Sanchez stunned Healy not bought
Lawrie Sanchez is stunned that no Premiership clubs have come in for Northern Ireland striker David Healy during the January transfer window.
Healy, 27, has scored 24 goals for his country and is set to see out the season at struggling Leeds.
Northern Ireland boss Sanchez told BBC Sport: "If you want goals he'll get you goals - David is the finished product.
"If I was a Premiership boss he would certainly be a player I would look at if goalscoring was a problem."
A number of clubs in the lower reaches of the top flight fit that billing but they have looked elsewhere to find the all-important goals that could stave off relegation.
Healy has scored seven league goals in 20 starts this season for a Leeds side that is struggling one place off the bottom of the Championship.
While in international colours he has scored four times this term, including a hat-trick against Spain, to take his tally to 24 goals in 54 games.
"I've no doubt if he got the chance to play at the top level he would score goals at the top level," added Sanchez.
"His strike rate for Northern Ireland is ridiculous - it's not far off one in two and he doesn't just score against the Latvias of this world.
"He has scored against England, Germany and then there was the hat-trick against Spain.
"I could pick out a weakness in every player from Andriy Shevchenko on - but you don't look at weaknesses when strengths far outnumber them as they do with David.
"And his main strength is simple - he scores goals."
Everton's initial concern over Andrew Johnson's ankle injury led to suggestions that a £500,000 move to Goodison Park was in the pipeline for Healy.
But nothing concrete has developed and now a reunion with Everton boss David Moyes, who was Healy's manager at Preston, looks increasingly unlikely.
Another Premiership manager who has seen Healy at close quarters is Watford's Aidy Boothroyd, who was on the staff at Leeds when the striker moved to Elland Road from Deepdale.
But, despite seeing his side hit the back of the net only 14 times in the league this season, having leading marksman Marlon King sidelined for the season because of a knee injury and selling winger Ashley Young to Aston Villa, Boothroyd opted for Steve Kabba.
The £500,000 signing last started a game for Sheffield United in the League Cup defeat by Birmingham in October and has not been given the nod to begin a match in the Premiership for the Blades all season.
And he last scored a goal more than a year ago in United's FA Cup victory over Colchester.
Above the Hornets, West Ham and Charlton have been actively seeking a striker and both spent much of January chasing Sevilla reserve Kepo Blanco, a race the Hammers eventually won.
While just outside the drop zone, Wigan have moved for Caleb Folan from League One outfit Chesterfield and Sheffield United have invested £2m in Jamaican international Luton Shelton.
** STRIKER SIGNINGS FOR PREMIERSHIP STRUGGLERS **
Sheff Utd: Luton Shelton (£2m) & Jon Stead (£750,000)
Wigan: Caleb Folan (£500,000)
W Ham: Kepa Blanco (Loan)
Charlton: Nobody... yet
Watford: Steve Kabba (£500,000), Will Hoskins (£1m combined with Lee Williamson) & Moses Ashikodi (Nominal)
