Dickov is our manager, he won't play first choice striker. It's as simple as that, he'll play if we have injuries and suspensions, he may even chuck himself on as a sub to try and pinch an equaliser or winner, but he's not going to play 40 games alongside Feeney and bag 20 goals.
And frankly, if he wasn't manager I wouldn't want him here as a striker as I think there are better out there, no disrespect to Dickov, he's 37 and has become a journeyman since leaving Blackburn, we'll be his 7th club in 4 years, in those 4 years he's scored 10 times. In otherwords, he's over the hill, and that's why he's turning the management. I still think he might have a little bit left in the tank, but he will rightly use what is ever left for when we're struggling to field a team. He's our manager and reserve striker.
Pav on the otherhand is our best striker, 13 goals last season in a crap team with barely any service, now think how many more he could score with a consistent striker partner and midfield service. A technically gifted target man with a less than 1 in 3 goal scoring record (90 goals in 251 games). So we get rid of Pav? And rely on our unproven kids? No thanks. Pav's the best we've got and I disagree with claims that he's lazy, last season in a fair few games he dropped deeper than I would have liked.