Crouch or Santa Cruz? You decide.

I think most City fans would agree that we have been in dire need of a decent, big, goalscoring target man for a long time. We have probably not had such a player since Niall Quinn.

Two players we have been linked with for some time now are Roque Santa Cruz and Peter Crouch.

mancityblues is currently conducting a poll on the forum asking which player the fans would prefer if they had a choice.

Join in now and have your say. Just click on the link above.

Interestingly, both strikers have a very similar scoring record:

Eleven years in senior football for RSC, 234 league appearances, 67 goals. Strike rate: 1 in 3.49

Eight years for Crouch, 191 apps, 55 goals. Strike rate: 1 in 3.47

Not much difference!

This entry was posted on June 17th, 2009 at 09:31:14 pm and is filed under Welcome.

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12 comments

Comment from: DAVE [Visitor]

Do we have to pick?

06/17/09 @ 21:48

Comment from: Ant [Visitor]

neither!
rsc is a crock. off abovee stats e only plays 21 games a year on average so not worth 15m for 8 goals!
crouch is just plain crap. every team e played in as first choice striker has finished in bottom half of table and e only scores goals whilst e the only one in the team scoring. one season in top alf with liverpool where he was never good enough to get a run in first team. we need to be better than that liverpool team to break top 4 so surely e not wot we looking for.
as 3rd or 4th choice to give us option off bench, wud take either as as you say, not much between em!

06/17/09 @ 21:52

Comment from: david [Visitor]

Neither! Take someone else, Oscar Cardozo, Nicola Zigic, Huntelaar. zigic and cardozo are huge guys with an eye for goal. The will dominate the aerial balls. then robinho/tevez/phillips/weiss/petrov on the sides of him

06/17/09 @ 21:53

Comment from: CityBlue75 [Visitor] · http://bleacherreport.com/users/72693-Jason-Halfpenny

Others than their stats there is muc more difference between the two, i believe RSC is a much better player than Crouch and i cannot say i rate Crouch much.

RSC can beat an offside trap where as Crouch is useless, hes a tall Robbie Fowler where as RSC is a tall Robinho

06/17/09 @ 21:53

Comment from: Andy [Visitor]

Are you kidding?? Why is it one or the other, i don't want either of em, and i damn well know a lot of other blues feel exactly the same.....

how about option 3....NEITHER

06/17/09 @ 21:54

Comment from: Steve Heywood [Visitor]

Crouch for me all day

06/17/09 @ 21:57

Comment from: harry clarke [Visitor]

i want cruz he is awsome he did brilliant wid hughes also him and tevez up front will be unstoppable cruz is a target man and wen hughes left he was not played as a target man also crouch is shit

06/17/09 @ 22:03

Comment from: dean jones [Visitor]

santa cruz is a traitor but him all day

06/17/09 @ 22:04

Comment from: DAVE [Visitor]

NONE!

06/17/09 @ 22:12

Comment from: wythenshawe blues [Visitor]

Out of the two, Roque Santa Cruz, but im sure we could get a better player, We may as well use Jo instead of buying crouch, if he played as a target man with another striker, I.e Tevez aswell as robinho & Ireland Playing, that would be good enough... But DO NOT BUY CROUCH, My mate is 6ft5 he better, and he'll play for aabout £60.000 a week less.

06/17/09 @ 22:21

Comment from: Gusy [Visitor]

i think crouch wld be best however i believe Nicola Zigic wld be the best choice for his incredible height and strength.

p.s it will be gr8 to see phillips bk at the stadium of light this year.

06/17/09 @ 22:35

Comment from: aussie city bloke [Visitor]

crouch is garbage but santa is a tampon in for 1 week out for the rest of the month... cough up with some of the billions and get eto and tevez my sand surfing friends.

06/18/09 @ 09:51

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