It has been widely reported today that Manchester City boss Sven Goran Eriksson has a problem on his mind. A problem of what to spend his money on. Either he buys former Manchester City striker Nicolas Anelka off Bolton for £12 million or Peter Crouch from Liverpool for £8 million.Now whilst Anelka was at City he was arguably one of their best ever strikers until he (or should I say his brothers) got greedy. They wanted to move for money and in Anelka's words "a bigger team".
Now that Man City are proving themselves to be a big club, I feel the time is right for Anelka to rejoin the team. Except for a terrible second half of the season, City are likely to be in the UEFA Cup and I'm sure that will interest Anelka.
The rumoured valuation of £12 million I feel is about right although I do see Bolton sticking out for more. Now with Peter Crouch, you have a player that always scores for England but rarely does for Liverpool.
He began to get some game time in recent weeks but up until that even Darren Fletcher was being played more. So far this season he has made five league appearances but has yet to score but yet in Europe he has scored four times in only six games.
I feel Eriksson would be better off forking out four million pounds more on a proven goal scorer in the Premier League in Anelka rather than spending the money on Crouch. What do you think?
