Klaus wrote:
He's a flaky 21 year old player, nothing more to it than that. He's always been like this. It's something he'll have to improve at if he has any designs of playing for a top club, I've said this all along.
Usually strikers start to increase their goal production between 22-25 so there's plenty of time for him. I think physically he hasn't quite filled out yet and it hampers him. With that frame of his he could end up being another Ibrahimovic, poor and tired as that comparison is. Instead he gets pushed off the ball too easily because he's too lanky and not quick enough to put his boot through the ball. Zlatan was exactly the same before he went to Juventus though.
I do wonder just what a leap we'll see in his game when he gets that extra power from adding some muscle to the frame he has.
I don't think he'll be half as strong as Ibrahimovic, but when he can hold his own, that speed should really become a huge weapon and he'll be very hard to stop.
How do you rate the things in his game that are hard to see at a glance - his nose and then first touch for getting a yard in the box? His work rate and aggression? Do you think he'll have the touch and awareness once he's developed physically to handle aggressive Premier League centrebacks kicking lumps out of him as the focal point of a team?
