Klaus wrote:
Have you watched him play, Anzac? Bloke's bang average. The market for strikers is at an all-time low and yet Lacazette is as unwanted by European clubs as he is by his own national team. He'll move to Tottenham in a year or two and flop miserably.
Was more thinking primarily in terms of pricing & AW's principles, let alone any actual assessment of the player's quality or ability.
IMO the idea that the ST market is poor is primarily an impact of more managers wanting a player who can do everything as CF, as a result of the impacts / demands of possession football & the advances in tactics re counter-pressing and positional play, along with the trend of over emphasising numbers to dominate in midfield.Â
It's not just the lack of complete forwards but also the failure of the team collective & Total Football approach to step up and provide the balance where needed.
I suspect that more teams will revert to 2-3 man attacks so as to compensate for the lack of these compete forwards who have always been a rarity, and that we'll see greater emphasis returning to players who can deliver in key roles regardless of any supposed deficiencies in the game elsewhere.
