Orban wouldn't be directly replacing Kane he'd be adding to our squad overall mate.
Sorry but we need a striker. Nobody is telling me Richy or Orban are the answer. Richy is made of glass and hardly clinical and Orban is such an unknown.
I understand, But we are losing 30-40 goals/assists/year with Kane leaving. Who is going to replace that? We dont even know if Son will be over 10 goals without Kane's world-class service. There is not chance we will go to Europe with Son/Richy as our main strikers. and Who is Replacing Son on the left Wing Solomon who hasn't ever had 10+ goals/assists per season ever. We need either a Leao or a top striker to replace the loss or we need to expect that we are a midtable team this year.
Yea let’s go down the data route and put all our hopes on Orban who we have a grand total of 18 months of data on.
Would you rather we spend big on say Vhalovic then and if so forgo signing another CB,CM & RW or if we signed 4 players of good quality but with potential would that not be better and Richy, Sonny, Orban & Veliz can all play up top with goal contributions also coming from the overall system as well as: Maddison, Kulusevski, Son, Lo Celso, Solomon, a new AM such as Eze etc etc.
Let's not overlook Son, who has a brilliant record as a No. 9 at the club. Between Son and Richarlison I'm fine with buying a young talent at the striker position and spending the bulk of the money on a truly top-class CB.
Imo we should be buying a top striker, who ever that maybe Vlahovic is obviously available but I just hope we have identified correctly
I actually think Son would perform better at Striker tbf. I just worry when/if he has to link the play.
My big concern with Son as a striker in this system is that he doesn’t have the physicality nor the necessary spacial awareness within the box. He’s neither a fox in the box or a target man. He’s a long step away from Ronaldo when he converted. Look at Richy, he might not have the technique on the ball but he’s strong and is good at find a space when the ball goes out to the wing for a cross or cut back. For me in this system Son, as good a finisher as he is, just doesn’t have the skill set to be a CF. Imo of course.
I don't think "happy" is the right term.
I agree with this and I think Son will probably do better as a striker in this system than as a winger, but again if we’re using Son as a striker why would you not then use the 100m to go and buy a properly dangerous starting LW when we already have a 3rd young striker in Veliz? Why do we need to be making these punts when we’re one position in our starting 11 away from having a really formidable team? (If/when Kane goes). Makes no sense to me. We’ll just end up being perennial nearly men again and losing our best players when we could actually just sign a top player as a Kane replacement and actually make the most of the great team we potentially have built this summer
I am too but I'd just like us to stop acting like it's 2012/2013. I have zero faith our scouting system is up to the challenge. Buying somewhat finished quality for top price is sometimes needed. Spaffing the H money on 2 or 3 "good youngsters" and crossing our fingers is something we've tried before and failed miserably at.
Agree mate.
This would be best solution. Convincing a top/just about to be striker to come here will be next to impossible. Sorting out the defence at least with proven quality will give us a chance over the course of the season.
As others have said, who is out there in the £80-100m range ready to join us?
