You might not agree with me gomito mate...but thats quite an unfair judgement.If the player is good enough,he can perform in any stage.Rooney and Torres does fit that category and more.
Benzema hasnt light up the international stage yet with Les Bleus and perhaps he will come the Euro Championships.Having said that,Rooney and Torres are certain starters when fit for their countries respectively.
At 22 years old now Wayne Rooney has played 250 games,scored 91 goals and 48 assists in his career so far,excluding 41 games and 14 goals for England.
I didnt do a check on Karim Benzema but I bet,he is not even close to Wazza.
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btw guys why do u want a "pure striker" so badly? it's not the first time i read u would like a van nistelrooy or a villa.... u do realise that having that kind of player would mean completely change your gameplan?
in the past 4 years man utd gave itself a specific "dna", based mostly on fast ball circulation and mobile fowards, who don't give any benchmark to the opponent defenses. u worked on this system for 4 years and improved it till the perfection.
buying that kind of striker would mean dumping all this work and starting again, working on a new system....
is that what u want??
benzema is a marvelous player. he has the potential to become one of the best strikers in the world..... and even now he already is very close to the best strikers in the world (despite being so young).
benzema already became a starter in french NT.... and, with all the respect for england NT strikers, with henry, trezeguet, and anelka, it's not an easy game to get a starter's spot in france NT (as Gomito pointed out
Phrase, those strikers u mentioned before (except amauri) are not as good as benzema, neither have the potential to become as good as him (imo).
elmander and huntelaar are very good and promising players, but they don't have the same technique amauri and benzema have (but i have to say i can't talk about manucho, coz i did never see him playing).
amauri at the moment is even better than benzema... but amauri is already 27 so that's pretty normal.
btw guys why do u want a "pure striker" so badly? it's not the first time i read u would like a van nistelrooy or a villa.... u do realise that having that kind of player would mean completely change your gameplan?
in the past 4 years man utd gave itself a specific "dna", based mostly on fast ball circulation and mobile fowards, who don't give any benchmark to the opponent defenses. u worked on this system for 4 years and improved it till the perfection.
buying that kind of striker would mean dumping all this work and starting again, working on a new system....
is that what u want??
wich other striker? u mean elmander and huntelaar?
mate i didn't say benzema is a world class striker... i said he has to potential to become one of them... but if u'll read a post i wrote yesterday on the serie a thread, u'll also notice i don't consider the "potential" as a reliable factor.
nontheless, his touch, his presence in the box, his ability in keeping always the right distance from the cbs.... theese are qualities he already has....
i love elmander and i have high expectations on huntelaar.... but watching them playing, u just realise karim is a more complete player.
of course he still has a lot to work. afterall he's just 20.
the point mate, is that having a physycal striker, who can hold the ball and work as a benchmark player would completely change man utd's gameplan. working on new movements, new kind of cuts from the side players (actually with a "benchmark striker" the wings shouldn't cut at all)... an new playing philosophy.
and no team in the world plays with 2 different playing philosophies, according to the players lined up. With a different line up, u might change some movements, the attitude of the team, but not the "core-philosophy", not the "dna" of the team. because behind that core-philosophy there are weeks, months, years of training and tactical sessions. this time is needed to let the players do "automatically" what the coach asks.
just take a look at roma. many people keep saying they need a tall physical striker, who might help the team in some situations. and that's true.
but a tall striker would also change for ever roma's football, because the reason why they play that awesome first touch football is exactly coz they miss a benchmark striker upfront.
man utd football is completely different from roma's football, but exactly as it happens for roma, the reason of their good points and weakness is the same; the lack of a benchmark striker. if they would get one, they would gain something.... but they would also miss something else.... and i don't think it's worthy
going for long ball for the striker is not really a philosophy, neither a game system. and it doesn't imply new movements from all the players. it is just a slight movements change by 2\3 players. the players don't have to learn anything new so it's possible.me said:
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