Originally Posted by VoetbalWizard

"We always strengthen our squad, even more so when we win things"

The striker department is our weakest area, where competition for places is at its thinnest - lets not forget we went into this season with : Tevez, Rooney, Saha and Solkjaer.

We now have Tevez, Rooney... Manucho for a 4th choice and its almost a nailed on certainty we'll resolve the Saha issue this summer. We'll be signing someone who can push Rooney and Tevez to play at their best, like Saha would have done at his best. Dean Ashton wont be managing that, partly because of fitness issues.

One of Cockneyhammer and Hammermichael (I forget which one) wanted rid of Ashton earlier in the summer, such was his frustration at Ashon's fitness woes and performances just coming back from injury.