we need a big striker not a midget one

most practical formations to accommodate Hucks are :

1. up front as one of front 2 in a 4-4-2 (in which case other striker has to be a target-man type to complement him)

2. as one of wide forwards in a Chelsea-style 4-3-3 (in which case lone central striker also needs to be a target-man type like Drogba)

A small striker only needed to play alongside big front man in 4-4-2 but while Hucks is here that isn';t what we can successfully do (we have seen in recent years that Hucks plus 2 out-and-out strikers = defensive suicide)

This is also why I would sell Earnie - he is a top goalscorer but he doesn't fit at all well into a team containing Hucks (no coincidence that Hucks' best form of past two seasons was while earnie was injured?).

Posted By: mr carra, Jun 7, 10:09:53