Pardew needs a Strikeforce

Alan Pardew has always been a worthwhile success with any club he touches. He transformed Reading into the team they are today, he took a depleted West Ham United side from the gutter and managed to get them into Europe and was on the brink of a famous FA Cup victory with only Steven Gerrard preventing a deserved win. So what is happening at Charlton Athletic?
Fans are calling the board to sack Pardew whose team lies scarily in the relegation zone.
No one can condemn a 3-1 lose to Barnsley at home as Charlton do have some quality players to rely on and should be able to achieve results.
Matt Holland is a fine midfielder with the ability to carry a team, unfortunately for the Addicts he is the very wrong side of 30. His impact is obviously missing.
Svetoslav Todorov looks a shadow of the player that sparked Portsmouth into the Premiership circus. He is a fluent goal scorer but lacks confidence, when he suffered that bad ligament break he has failed to be the player that he once was.
He compliments other strikers at the club including Andy Gray, Luke Varney, and Izale Mcleod and they certainly have goals in them it is just a matter of time.
Goals have been the solidarity problem this term as they have suffered from the lost of last season’s top scorer Chris Iwelumo and had little money to replace him.
Having been relegated in 2007, the club and chairman Richard Murray had to readjust and cut costs to live with life in the Championship. Darren Bent proved heroics in that relegation season and was swiftly sold to Tottenham Hotspur for a massive profit but only a small percentage of that money was available.
With the parachute payments, Charlton were able to make a half-hearted attempt to push for promotion last term but finished a disappointing eleventh, still only a mere 3 points of the playoffs. .
Pardew, who took over from Les Reed on Christmas Eve 2006, must be concerned with his current position now as the distraction of the proposed Dubai-based diversified investment company takeover has deteriorated.
Iain Dowie can be arguably blamed for the start of the rot as long term manager Alan Curbishley did a great running of a football club beforehand.
Pardew needs new idea and tactics to get these players firing on all cylinders. The strikers need to take an important role in this. it is a poor cliché to say that goals win games but unfortunately for Pardew and Charlton this has came too apparent.
Focus is now solely back on the football and it is time to produce results.