I don't know why we wouldn't be interested in Rooney, in all honesty. I imagine every club in the league would be outside of the top five/six.
The Old Man of Storr wrote:I think we will need to buy two strikers , Yorks
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't disagreeing that we need two - simply that the likelihood of us signing two £20m+ strikers on top of Carroll and our youth coming through seems unlikely, not least because I don't think they'd come here if they weren't guaranteed a starting role. It would be very different if we started two up top, but if we only start with one I can't see us attracting two players of that calibre.
It would be silly, in my opinion, to loan Batshuayi and then buy Modeste - one of them is plenty to have. You then have Carroll who's already here and a clutch of promising younger talents (I would add a young player from abroad with a proven record this season, so mentioned Diamata) who should be able to round out the options.
Then you'll have the new starter, Carroll, new youngster, Fletcher and Martinez as out and out striker options, with players like Ayew and Antonio capable of playing there too (probably fitting in between the new youngster and Fletcher in terms of pecking order).
Just for reference, look at the appearances for Palace's strikers this season - Benteke's on 30, Remy's on 7, Wickham's on 10, Campbell's on 9. Would someone like a Modeste be happy with 9 games a season if it was determined that someone else was ahead of him in the pecking order? Would we be happy if we spent £25m on him and only played him that much?