04 Sep 2015 06:10:13
Mng eds and Reds

Out from the usual controversies, banter please.

Best striker in the PL era.

1. My heart says fowler but Henry for me. He was the most complete striker I have seen in the league. Henry could dribble half of the opposition in their own half. He was unplayable.

2. Suarez comes second. He could do anything and he scores for fun.

{Ed001's Note - I can't look past Fowler, he was special, if he had only had a better team around him!}

1.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 08:17:47
Hard to argue with Henry, Hazza. Maybe through Shearer in there too, for mine. And while Robbie is one of my favours, i am not sure he was in that peak group for long enough.

2.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 08:41:27
Red tinted specs maybe ed? Henry was a monster you have to admit. Like you i have my red shades on too and go with fowler but i have to say i enjoyed watching berkamp immensely.

{Ed001's Note - I love Henry but I would have Bergkamp as my second. Wonderful player was Bergkamp.}

3.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 09:14:56
It has to be Fowler. Henry had the benefit of a class team around him. Imagine what a monster Fowler would have been with the Liverpool sides of the 70's or 80's around him, or Henry's Arsenal side, or Cantona's United?

Fowler was pure class who - when he was getting poor service, would just go and make his own goals.

4.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 09:30:53
Hey All,

I got in to football around 97/98 so never really saw Fowler in his peak years. Was it injuries that curtailed his career, Michael Owen blocking him or just the wrong team?

5.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 10:03:13
Fowler was definitely the best finisher

6.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 10:15:41
Alan Shearer for me, the epitome of a British centre forward. Added to the fact he rejected MUFC to join his hometown club when they were never really going to win anything and how he recovered from some fairly serious injuries and came back almost like new - awesome player

7.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 10:16:49
Muscatred - probably falling out with the management might have had an effect on his LFC career.

8.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 10:52:42
He never got on with Houllier, felt he had to leave.

9.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 10:53:13
Jozy altidore

10.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 11:25:02
Matt le tissier in terms of natural ability

11.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 11:54:55
Le Tiss was a great player. Not a great goal scorer but a scorer of great goals. Think one season in particular he had the top 4 goals of the season.

12.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 14:11:57
georgie kinkladze !!!! junhio !!!!

13.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 14:28:21
Best striker overall Alan Shearer
Best LFC striker in prem only one Fowler. It's good to see him ibavk involved with the club

14.) 04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015 17:58:21
Love this sort of thing - but as an avid Fowler fan, and also a massive Michael Owen fan - it is always good to remind the non Owen fans:-
Fowler - total LFC games 369 - goals 183 goals/games ratio 2.02
Owen - total LFC games 297 - golas 158 goals/games ratio 1.88

{Ed001's Note - Fowler played as part of a team, Owen had a team built around him, ridiculous to compare them. He was a poisonous little dwarf who caused hassle behind the scenes and wasn't half as good as those stats make him look. The only tactic of the Houllier team was to get the ball to Owen in the 6 yard box, even then he used to miss a lot of easy chances. Fowler was often having to do it all himself, and in the early part of his career he was alongside Rush, who was the go to man.}