There's absolutely no doubt you've got a good point here and dismissing it would be so naive.
Kean is an excellent buy if you've got a 29 / 30 year old striker of quality that he can learn about the english game from and gradually replace. Having DCL there is really poor business. Not because he's never going to be good enough, I think at this point it has to be filed under "unknown", but instead due to the fact he's going through his own progression.
The conclusion is we are without a striker who can regularly score goals and take the pressure off the rest of the team. Make no mistake, the shower across the park do very little defending. City over the last few years the same. The reason for that is these sides put their opponents under sustained pressure. We actually do the same, certainly not to the same degree, but we don't have a single assassin in that front line.
For
Iwobi 28m + wages
Bernard wages
Richarlison 35m + wages
Kean 28m + wages
Walcott 20m + wages
DCL the anomoly. I'd imagine very cheap on wages.
Tosun 27m + wages
To go into the season thinking there is enough goals in that front line is really, really poor from Brands.
Throw in we now have a genuinely under performing Sig', we are bang in trouble of finishing as low as Martinez did. I don't see relegation trouble but instead an expensively assembled squad still missing the key ingredient of goals.
Of course, it doesn't help that Gbamin and Gomes have been injured.
Finally, as I'm sure you'll admin
@davek , Silva is getting things wrong too.
Take Saturday. Burnley 9/10 go 4-4-2. The primary reason we pumped them last season was our excellent 3-5-2 system. With 3CBs to deal with their direct balls into the front two, it allowed us to flood the midfield and completely dominant the game.
Holgate should have come in and we should have replicated that exact system. Instead, it's 4-2-3-1 and whilst yes we had a few chances, there wasn't anyway near the domination of the ball not the creativity from having so many in midfield.
I think he's headed for the exit. He seems to have stopped doing the things he was doing last season. There's no fluidity. It's just the same every week, pushing the agenda and waiting for it to work. It's very Bobby-like. And not in a good way.
