This is it. I think we've been spoiled by havng both Suarez and Sturridge, two quick, incisive forwards who provided a blueprint for how we want to play, with a three pronged attack that interchanges and is fluid, tenacious and versatile. Benteke is just a victim of style and circumstance. We don't create enough, we don't have a full, first choice attack to choose from and we've made some dreadful buys, at least in the short-term. As said, he's still our top scorer, despite struggling to adapt, and us (unfairly) trying to force him to be something he isn't.
If you have an approach that's a bit more direct, as opposed to a patient spell of possession waiting for that killer pass, then he can thrive. Get into the box, create openings, work defenders and move them out of position, and he'll pounce on any loose ball and find the net. Work to his strengths, which isn't just the lazy stereotypical "pump it long" or get wide to cross and pick him out, it's not what his game consists of, if it's a measured, slow approach that requires him to think, it doesn't work, he's not that intelligent a player, but get the ball in early or cause disruption in an opponents box and he's an opportunist, he's as instinctive a finsher as there is in this league.
I'm far from convinced he's our longterm answer, it's fairly evident that he isn't, but while he's the only fit option available, at least play to his strengths and adapt the approach. I thought that was what good managers did? Or if Klopp doesn't see a future for him and wants to impliment a style of play as early as possible, don't play him and waste any more of his and our time.
