Whatevs... Of course Lewa is not as good as RVP, Cavani or Falcao ATM. But he is 24 FFS. His best years as a striker are yet to come. If I got the choice paying 25m for Lewandowski or 50m+ for Cavani/Falcao, I'd always go for the Pole. IMO the risk of Falcao or Cavani failing here is just as high as with Lewa. Rooney is declining rapidly and RVP will not have such a season again, he is entering his 30ies and some of his pace has already gone begging. Agüero and Tevez did not exactly bang in the goals at will either this season. I think many of you overestimate our rival's options. The kind of finishing we have been lacking, which cost us the season was due to the absence of any kind of deadliness in front of goal, cos we either had no striker (Torres) or Ba, whose finishing is not exactly his strength and Lamps, probably our best finisher has been absent for a major part of the season. Hence Lewandowski will be fine. Look BVB, BAyern and Real are arguably the best teams in the world right now. Neither do possess a world class striker. Cos they could do without. Bayern kicked out Barca, who got Messi, the probably best striker ever, with a strikeforce of an white-bearded Pizarro, a pissed donkey-poacher mario Gomez and the utility forward Mario mandzukic. Real, probably got the best central strikers of these, but neither Higuain nor Benzema are worldclass either. They, of course, were dominated by a certain Robert Lewandowski. Now tell me we defo need a world class striker. Their big names are Robben, Ribery, Müller, Ronaldo, di Maria, Özil, Reus, Götze, Blasczykowski. At Chelsea they are called Mazacar. Juventus Turin and Bayern won their leagues by quite a distance without anything near worldclass up front. IMO the importance of a striker's name is so overrated. Not only because these expensive Shevchenko+Torres failures. Don't get me wrong, more often than not you get a quality striker for big money. But when want guys who can do almost everything on their own, why buying a shitload of creative midfielders beforehand? Also, a striker's success is hugely influenced by luck, his confidence and form. No other players rise and fall so rapidly as strikers. You might remember a certain Grafite. his goals won Wolfsburg the league. in the decider against Bayern he did this
this guy was a nobody before Magath signed him for peanuts but he scored 75 goals in 130 games, 35 of these in that title-winning season while being the league's best striker for years. To conclude. A teams success, sometimes not even a striker's success depend on his name.