The new number 9…

[Judge Jules]

I don't reckon there's a simple answer to that (entirely reasonable) question. As long as we have wide forwards who come in off the wing and go for goal, it may well be that another Bobby-type player would be favourite. Interestingly though, Slot arrived with a rep as someone who likes his wingers to get chalk on their boots, so I can't help wondering whether he might want to transition in that direction and, if he does, signing someone like Sesko predominantly for the future might make sense.

 

[StevieM]

I don't reckon there's a simple answer to that (entirely reasonable) question. As long as we have wide forwards who come in off the wing and go for goal, it may well be that another Bobby-type player would be favourite. Interestingly though, Slot arrived with a rep as someone who likes his wingers to get chalk on their boots, so I can't help wondering whether he might want to transition in that direction and, if he does, signing someone like Sesko predominantly for the future might make sense.

I ask that because there’s a lot of stuff going round at the minute about “where have all the strikers gone?” - like there aren’t (m)any great CfF’s about at this moment in time - if you compare to yesteryear’s.

When you think of some of the forwards we’ve seen over the last 30 years and you look around now… it’s sparse - loads of great attacking wide forwards (not wingers) - but even deep lying strikers appear to be in short supply.

Theory is, I suppose, modern tactics have coached the “strikerness” out of them by focusing on coming deep to bulk up midfield and link play against just hanging them in.

Haaland is the best example of the modern striker malaise - all about scoring… but when that’s not working you’d be better playing with a traffic cone up front, it’d offer more.

 

[KopRed]

Except that Isak is of the same age, signed in the same season, cheaper, playing in a weaker team, would have easily signed for us, and is tearing it up in the league.

We bought the wrong striker. We could have won the league with Isak last season.

Hindsight.