for the top four trophy, it shows we want to win and are going for it. none of this taking gambles anymore on cheaper players. world class, 40 million done. people sit up and take notice and will look at us with a bit of fear unlike htey do now.

or is it partly you are worreid that everything you say about wenger is being proved wrong. hes not winner, he wont spend, just comfortable with top four. signing suarez proves all that wrong, and you dont want to admit you are wrong and wenger proved you wrong

One the same note RVP scored 39 goals for us and scored less for Man U, thus perhaps being the focal point means you score more?

One player isn't suddenly going to make us challengers, like I said he's replacing RVP effectively, we still won't be up there we need several quality players.

I couldn't give a damn about being proved wrong, would be good if he did for a change.

[Özim]

yaya toure is the most influential player in the man city team.

aguero had a great first season. struggled badly with injury and form in a much lower scoring team last time round.

you can't call him the second best in the league based on achievements two seasons ago, that's nuts.

he has the potential to be but still needs to do it. next season will tell all.

as it stands rvp, suarez and bale are the best strikers. and let's not kid ourselves. bale is a striker in the ronaldo mould.

Yeah Yaya Toure is excellent but it's touch and go, when Aguero is playing well Man City are hard to stop.

He's done it in Spain as well and you have to look at his age, Suarez is hardly that proven either he's only been here two seasons as well and came from Holland a weaker league.

Suarez has 51 goals in 96 Aguero has 47 in 88 a similar record.

[Marc Overmars]

No doubt Suarez is one of the top strikers in the league, could even arguably be the best given what he's done in a fairly poor team.

No point scoffing at the price, the types of figures being thrown about are perfectly normal these days. I'm sure we'd have enough in reserve to buy another top player if we did spunk 40-50m on him.

[Power n Glory]

last season we were defence heavy. the defence was so much better and our problems were in attack. getting suarez doesnt make us attack heavy, it gives us more balance IMO. but injuries are a worry, hopefully koscienly is just a minor one. seen him in training pictures this week so it doesnt look to bad. am sure there are decent 7 million pound defenders who we can get in as 4th choice to give us some more depth

We have to maintain the defence and with injuries to Verm, Monreal, Kos....we're looking thin.

[Cripps_orig]

We have to maintain the defence and with injuries to Verm, Monreal, Kos....we're looking thin.

You forgot Gibbs

[Özim]

last season we were defence heavy. the defence was so much better and our problems were in attack. getting suarez doesnt make us attack heavy, it gives us more balance IMO. but injuries are a worry, hopefully koscienly is just a minor one. seen him in training pictures this week so it doesnt look to bad. am sure there are decent 7 million pound defenders who we can get in as 4th choice to give us some more depth

I thought the midfield was lacking last season as well and the goalie was pretty dodgy too. The defence improved but towards the end of the season, for the 1st half of the season I remember people complaining about the shambles at the back.

Plus what happens when we get injuries which we invariably will.

[Özim]

You forgot Gibbs

People do, except the medical team.

[Kano]

Yeah Yaya Toure is excellent but it's touch and go, when Aguero is playing well Man City are hard to stop.

He's done it in Spain as well and you have to look at his age, Suarez is hardly that proven either he's only been here two seasons as well and came from Holland a weaker league.

Suarez has 51 goals in 96 Aguero has 47 in 88 a similar record.

if you go over the past two seasons, toure has been a far more consistent presence in the team, defensively and going forward. for one reason or another aguero wasn't last season, so again, if you base it on either last year or the past two years toure averages out as more influential.

we are talking premier league here, not spain or holland.

and remember, stats don't count.

[Cripps_orig]

I agree with you, maybe I'm just thinking about what happens at normal clubs.

If we're going to get one signing then signing Suarez would be pretty good, was just hoping to see a few quality players coming through the door for once so we can believe we can pick up some silverware again.

Yeah few quality players ain't happening. Might as well go all out for Suarez and hope he improves the rest of the team