It is going to be hard to buy a striker as good as DCL at this point. Kean was actually a good attempt, but even he didn't really have a case to be playing instead. I agree we shouldn't buy players viewing them as backups but that is what the situation is going to cause a striker signing to be.
Of course it'll be hard, but we don't need a player that's just a 'striker'.
The player we need has to be an all-round forward - if we're playing 4-3-3.
Someone who can play instead of or alongside James/Richarlison/DCL, whether that means one of them sitting on the bench for a game or two or James dropping back.
They're probably never gonna have the creativity of James, which is fine, he's one of a kind, but if they can bring a bit of what Richarlison can bring in terms of attacking positioning, then it gives us options.
Plea, Thuram, Zaha, Matheus Cunha or Dudi Lukebakio from Hertha Berlin, Sarr. That type of profile. Quick, powerful players capable of playing anywhere across the line.
As a stop-gap, King would have been okay and would have given us that type of player, albeit not at the standard which would make us top-four contenders - but he would have meant our back-up options weren't Iwobi or Bernard or Tosun.
We're hardly gonna have our first-choice XI fully fit through the season. We'll be lucky to get 12-15 games out of them as a full side IMO.
It's where our side falls down - complete lack of decent depth in key areas.
Btw, I agree with you on Kean. In an ideal world he'd have stayed and we'd have still got someone in, getting rid of useless Walcott and having that extra bit of quality in there instead.
