Pellestri, Amad, Hannibal, Sancho.....we are over loaded with players can play there even if several are on loan.
Name a striker from your descriptions that is a stop gap and helps us get in the top four against the current competition? Sure there may be some, I cant think of any though
I think we have to agree to disagree here.
From a striker, ETH — besides all ‘spectacular things’, presence in the air space, dribbling/shooting, counter attack ability — wants:
(a) the ability to press, to have the defender just clear the ball so that we can regain possession instantly, and
(b) the ability to take a pass high up the field, shield of pressuring defenders, to keep possession of the ball.
Right? When Ronaldo have played we didn’t get the press and when Rashford played we didn’t get the hold up ability — and it has shown a lot. With Martial we get both, and it helped us a lot.
Without adding a striker we will with Rashford, Elanga, Diallo, Antony, Eriksen, Bruno and co not get the hold up ability. PL defenders are merciless when pressing an attacker in those situation. If you aren’t good in those situations, you will sit there with 4-5 bags of ice and a ton of lost balls after 90 minutes. You don’t have to be John Hartson 2.0 to get it done, Jesus handles it perfectly, but it’s not easy.
From my POV, having a player at a position that doesn’t meet the minimum requirements in essential areas, is very costly for a system oriented team like ours. I for example think it’s more important for ETH to have a striker that can hold up the play and press really well — but that has zero flash and dash — as opposed to having someone there who can dribble really well but will go into hiding the very second a PL CB pressures him from behind, or a great finisher that can’t press and so forth.
And I mean, this is surely the reason for why a team like Bayern carry a striker that was a failure at Stoke, and PSG carried the same striker before them, in
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, right?
Martial and Rashford starts a game. We are up 1-0 with 20 minutes to go away against a mid tier PL team and both are really tired. Who do you sub on, tell me that? Elanga at striker and Sancho at LW? Garnacho? You can’t play up the ball on any one of the available striker options, to get some rest and get up field. The striker is the most subbed position. With the schedule we have, should Martial play the full 95 minutes no matter the score? He should come of when he can. We don’t have anyone who is a good fit if he comes off. And imagine if Martial keeps getting hurt, like he constantly have. Then you have a miss-fit there, and no sub for the misfit.
So I believe that someone like Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting could help ETH. Could come in as a sub on occasion. Could start when Martial and or Rashford can’t. And so forth. Definitely think he can help us to get pts.
I don’t pretend to have up to date correct views of the Choupo-Motings of the football world, that might be available on loan or cheap. Per definition, it’s hard to have great track of these guys since they aren’t playing a ton presumably. I can only mention some names on which I don’t have updated info on, haven’t seen in a year or two, or whatever.
How about a
Yussef Poulsen? Don’t know his current status, but he isn’t playing much. Like 120 minutes in the Bundesliga and I think I saw him on the bench for Denmark meaning that he is healthy. Would Milan loan us
Divick Origi? I would bet that Zlatan is done, but he is rumored to be back for Milan and they already have Giroux. What is Origi’s status?Former Bournmouth striker
Jousha King was always a bit of a coach’s dream. Someone said he is done, I don’t even remember the last time I saw him. He was really could for Norway in a game I saw, but don’t remember if that was 1 or 2 or even 3 years ago. They upset a bigger nation IIRC. He could be in worse state than Suarez was for Uruguay for all I know, who obviously don’t even remotely got it anymore. But he is only 30, if he is not done he would help. There are many guys like that out there.
