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Strikers, The Key For Everton

In recent times, Everton have never had a striker that consistently scored goals for a long period of time. With a successful loan spell at Goodison Park, Romelu Lukaku proved that having a player that can score fifteen to twenty goals a season can really help a team to achieve its ambitions. Lukaku was a vital player in a great season for Everton but as usual, due to our poor funds he was only on loan. With Arouna Kone being injured for the majority of the season and another loaned player, Lacina Traore only featuring in one game, it was up to Lukaku to step up. In the upcoming transfer window, Roberto Martinez needs to look for a striker who performs on a consistent basis.

The most recent Everton striker that did not perform consistently was Nikica Jelavic. When he arrived at Goodison Park in January 2012, he straight away proved to be a hit. He scored 11 goals from January to May in 2012 and was our league best goal scorer and also overall. Evertonians would have felt that we had finally found a great striker. Since then Nikica only scored 5 more goals. With a record of 59 appearances and 16 goals he fell down the pecking order to Victor Anichebe and loan star Romelu Lukaku. The lack of goals has held back Everton in recent years and if they want to succeed they need to buy a consistent footballer.

With Diego Costa arriving at Stamford Bridge, this will see Romelu Lukaku drop the order at Stamford Bridge. Everton will have to go to the bank and give everything they have to Jose Mourinho if they want to buy Everton’s 2013/14 season top goal scorer. The 20 year old who had been given the chance at the World Cup for Belgium, thanks to the injury of Aston Villa’s Christian Benteke, was under performing and in the last matches for Belgium he found himself among the substitutes. These bad performances could lower the asking price for the big Belgian. Other options for Everton could be Swansea front-man, Wilfried Bony or even Torino and Italian striker, Alessio Cerci.

Goals will be needed for the upcoming season for Everton and will a striker that can score great number of goals is sure to become a fan favourite at Goodison Park. An ideal striker would be footballer similar to Lukaku. Someone with a big build, great feet and can shoot. If we can not get Lukaku and he goes to the likes of Spurs or Athletico Madrid, which he has been linked to, we should try and sign Wilfried Bony. Wilfried who plays for Swansea, has consistently proved himself that he can be world class striker. Playing for Côte d'Ivoire in the World Cup he has shown that he has fantastic feet, great first touch that can put himself into a perfect position and a magnificent shot on him.

If Everton want to peruse in their champions league ambitions they need to buy either Romelu Lukaku or Wilfied Bony. If either of those are unavailable someone identical to these players will be ideal. I would love to see Lukaku back at the club, wearing and scoring in the royal blue jersey for many years to come.

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