Forward thinking by Megson

17 September 2009 14:17
Gary Megson insists he is happy with his attacking options as his Bolton side prepare to host Stoke having kick-started their season with five goals in their last two games.[LNB]Wanderers made a poor start to their league campaign with 1-0 defeats against Sunderland and Hull, but have since been unlucky to go down 3-2 to Liverpool at the Reebok Stadium, before triumphing by the same scoreline at Portsmouth last week.[LNB]That victory and the sudden burst of goals will have come as a relief to Megson, who added Croatia striker Ivan Klasnic to his forward line before the end of the transfer window but still has limited firepower up front.[LNB]Stoke, in contrast, now have a competitive quartet of strikers in James Beattie, Dave Kitson, Ricardo Fuller and new arrival Tuncay, with Mamady Sidibe waiting in the wings, but Megson says he feels no envy towards Pulis and the options at his disposal.[LNB]"He can't play them all at the same time!" Megson said. "We've got Kevin Davies, Johan Elmander and Ivan Klasnic and if they are all playing well, working hard and doing what we know they can do then there won't be any envy from myself about any of the centre forwards, not just at Stoke, but throughout the league.[LNB]"We are pleased with the three that we`ve got - if we were a little bit of a bigger football club with a bigger wage bill, we would probably take another one but it takes time to get to that. We are apparently a football club that doesn't score goals and we struggled in a couple of games, but we've now got five and we're not the lowest scorers in the Premier League so other people must have problems as well."

Source: Eurosport