4 goals in 20 games this season is frankly poor for a striker of his ability. I agree with comments elsewhere that he's not a poacher, even particularly a penalty box striker. It's worth reminding ourselves that, last season, we saw him net 10 goals in 11, so the argument that he's a good target man who creates chances for others if he doesn't score himself doesn't hold weight.

Is he worth the £15 million Everton allegedly offered back in the summer? It's a question worth asking.

Bogle and Ward have better scoring ratios than Zohore. Bogle, in particular, has looked like a handful.

While Zohore was injured, we won 7 league games out of 10. Since his return, we've won 4 points from 24. We've only lost 1 league game this season that Zohore hasn't featured in and that was because of a silly red card picked up by Bogle. We scored 16 goals in the 10 games he missed, with Bogle or Ward (Zohore's replacement) scoring 6 of those 16. Since Zohore's return to the team, we've scored 11 in all competitions with Zohore getting 1.

There was a recent question as to who City fans preferred - Zohore or Bothroyd. In his 3 seasons with us, Bothroyd scored 12, 13 and 20 goals respectively. At Zohore's current rate he's not likely to hit double figures this season.

I fully appreciate that this doesn't take into account Zohore's hold up play, his great assist for Ralls last week, but in terms of goals and stats, claims that Zohore deserves to be our number 1 striker are flaky at best.