Countdown Thread #2

He's just not what you call encouraging. I remember the likes of Owen, Shearer and Rooney bursting on the scene. Despite them being young they took games by the scruff of the neck and could single-handedly make a vital difference with one moment of brilliance.

If Welbeck and Sturridge are the future of English strikers then we are in trouble, big trouble.

WTBA, we must look for different things in players because I rate Danny Sturridge very, very highly!

Inter, Germany have Jurgen Klinsmann to thank for the reforms made in their domestic game which have made them such a force again on the national scene. Great article, great bloke:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8789682.stm

One player you have mentioned there though WTBA was too much, too young! Owen should have been ripping up defences for years, but what happened? Yes he got a contract at Man Utd, but can't get a sniff of the England Team!

Sturridge might have just proved (to me) that all he needs is games regularly! This was shown last season when he went to Bolton! Those Bolton fans will have expected the worst when they signed him, but would absoloutely take him back now!

I just don't see it Cas, not at all.

Daniel Sturridge is older than Thomas Muller. Muller has shone in a World Cup and performed well in the Champions League. What has Sturridge done, really?

He's nowhere near breaking into Chelsea's first team and looks destined to either be farmed out on loan yet again or used as a makeweight in a future transfer deal.

At 21 he should be further on in his development. Rooney was an England regular at 17. We're going backwards!!

Muller also plays in Germany, a league where German players get the chance to shine at a young age, even at big clubs. Players over here don't get that same chance. For the record, Muller could quite easily become another Podolski, someone else who did well early on in his career in Germany and is now an average player at best compared to what people expected of him. I also expect Kroos to far exceed anything Muller achieves in his career.

Sturridge proved last season he's a quality Premier League player, but will wrongfully struggle for first team football this season because Chelsea have Drogba, Torres, Anelka and Kalou on hefty wages who need playing first. Even at the "old" age of 21 Sturridge has the potential to become a Chelsea and England regular in my opinion.

Perhaps. It's all about opinion at the end of the day. What I will say for Sturridge is, he was certainly England's most promising attacker at the U21 Championships.

Oh, and he's definitely no worse than Solomon Kalou that's for sure!

we will pay silly money fopr foreign players..

we will pay them daft wages..

we will keep playing them even though they have/are producing little..


shearer and even cole did it season in and season out..none of these jokers can..

Don't forget Sir Les Ferdinand, 38

Teddy Sheringham should be on that list, legend!

Darren bent could be next on that list!