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Never gonna happen. He's a between the penalty boxes player (meaning he never ventures wide of the imaginary lines between penalty box to penalty box) which, whether you agree with it or not, is pretty much what Brodge detests. Forwards in his system have to be able to operate across the front line, have to be great with the ball at their fete, and have to be able to pick it up wide and make things happen.

Benteke's a goalscorer for sure, but he's not even remotely the sort of forward Brodge would go for. Especially after the debacles of Lambert and Balotelli - two players who operate in a similar number 9 fashion to Benteke.

We're linked with Lacazette which is exactly the type of forward Rodgers loves. Shame he'll be to expencive or move to a CL club.
Should have gone for him last season when the quoted fee was 15-20 mill.
 
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Great header. We'll struggle with him next weekend.
Lovren & Skrtel are best suited to playing Benteke. Agbonhalor got injured today and he usually reserves one of his few decent games for us. Sanchez sent off but he is shit anyway.

We need to find some form and goals v Newcastle to take us into the semi, Villa are no pushovers at the moment.
 
Lovren & Skrtel are best suited to playing Benteke. Agbonhalor got injured today and he usually reserves one of his few decent games for us. Sanchez sent off but he is shit anyway.

We need to find some form and goals v Newcastle to take us into the semi, Villa are no pushovers at the moment.

Sanchez was good today so it's good he's out of next week. Agbonlahor out too is a very nice bonus as his pace bothered us earlier this season. I think Grealish went off injured too.
 
Lovren & Skrtel are best suited to playing Benteke. Agbonhalor got injured today and he usually reserves one of his few decent games for us. Sanchez sent off but he is shit anyway.

We need to find some form and goals v Newcastle to take us into the semi, Villa are no pushovers at the moment.

Agree about Skrtel. Not so sure about Lovren (I'd have been happier with a fit Sakho who, I suspect, might handle Benteke's strength better) but Lovren did at least step up to the mark against Blackburn, so let's hope for the best.
 
Agbonlahor went out with cramp I think.

Anyhoo, it was interesting watching Bentekes movement today after Ryans comments.
Drifted a lot to the left and worked the channels to start attacks and cut inside.
Still think he would have suited us well and would have been a very good signing with the money spent on Balo/Lambert.
 
Injury prone no?

Also nothing like the type of footballer that will work in Rodgers style.

A better version of Ballotelli but ultimately would be another massive flop.
 
Injury prone no?

Not in the past, no. Last season was bad because he had that Archilles tendon rupture. Other than that, injuries have been cited (source: transfermarkt) for about 5 league games in 3 seasons in the league (knee, groin). Remains to be seen if the Archilles injury might be a recurring problem in the seasons ahead, but he wasn't injury-prone prior to it. He actually hasn't missed too many league games besides the major spell out from the rupture and a 3-game suspension for a red card.
 
Not in the past, no. Last season was bad because he had that Archilles tendon rupture. Other than that, injuries have been cited (source: transfermarkt) for about 5 league games in 3 seasons in the league (knee, groin). Remains to be seen if the Archilles injury might be a recurring problem in the seasons ahead, but he wasn't injury-prone prior to it. He actually hasn't missed too many league games besides the major spell out from the rupture and a 3-game suspension for a red card.
Well that's good but that is a tough injury to come back from. Still isn't suited to us at all
 
For once, yep. He's a fucking great player. And I'm claiming this one if we ever sign him.
 
We could do a lot worse, but we've already seen the problem of having strikers who do not fit this system first hand this season. Getting a better version of the wrong player isn't going to solve anything, and before anyone says, 'well, change the system', we've also seen that Rodgers is unable to adjust his tactics to allow for a physical CF.

He's shipped out Carroll.
Refuses to start Balotelli
Signs Lambert as a plan D.

Despite his qualities, Benteke under Rodgers isn't going to be a success.
 
Benteke has pace and movement with clever feet. Of course he'd fit in.

And I'll bagsy Delph if we sign him. I've long since appreciated is talents.
 
Benteke has good pace, movement and feet for a big target man. It's still the wrong the sort of striker for us. We need a 22 year old Carlos Tevez. I don't know who that is, but a player of that type.

Delph I agree with, but he's signed a new contract now and I don't want to pay near the fee Villa will want. Think Lallana, Downing, etc.
 
As impressive as Benteke was, I think the way we played, and our defensive 'organisation' made him look like a world beater.

Who told Emre Can to play as a wing back in the first half? What sort of fucking thinking was behind that?

Even a mediocre side like Villa took about 5 minutes to see and rape the enormous gap down our inside right, culminating in the goal. Which Villa scored from taking a throw in and a couple of flick on's/

Joga bonito it wasn't. It didn't need to be anyway.

Benteke's a good striker, but we turned him into fucking Pele the way we huffed around.
 
Christian Benteke.

24 years old. Has an almost 1 in 2 scoring rate over the course of his Premiership career despite some serious injury problems.

In his first season he hit 19 goals in 34 games (104 shots)

In his second season he only played 26 games, scoring 10 from 67 shots.

This season he's got nine goals from 65 shots over 23 games.

The running total is 38 goals in 77 games.

He doesn't have the same hype around him that he did after his first season but for me he's still an attractive proposition.

Fully fit and playing in a side like ours that can stretch the field he could be a very good option to consider this summer with two years left to run on his deal

We don't need players who see more of the Dr then they do green grass, If he can stay fit, he is up there will all the other realistic candidates.
 
It's Silver Seans fault.

The more football he sees the less he knows.

It's no surprise to see the brains trust on the site agreeing with him.

@Piedro knows his shit.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Never known anyone miss the point so consistently. You are precious. Please don't change.
 
dom king has *confirmed* that we want to sign Mephis, ings and bentake


Out going Lambert, Borini, Balotelli, Aspaz - I'd take that.
Have to go back to two up top though (and hopefully fuck off 3 at the back).
 
Out going Lambert, Borini, Balotelli, Aspaz - I'd take that.
Have to go back to two up top though (and hopefully fuck off 3 at the back).


Despite how unrealistic this is, there's a slight issue with going to two up front, selling four strikers and only buying two.
 
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