GoonerAlexandre wrote:EliteKiller wrote:GoonerAlexandre wrote:EliteKiller wrote:When you main rivals all have strikers in the 100m bracket what do we expect for 50m ...... you get what you pay for .....
Dumb argument here, he's only around 60 mill because of the Dortmund disciplinary issues, otherwise he's 100m
Doh ...... he's cheap because he can't be relied on, can't you see the obvious problem with that ....... he's not 100m because nobody would pay that much for a 'damaged' 28/29 year old .....
Adding more 'flaky' characters PEA / Mkhi to an already very 'flaky' squad ... only a complete fool would expect that to work ..... Wongeritis
The issue, as usual, isn't the front four, it's the 6 behind them
Yes ..... but that doesn't let the front four off the hook ......
In 2016/7 Liverpool scored 78 goals and conceded 42 amassing 76 points ..... crap defense and a decent attack .....
In 2016/7 Arsenal scored 77 goals and conceded 44 amassing 75 points ..... crap defense and a decent attack .....
Over the summer Liverpool bought an attacker and an attacking midfield player only adding a defender in January ....
Over the summer Arsenal bought a striker, then added another striker in January
In 2017/8 Liverpool have scored 65 and conceded 32 amassing 57 points .....
In 2017/8 Arsenal have scored 51 and conceded 39 amassing 45 points ......
So whilst Liverpool have still conceded far to many goals, their front four have increased their contribution a huge amount ....
We on the other hand have conceded even more goals per game than last year, whilst at the same time the front four have scored massively less goals per game despite us spending 100m on strikers ......
The back six are 'shite' and deserve all the criticism they get, but let's be fair the front four are going backwards fast as well ..... if they'd scored the same number of goals per attempt as Liverpool we wouldn't be 30 points from the top .....
So here's the key statistic ..... our strikers have 6 shots on target per game, Liverpool have 6.5 ..... they've scored 65 from 182 attempts on target, we've scored 51 from 168 ...... that's 100% down to our strikers not scoring enough goals, you can't blame the back six for the front four's inability to hit the side of a barn ......
FYI - Man Utd only have 4.9 shots on target per game ..... and they've scored 53 .......
Our back six might be poor, but our front four are pretty average as well ........