The Trio...

[Shepherds Mush]

I've given examples of successful sides without midfielders scoring near double figures... but lets just ignore the facts...

You gave an example of 1 team who won the league without a midfielder scoring close to 10 goals.

[Alanwycombe]

If you have wingers and strikers scoring, midfield goalscorers become less and less necessary. Man Utd last won the league with their best scoring midfielder being Shinji Kagawa with 6 goals, nothing.

Season before that, they had a total of 11 goals from positions that weren't striker or winger (that includes CB's too). Scholes was their top scoring non striker/winger in the league with only 4 goals.

Yes, there are teams who have goals from midfield, frank lampard and gerrard obviously spring to mind, but every single year since we've lost Charlie, we've had the same things brought up that "oh we need goalscoring midfielders". No, we don't, we need goalscoring strikers. We'd like goalscoring midfielders, but we NEED goalscoring strikers.

We NEED the team to set up some chances for the strikers to convert.