It’s a strange one - on one hand someone looking at our performance in the last 2 months will say Diaz is the last player that should be sold, he was an absolute warrior and stepped up where others failed. I also have a sense that perhaps next season (in his new team, probably) he might look even better for a while and even go on a scoring run - there are signs that his prolonged post-injury dip in form is close to ending and he increasingly looks sharper and faster.
But all that said, there is something about Diaz that makes it hard to see how he can fit into a conherent attack for a possession-based team. He just doesn’t develop relationships with other attackers, you get a sense he’s playing with the ball, not his teammates. His passing is atrocious and his crossing non-existent - for all of his hard work and trickery on the wing he barely creates any chances for his teammates. With him and Nunez in our starting front 3, we were never going to have a coherent attack that’s more than the sum of its parts. I think Slot will want more malleable and consistent attackers in his team and less chaos donkeys.
But all that said, there is something about Diaz that makes it hard to see how he can fit into a conherent attack for a possession-based team. He just doesn’t develop relationships with other attackers, you get a sense he’s playing with the ball, not his teammates. His passing is atrocious and his crossing non-existent - for all of his hard work and trickery on the wing he barely creates any chances for his teammates. With him and Nunez in our starting front 3, we were never going to have a coherent attack that’s more than the sum of its parts. I think Slot will want more malleable and consistent attackers in his team and less chaos donkeys.
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