Richarlison is a center forward to me until we have the personnel to let him play on the wing. That includes a center forward and a reliable right wing. Walcott is toward the end of his career so maybe 2 years for him. Onyekuru Lookman and Bernard will be competing for spots and someone inevitably will leave as you say.
Augustin is similar to Richarlison to me in that he's a mobile striker who can play wider if needed. I haven't seen more than a couple games of him from watching Lookman last season tbf.
Augustin is just a central striker who reminds me of Anelka, martial and Henry in their general skillsets...all of which are best at CF. The typical rapid forward mould who can slot with good awareness.
Hes a proper CF who can create goals, run channels and of course score whereas Richarlison is more of a player who wants to charge direct at goal everytime...like kanchelskis used to do when wide.
Can be lethal and scares defences but perhaps needs to adapt more to CF and as a link to others....just my take on it.
When Lookman was behind him I wont go overboard but they looked like they could play well together. A couple of assists each from good interplay with one another and same age of course.
So, I think if we did sign Augustin then its worth us keeping Lookman to play both that role and rotate with richarlison who in turn could take Augustins place when necessary.
Even if we went for 2 box to box players it would be handy to change formation and move the Deep midfielder forward, take off a centre mid (or the deep player) and play with a 10...when were going for a goal.
My view on the first 11 has changed a few times this season, at the beginning (and since a couple of years) ive wanted Neves as our DM as a deep playmaker with 2 box to box players ahead....even someone like Torreira i highlighted in summer as someone who would suit that position so its not a player type set in stone...
Now ive come back to that way of thinking...but with Lookman we can have someone who can be used when we want to change from a deep player to an attacking player in the centre so from a DM to an ACM.
Whats interesting is also that in our first 11 id say only 4 players (Gomes if he signed would be 5) would be starters for a evolving team....
So im especially interested to see if we go for a RB / CM / RF / CF in this window as then we will know more clearly how Silva wants us to play and what players will be needed in the next window to complete most of the first 11 rebuild.
What I would love is if we sold one or two of Coleman, Walcott, Gana and Sigurdsson as that would show progressive change in how we do business and that we have clear targets...not only selling deadwood.
As I said, played okay, Palace won as Leicester were plop
Coleman also played plop, have also watched that Doherty lad from he seems to be playing well for Wolves.
There are plenty of options out there
I read that Palace only had 1 shot on target and scored from it lol
They rarely score many goals so their defence must be well drilled.
In theory this is the cheapest position in our team to be upgraded and so it may be something we look at in January if other teams are keen on our players then it could help us negotiate.
