£15m Spent on strikers and the goals come from city's old pairing (Mercury!)

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Does he bring more? Depends on a lot of factors.

[biggs]

I'd start Kramaric over Ulloa as I see little risk and think we'd be a stronger team for doing so. Vardy, Nugent and adding Kramaric's work ethic and skills to the mix would be my choice over what I see as a slightly out of form Ulloa.

 

Whatever risk people may see is little compared to the possible rewards. Risk/reward situation which I believe sides with Kramaric

[Strokes]

This is the whole delusions of grandeur all over again.

 

Look at teams placed 17th over the last few years in the Prem. Ulloa has 7 goals in the league and there's still 1/5 of the season remaining. How many of these 17th placed teams do you think have a goalscorer near the top of the leaderboard? It's not many. He's not been great recently but you have a very short memory. I bet you weren't saying how poor he was after the first 10 games.

If people can't see that the opposition double up on him leaving space for nugent or vardy, then I wouldn't bother getting them to think back that far.

[Gerard]

If people can't see that the opposition double up on him leaving space for nugent or vardy, then I wouldn't bother getting them to think back that far.

 

Double up on Ulloa. 

 

Why Argentina stick with that Lionel Whatisname when they could pick Leonardo, God only knows?

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Why you so intent on insulting our top scorer? He's playing, we're winning, get behind him.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

People still bringing up Lloyd Dyer in this thread. Was offered a year, didn't fancy it, done bugger all in the Championship this year, we've moved on from him...

[indierich06]

Double up on Ulloa.

Why Argentina stick with that Lionel Whatisname when they could pick Leonardo, God only knows?

What's that got to do with anything?

Opposition sides see Ulloa as more of a threat than Nugent or Vardy - and bar the last couple of games, they'd be right to think so. He's not going to get doubled up on every single game, but he's a big lad and he's a handful - if you cant see the benefit in him pulling defenders out of position, taking markers away from other strikers and generally creating more space for the rest of our side, then you really need to open your eyes.

[SecretPro]

What's that got to do with anything?

Opposition sides see Ulloa as more of a threat than Nugent or Vardy - and bar the last couple of games, they'd be right to think so. He's not going to get doubled up on every single game, but he's a big lad and he's a handful - if you cant see the benefit in him pulling defenders out of position, taking markers away from other strikers and generally creating more space for the rest of our side, then you really need to open your eyes.

 

Pretty sure all of those things are what Kramaric is best at. He's supposedly our star £9m striker who scored 28 goals for his other club this season...if he was on the pitch more often opposition defenders would be going all out to stop him moving with the ball based on the hype and that track record - Kramaric is actually pretty good dealing with this too, his hold up play has been excellent and he's turned defenders inside out on numerous occasions. He creates more intelligent space and more importantly finds the intelligent spaces where players with nous like Cambiasso can thread balls through to him and actively goes looking for the space more than any other striker we have utilised this season which says something. He is, as it stands, a far better choice than Ulloa - yeah he's our top goal scorer but he hasn't been banging them in for a long time, he does cause some problems with defenders and create a bit of space (which up until recent weeks wasn't utilised either because we were playing with less strikers or because Vardy/Nugent were just playing like shit) but he also spends so so much time getting penalised and ultimately giving the ball away in the final third that I think it's probably now a little counter-productive. Get Kram in for a proper go at 90 minutes with Vardy/Nuge alongside - if that had been the case at West Brom there would have been more goals, I'm convinced of that because the box was crowded and we spent quite a bit of time getting the ball into the 18/6 yard box but there just wasn;t the right man there to finish them off.

[Benguin]

I know 15 million on stwikers who haven't weally found the target too fwequently either, I think nugent and Vardy will be a handful on Saturday again, can see kwamaric being left of the picture again

Wow

[Guest Col city fan]

I'm still of the opinion that it's bizarre we go out and break our transfer record on a striker, who we then don't play.

9 million quid really should buy you someone clearly better than the existing lot, yet it must be the case that Pearson feels Nugent and Vardy are possibly his best option currently.

I also don't get this 'certain players for certain games and certain formations' mentality. You break the bank to get your top striker, you fit him in. If he's that good, you build your formation around him.

This isn't knocking Nugent and Vardy. They have that partnership mentality going on..they instinctively know where each other is on the pitch. But personally I'd try to find a way of playing Kramaric. If not, why pay so much money for him? And don't forget, when we signed him, we needed him NOW (not next season).

If we now do get relegated, both the acquisition of and the not playing of our record striker should be questioned.

I hope to see him tomorrow and playing with both Nugent and Vardy. That strike force would offer pace, guile and finishing.

Fingers crossed.

[Babylon]

Ulloa is also in the team because of his heading ability when defending set pieces. When Pearson was talking about the size of our team last week he was pretty up front about only the two centre backs, Ulloa and King (if he's on the field) being able to offer height in the box when defending a cross. Whilst clearly as a striker it's not his first job, it's something they will take into consideration.

 

I'd like Kramaric to get more of a chance, but clearly Ulloa offers something very different. It's unlikely the first goal last week would have happened had Kramaric been on the end of the long ball instead of him. Of course, you don't know how it would have turned out with him there... perhaps we'd have been three up already!

[RedSoxUK]

Ulloa is also in the team because of his heading ability when defending set pieces. When Pearson was talking about the size of our team last week he was pretty up front about only the two centre backs, Ulloa and King (if he's on the field) being able to offer height in the box when defending a cross. Whilst clearly as a striker it's not his first job, it's something they will take into consideration.

 

I'd like Kramaric to get more of a chance, but clearly Ulloa offers something very different. It's unlikely the first goal last week would have happened had Kramaric been on the end of the long ball instead of him. Of course, you don't know how it would have turned out with him there... perhaps we'd have been three up already!

 

Both West Brom goals came from sloppy defending and clearances in the box, with or without Ulloa - they would have been scored, again we looked shocking defending from set pieces and we constantly fouled outside the area unnecessarily, again.

I don't believe Ulloa is there because he's tall and can win headers, he's there as a target man as that's how Pearson wants him to play - to get under the ball when we hoof it up the field to see where it lands, and to attack headers at goal, not just away from goal. Over the course of the season I don't think Ulloa deserves a start, and I don't think we need to utilise a target man when Nugent / Vardy have shown just how suitable they are at getting under our hoofs and winning flick ons in the past, my favourite i've seen of them working together like this was Vardy's goal last season vs QPR -- Just shows you don't have to be 6ft 3 target man to win headers and attack / score and defend vs headers.

 

Kramaric's header vs Aston Villa was one of the best i've seen from a Leicester player in years.

100% start Kramaric and get him on the ball, playing behind Nugent & Vardy where he's so often found himself this season playing on his own upfront anyway.

[Babylon]

Both West Brom goals came from sloppy defending and clearances in the box, with or without Ulloa - they would have been scored, again we looked shocking defending from set pieces and we constantly fouled outside the area unnecessarily, again.

I don't believe Ulloa is there because he's tall and can win headers, he's there as a target man as that's how Pearson wants him to play - to get under the ball when we hoof it up the field to see where it lands, and to attack headers at goal, not just away from goal. Over the course of the season I don't think Ulloa deserves a start, and I don't think we need to utilise a target man when Nugent / Vardy have shown just how suitable they are at getting under our hoofs and winning flick ons in the past, my favourite i've seen of them working together like this was Vardy's goal last season vs QPR -- Just shows you don't have to be 6ft 3 target man to win headers and attack / score and defend vs headers.

 

Kramaric's header vs Aston Villa was one of the best i've seen from a Leicester player in years.

100% start Kramaric and get him on the ball, playing behind Nugent & Vardy where he's so often found himself this season playing on his own upfront anyway.

"also" being the very key part of what I said.

[RedSoxUK]

"also" being the very key part of what I said.

 

We should make a pros and cons list for both players and send our findings to Nigel before 3pm tomorrow.

[Babylon]

We should make a pros and cons list for both players and send our findings to Nigel before 3pm tomorrow.

I'd like to see Kramaric, I think a more mobile player along with Vardy and Nuge will cause all sorts of problems. But I do understand the plus points Ulloa brings as well.

[yorkie1999]

Ulloa is also in the team because of his heading ability when defending set pieces. When Pearson was talking about the size of our team last week he was pretty up front about only the two centre backs, Ulloa and King (if he's on the field) being able to offer height in the box when defending a cross. Whilst clearly as a striker it's not his first job, it's something they will take into consideration.

 

I'd like Kramaric to get more of a chance, but clearly Ulloa offers something very different. It's unlikely the first goal last week would have happened had Kramaric been on the end of the long ball instead of him. Of course, you don't know how it would have turned out with him there... perhaps we'd have been three up already!

Ulloa's in the team so Cambiasso has someone who can understand what he's talking about.

[shailen]

I do not understand why everyone is going on about this. At the moment, Nugent and Vardy are hot. There was a period in the season where they were not. Similarly Kramaric and Ulloa had their moments in the spotlight. They have shown they are capable. Players come in and out of form anyway, and particularly strikers score goals in bundles. When their confidence is up they can't stop scoring. See Ulloa at the start of the season. All I need to know is that all four strikers are decent at this level. And what's better is that they are all different types of players, which gives us another option if things are not going well.