The market for strikers is really thin, which means we’ll get a good fee for Darwin.
However it also means we might struggle to replace him.
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Im not sure about the good fee, the market excluding Saudi is going to be Spain, Italy and they aren’t paying loads.
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Fully agree but what would the team actually be replacing? Is it the goals? Assists? Clever build-up? Set-piece threat?
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Well, if he provided loads of goals and assists he wouldn’t need replacing!
We’ll be looking for a reliable forward who can operate as a focal point for the attack. I don’t know who is available.
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I had to be a bastard, mate, sorry. After all, the best humour is gallows humour.
I don’t have any names as well but I’m thinking it won’t be a classic no. 9 like him.
I agree. I really think we’ll be profiling for a Bobby Firmino type.
The only way I think this changes is if there is a massive upheaval in the forward line, like Salah and Diaz going.
We’d be replacing this: FFS DARWIN!!!
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The Diaz experiment might be illustrative of this. He has played the role more like a “false 9” than as a central striker occupying the last defender and giving us a focal point for our attack.
But with Jota in and out of fitness, Nunez in and out of form, the form of Gapko, and Mo’s goal scoring form it could well just be a show of pragmatic flexibility of how do we get our most in form players on the pitch and set up in a way that brings the best out of them.
I think with the questions over the make up of our attack next season it really could go either way
Diaz is worst than Nunez in that position.
The pre match thread has demonstrated ample replacements.
Quite apt given his latest match-winning miss.
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Not sure if it’s been mentioned at all before, but his time is up.
The crazy thing for me is that – and I don’t mean this pejoratively – it genuinely seems like something is missing from his mental acuity. Obviously most of us have our peak level in whatever discipline, and maybe moving up a level is just too far out of our depth, but based on the same elementary mistakes being made game after game, it seems like his physical attributes got him a long way without ever really developing psychologically as a player. I used to assume that the mental attribute was equally as important in terms of making it as a professional, but I guess there are a number of players who are probably more physically or technically gifted that were able to make it.
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Darwin…Darwin…Darwin…love u to bits…love your enthusiasm to help defend…but boy u do need to put the ball between the sticks…the clock is a ticking…
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The clock has already struck 12.
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Try him at right back.
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With the open goal and the one Martinez saved, did anyone really expect him to score? That’s the most damning indictment. You’re surprised when he does something good (other than defend and put himself about)
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Szoboszlai probably thought Darwin would score there.
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Absolutely. I wonder whether he was ever properly vetted in this regard (a Klopp indulgence?) as he’s the big exception wrt all our signings in the last ~5 years in that he just hasn’t got it.
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