Jan Molby column: Liverpool FC need to sign a goalscorer this summer
- by Neil Jones, Liverpool Echo
- Apr 27 2012
ONCE is unlucky, twice is unfortunate, three times is careless. But Liverpool FC's goalscoring problems have gone beyond that.
It's a real worry, and it needs to be addressed during the summer months. Kenny Dalglish will know that more than anybody.
It won't be cheap. Goalscorers tend to be expensive, and they are in short supply. But they are out there. Liverpool need one.
It is not the creating of chances that is the problem - although I am far from convinced that we are creating the kind of golden chances that other sides do – it is the taking of them.
And while you'd like midfield players to have contributed more in that respect, the truth is that Liverpool need a central striker who can convert chances at a good rate.
We've heard all the statistics. Liverpool have hit the woodwork more than any other team, they have all the possession, and all the shots on goal.
Yet they don't score enough. Forty goals in 34 games is a shockingly poor return, given the players available.
So who they can get? Well that is the key question.
Watching the Champions League semi-finals this week, it was striking to see Mario Gomez leading the line for Bayern Munich.
Liverpool were strongly linked with a move for him a couple of years ago, and look at where his goals have got Bayern. Not a phenomenal footballer, but a priceless goalscorer.
I've mentioned Radamel Falcao from Atletico Madrid before, and I think he definitely fits the bill. How much would he cost, though? And would he want to come to a club that isn't in the Champions League?
These are important questions, and shed some light on just how hard it is to get things right.
But that is the challenge facing Liverpool this summer. It is a big one, and a massively important one.
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