Jamie Vardy - BBC Sport - Vardy set to reject Arsenal

[Power n Glory]

Yeah this. Yes there were other problems in other areas of our squad namely not having a fucking replacement for Santi but with all our traditional rivals faltering just having a top striker would have been enough to see us over the line last year.

There was a stat posted on here at the end of the season which said that had all shots which hit the woodwork counted as goals (applied throughout the league) we would have won the league. We create so many guilt edge chances every game and struggle to finish them; I'm sick and tired of it.

The stats are misleading. There are way too many games where it looks like we're struggling to just get a shot on target. We'd be waiting well into the first half or even 2nd just to test their keeper. There aren't many games where we're missing sitter after sitter.

[Letters]

The stats are misleading. There are way too many games where it looks like we're struggling to just get a shot on target. We'd be waiting well into the first half or even 2nd just to test their keeper. There aren't many games where we're missing sitter after sitter.

Agree, but wouldn't a top striker have made a difference in those games too?

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Exactly a top striker isn't just about finishing ability it's about positioning. What makes Welbeck a better option than Giroud is the way he makes and opens up space in the way Giroud just doesn't.

That said I certainly don't disagree that we could stand to be more direct, be confident to run with the ball more and open up space that way.

[Power n Glory]

Agree, but wouldn't a top striker have made a difference in those games too?

Probably. But if we're talking about a top striker that's dependent on service, I don't really know.