Yeah kinda this, he is what he is. Sometimes it’ll work (typically away from home or at home against sides that play high - Villa sat deep today), sometimes he’ll look like a 6’4 Portuguese Beckford.
If we'd prioritised a world class number 9 we wouldn't have got the class midfield we have now. We'd have a great player isolated up top with nobody to give him the ball, and we'd be leaking more goals because we wouldn't be able to keep the...
Blunt instrument, will work sometimes.
Sometimes he’ll look totally out of place.
Today was the latter. Almost every blue coming out today was talking about “if we have a decent 9 we win that today” - hard to disagree.
Lad will score 10-15 this season which realistically is mental. Should we strive for better? Yes. But he's the best we've got right now when he gets it right