Ferdinand, Yeboah, Henry, Yakubu, Cantona, Shearer, Van Persie, Cole, Yorke, Bergkamp, Wright...
...theres been a lot of top class centre forwards in the premier league.
Now we have:
City: False 9
Chelsea: Lukaku not doing great
United: Ronaldo close to retirement
RS: Firminho probably replaced
Vardy: Close to retirement
Kane: On his last legs
Times have changed and centre forwards who can score 15-20 goals in a mid-table team are highly prized assets.
Were in an era where 'wide forwards' seem to be the focal point of goals.
DCL (and Vlahovic) are fairly unique players thesedays and while one has done well for Fiorentina and has 18months on his contract...the other has premier league experience and is English.
£80mil+
Tbh Ive been thinking similar but I could see him playing centre forward which was his position in Brazil.
I would really love it if we added more 'quality' Brazilian players.
I was thinking of an Nkounkou type signing or someone like Ramsay at Aberdeen for £3-5mil.
Disagree about Patterson (and Mykolenko) needing to play (well) this season. Both signed in Jan window, young and need time to adapt...i think they'll do fine for the rest of the season and kick on after preseason.
If we play Coleman (or Kenny) then its suicide. Likewise playing Holgate/Godfrey at full back for any length of time hampers us.
If we had signed Patterson and Ramsay at the same time id have been pretty chuffed.
A young player on a small fee makes sense to me.
We were linked to him when he was in Beijing...think it was summer 2020.