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Striker watch - 2022 Edition

goon

Cavani movement is probably among the top 3 I’ve seen in football ever. Used to laugh at him for the chances he missed but watching him closer really got me appreciating him. He’d make a bad ball into a great one. You wonder why most strikers don’t have this trait. If Nunes is anything like him we have to go all out to get him, bribes and all. The contrast to Laca in terms of movement and energy will be insane.

Klaus

goon wrote:
Cavani movement is probably among the top 3 I’ve seen in football ever. Used to laugh at him for the chances he missed but watching him closer really got me appreciating him. He’d make a bad ball into a great one. You wonder why most strikers don’t have this trait.

Was thinking of Cavani when I watched Nunez quickly get back onside so the ball could be played again for his second goal here, and I wasn't the only one apparently:

There's a lot of good decision-making going on in that clip. First touches can be improved, but work ethic, movement and the ability to take players on is a lot more difficult to teach. You either have the right instincts and inclinations or you don't.

goon

Yeah, there’s lots of little things you spot about him like that which make him stand out. There’s something very natural about him in the box that’s to teach, even the way he takes the ball for the first goal is class.

Anzac

However nothing in those clips suggests he is a fit for our current CF role in terms of back to goal play.

Coombs

Lacazette is crap at that too, though. It really shouldn't even be a consideration. We need a very good all around player with the right physical attributes who is also great at scoring goals. The rest will be done in training and on the tactics board.

lorddulaarsenal

Nunez is silly good. Recon he’ll go to United

Ray

Klaus wrote:
If he goes back to Serie A I think he has a decent chance. Dzeko is about half the player Cavani is and he's been toying with the Italian defenders for years. Giroud is doing well there now too. Cavani has the right physical profile and a lot more quality than they do.

That’s a good point, guys like Lukaku and Tammy Abrahams use their athleticism in Serie A to score shedloads, but look average elsewhere, it’s why I’m wary of looking at Osimhein videos and expecting him to replicate that in the PL.

jones

Yeah but Osimhen doesn't play anything like those two donkeys, if you wanted to compare him to someone it'd be Diego Costa and he didn't do too poorly in England.

QuincyAbeyie

Costa was an absolute beast, Conte's greatest fault at Chelsea was throwing him away.

Ray

jones wrote:
Yeah but Osimhen doesn't play anything like those two donkeys, if you wanted to compare him to someone it'd be Diego Costa and he didn't do too poorly in England.

Fair enough, but if your going off of what osimhen did in Serie A or Ligue 1 then expect a potential Pepe situation with Arteta in charge.

Big Willie

Could be said about anybstriker we sign under Arteta tbh. If that's the case then thats a management and stylistic problem, rather than a player problem.

jones

Ray wrote:
jones wrote:
Yeah but Osimhen doesn't play anything like those two donkeys, if you wanted to compare him to someone it'd be Diego Costa and he didn't do too poorly in England.

Fair enough, but if your going off of what osimhen did in Serie A or Ligue 1 then expect a potential Pepe situation with Arteta in charge.

Yeah definitely, my expectations are really low regardless of who comes in. Our attacking football bar the odd spurt has been non-existent for about three years now, any forward coming in would have to have some Ibrahimovic at Milan 2020 transformational type of aura to be a success here.

Imagine a player coming in taking the spotlight like that, Arteta would glass him on the pitch.

lorddulaarsenal

A front three of Martinelli, Osimhen and Saka would be the most physically impressive we’ve ever had

Anzac

Another ST who doesn't fit our current CF role profile

https://gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2022/04/15/in-depth-scouting-report-arsenals-reported-striker-target-victor-osimhen/

Anzac

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Nunez is silly good. Recon he’ll go to United

Have seen 'talk' Bayern are prepared to pay 80mE for him this summer.

EDIT - now talk PSG are interested.

Anzac

https://www.football365.com/news/lacazette-worst-premier-league-finishers-xg
Whilst it may seem odd for me to post this here, I did so as a word of warning/concern that the list not only includes Lacazette, but also Watkins and DCL along with the likes of Jesus and Kane.

Anzac

One thing shown by our struggles to find Nketiah v Saints is we need someone who looks to play the ball into space and with more urgency. Otherwise we'd have no more success with the likes of Nunez, Osimhen etc than we did with PEA (not that we have a snow ball's chance of signing either in our current state or position).

On that note I'd suggest we have little chance to sign any player who is currently at a UCL club or contending for domestic titles, unless that are already looking to leave to gain playing time.

GooneriC

Just dump the manager , and get someone in who can construct attacking play or at least be brave instead of subjecting us to this slow dull inflexible football.
All this nonsense about profile is a waste of time. Get a striker who scores goals and shape the team to get him the service he needs .

Qwiss

Anzac wrote:
One thing shown by our struggles to find Nketiah v Saints is we need someone who looks to play the ball into space and with more urgency.

I find it hard to believe we can't do that now with the players we have. Saka, ESR, Martinelli, Lokonga are all capable of this I have to believe if he was instructed to Odegaard would be one of the best in the league doing it.

flobaba

Of course we can.

But the football is bad, and doesn’t lend itself very often to those sort of clear cut opportunities to send a player free into space.

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