Cruz won't star as top gun

Saturday, 20 June 09, 03:22 AM · Comments(0)

By Michael Sinnerton

£18million for Roque Santa Cruz? Are you having a laugh? I know prices are inflated but we're talking about a player who has played ten seasons in Europe and scored more than 5 goals in only one of them.

Maybe he's built to play in the Premiership. After all he did score 19 goals in 37 games for Blackburn in 2007/08. The price seems way too high though, it seems this summer is going to be filled with clubs paying over the odds from Cristiano Ronaldo to Glen Johnson, so perhaps it's a bit harsh to pick on Santa Cruz but despite his goals for Blackburn I'm not totally convinced about him as a goal scorer.

Given Manchester City's aim is to at least break into the top four, a strike force of Craig Bellamy and Roque Santa Cruz seems a little short in quality to me (I'd like to see at least one world class striker, all the other top 4 clubs have one). Albeit a midfield of Elano, Barry, De Jong and Robinho sounds fairly decent. I'll stick my neck out now and call Roque Santa Cruz's move a flop and a waste of money.

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What odds on a football version of 20/20? We already have the format, 5-a-side football and I imagine fans would absolutely love a weekend tournament but to be honest there's probably too much football in the calendar already. Valdes, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, and Messi against Cech, Terry, Essien, Lampard and Drogba sounds pretty good though, Barca wouldn't have a bad "B team" either.

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