Jarvo - an Andy Carroll/ Carlton Cole figure up-front is central to the whole Allardyce ethos.

We're not just talking about Nolan and knockdowns here, but the type of crosses and diagonals that players like Downing and O'Brian deliver.

Leave out Carlton and you have to change the whole way the team is set-up, and that negates all the training and drills that they've been working throughout the whole time Allarduce has been at West Ham.

Valencia and Zarate are used to a slower build up, and being played through balls down the centre, to run onto.

Something has to give - either the new players have to adapt to Allardyce's style, and that will take time, or Allardyce has to change, and that's probably unlikely? And it would take a lot more than just bringing in a couple of South America strikers - you're going to need better passers of through balls than Downing, O'Brian, Collins, Reid can deliver.

That's why Carlton plays.