We have two strikers. The problem is we have a system with which you cannot play a striker.
We need a striker.
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No sense in buying another striker if Ten Hag refuses to play with one.
We are strengthening the midfield. Ugarte should be coming soon. We've signed a young 17 year old DM in Kone. If we werent so steadfast in our valuation of McT, we could have sold him and brought someone else in as well.
More of a case we have a system that doesn't supply a striker any service. We'd need peak Henry or peak Brazilian Ronaldo to go make their own chances themselves.
We have two strikers, yes. But we don't have a striker who is ready to lead the line week in week out. Why we signed another young practically unproven striker for this year is beyond me.
Where would Hojlund play in this system? He clearly has set us up to have Bruno and Mount be the main pressing triggers for the centre backs. You can't supply a striker if you don't set up to play one.
Signing a new player isn’t the answer to all our problems. The manager hasn’t been able to setup the team to control games to be able to bring strikers into play more. As it stands, it doesn’t matter the striker we sign, they won’t have any joy given the way we set up and play.
He's only playing like that because hojlund is injured. Also once Ugarte arrives it will change.
I have been saying for weeks that we need three players. Ugarte, Rabiot and Tony. I don't care how many underpeformers we have to sell to get them in. Eriksen, Lindelof, McT, and Sancho can all leave and won't need replacing. That is atleast 400-500k in wages that woud be freed up.
That's not true. This is his system and has been since the end of last season and pre season.
In fact when Hojlund was fit at the end of the last season he was dropped so we could have two midfielders press the centrebacks. We're going hard on the 4-2-4 system and I hate it.
Ugarte will help if we can drop Bruno and play one of Zirkzee or Hojlund. But I suspect he'll take Mainoo or/and Casemiros minutes.
Again, it doesn't solve the problem which is the system, it doesn't allow us to play a striker. We're playing Bruno and Mount up front because our whole defensive structure starts with them pressing the centre backs.
I wouldn't be surprised if this manager is out of a job by December.
I think ETH has all his eggs in the Rashford is going to score 30 goals from wide again basket.
Having a prolific goal scoring wide forward is the only way this strikerless system works.
Unfortunately for us Rashford doesn’t look anywhere close to fulfilling the goal scoring requirement for this system.
Looking at the kind of profile Zirkzee is, and the way ETH seems to be deploying him, it's even more baffling that we didn't go after a genuine striker.
I wonder how much Brentford will drop the Toney price as the week goes on.
No we need a winger, in the mould of Nico Williams (or just him in general). None of ours can beat a man
A striker won't solve our problems as we don't create enough chances as a team. Even the best of strikers miss chances, and scoring goals will always be a problem if you only create one or two good chances the whole game.
I don't see how he helps our team, he's amazing.
This is pretty much it. Having a capable winger on the left wing (rotating with Garnacho) and Amad/Garnacho on the right should be the way forward.
Someone like Williams would create threat and space for others to work in.
We supposedly wanted Olise who is a different profile to Zirkzee. Then when we missed out we went all in on defence and midfield
We supposedly wanted Olise who is a different profile to Zirkzee. Then when we missed out we went all in on defence and midfield
Unironically, should have bought Fullkreug as a stop-gap.
Rubbish, we need a midfielder, plain as day.
What midfield?
Simply buying more players: strikers, defenders, midfielders take your pick, isn't going to get this team scoring goals when the manager is so lacking in any cohesive tactical nous for attacking play. I'd rather start there first!
What we've seen for the past year is why when a world class striker like Kane becomes available you break the bank to bring him in, because he's a sure thing.
It's so frustrating going into every weekend knowing that City have a striker like Haaland who is more or less guaranteed to get a goal and we have nobody who can finish off chances properly.
It's so frustrating going into every weekend knowing that City have a striker like Haaland who is more or less guaranteed to get a goal and we have nobody who can finish off chances properly.
Giving a controlling midfielder to this manager is as useful as giving Sauna to a penguin.
Everyone calm down, we can bring McT on when chasing a goal…
I think people have forgotten what it's like to have a proper reliable striker, and so somehow think we don't need one for some reason.
Everyone sees that Chelsea struggle alot because they don't have a top striker to put the ball in the net regularly, but yet some are happy for us to go into the season without one.
Everyone sees that Chelsea struggle alot because they don't have a top striker to put the ball in the net regularly, but yet some are happy for us to go into the season without one.
"sure thing"? Bayern broke a bank for Kane.... and didn't manage to win anything, for the first time in years. You are not really doing yourself any favors with that example, mate
He's a sure thing in the sense that you're guaranteed to get productivity in return for what you spent on him. It's not Kane's fault that Bayern were deficient in other areas, and that another club had a legitimately anomalous campaign
Our attack can be broken down into two categories..
Young & Learning - Garnacho, Diallo, Zirkzee, Hojlund
Proven failures - Sancho, Antony, Rashford
Unless a couple of those youngsters can step up this year and have breakthrough seasons, or Rashford can magically finds his form of two years ago, then we’re absolutely fecked.
Young & Learning - Garnacho, Diallo, Zirkzee, Hojlund
Proven failures - Sancho, Antony, Rashford
Unless a couple of those youngsters can step up this year and have breakthrough seasons, or Rashford can magically finds his form of two years ago, then we’re absolutely fecked.
Of course we do. Have done for a while. That we don't make many chances is exactly why a proven scorer is needed. No point in making more chances for wingers and midfielders to miss.
We are not creating the chances.
And then the Euros.
It’s not finished yet is it? We’re about to splash 60m on one player
We haven't bought one yet, we bought one last summer who isn't good enough. We have spent far more money on forwards and defenders over the years.
The options are:
Sack EtH
Or
We don't get a new striker
Sack EtH
Or
We don't get a new striker
we don't have a recognised goal-scorer... an actual No.9 which is a disgrace for the most famous club in the world