Just buy a youth gk as back up for speroni and sign up rickie lambert

Regarding Lokilo, he is 17 and absolutely tiny. Also he is categorically not a striker ready for the PL. he has looked okay as a winger, but would get flattened playing up top.

Andre Coker is a winger as well, he has played a couple of times for the youth teams as a striker but is still naturally a predominant winger.

Kaikai was given a run out up front against Ipswich and he had one or two chances. Both of them came from him cutting in from the outside and were shots from pretty far away. He is a winger with a mean shot, but like the other two, when played centrally he doesn't have the ability to test defenders and loses his assets of pace and skill from out wide. He looked largely ineffective up there.

Zaha is probably the only winger that could play up front for us because he is pretty strong on the ball. He reads defenders well and makes decent runs sometimes. It's still not his best position because he needs someone up there with him to do the dirty work. I have seen him jump for about three headers in his career. It wouldn't surprise me if we played him up there with Ladapo if the worst happens. Maybe as a second striker or a single inside forward with Andros our wider dragging the Defense wide giving them a bit more space up top.

Great. 2 on Lapado. 2 on Wilf. Leaves Mutch free to Waltz through to score, right?

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I could be wrong but if Benteke gets injured Zaha would be striker and Schlupp or Lokilo play in Zaha position.

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Despite all this talk of doom if Benteke is injured,and he's not,it really isnot avital position in the team. You cannot manage without an experienced goalkeeper or central defenders, but strikers can be produced on the day,surely we remember a right fullback pressed into service scoring a hatrick,that story is really not that special,Paul Warhurst at Sheff Wed is the obvious example. The manager just has to make the choices from the team he has,it's not supposed to be easy

Sorry? A striker isn't a pivotal position in the team? What are you on about? We have cover in every position on the pitch except up top. Benteke scored 17 goals last season for us, name another player in the squad that could get half of that number!