I mean, I don’t think Tadic would have played regularly as a false 9 if Ajax had Ronaldo either. And it is reported that we want a ‘forward’, with reports specifically stating ‘not necessarily a central striker’.
I’m nit against Bruno being an option as a central player, I’d prefer him out of the midfield 3 than in it, but he won’t be the first choice there. 60 games or not, Ronaldo will start most games if he is fit, so if Bruno is happy to start the games in Hungary in the Europa League, then fine, but if not - he’d need a primary position in the team in which he would expect to start the same games that Ronaldo would expect to start. And that position would likely be in the middle 3, at the expense of either Nunes, Fred or Vitinha - which would immediately weaken any possession game we are trying to play as our default approach.
In summary, I can’t see us buying two starting midfielders of the profile of Vitinha, Nunes or De Jong in order to pursue a possession based approach, as any pairing from the two would require a third midfielder with a different profile to Bruno both with and without the ball. And given that I don’t expect such a point to be made redundant due to the fact that Bruno will instead play most of his games at centre forward - I think we will/should only buy one of these types of players rather than two. I am not in disagreement with your vision, I just don’t see it as very likely. And even if it were, I’d like to see us start to integrate Hannibal rather than buy two of these kind.
