Plenty of clubs play with traditional 9s to great success.
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Donāt understand that table the only outliers are Firmino (High distance and sprints) and Lukaku (low distance and low sprints). everyone else is just a mix of inbetween.
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If there was an abundance of number 9s like there was in the 90ās they absolutely would want them. This is a talent issue.
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Yeah not to mention Firmino is basically a peripheral figure at Liverpool now
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Thatās virtually all it is. Are we going to pretend that guys like R9, Henry, Shevchenko didnāt have a high work rate and didnāt used to drop deep and cut out from wide areas too.
Itās totally a talent issue. Strikers stop being old school number 9s back in the 90s and basically developed greater all round games a long time ago.
No competent manager wants Foden, Firmino or Havertz as their long term number 9 options and thatās precisely why Chelsea chased a new 9 all summer and why City are desperate for Haaland
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Hilarious as well when people draw to the Liverpool example when in their system the full backs are basically wingers and Salah and Mane spend half their game in the box lol
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This is the kinda striker Arteta wants now tho. An upgraded Lacazette.
Bayern Munich certainly donāt seem to mind playing with one.
Real Madrid V PsG was literally an advertisment as to why this rhetoric is false. Benzema as a 9 won that fixture single handedly against PSGās most expensive fluid front 3 ever compiled.
Iāll take someone who knows every facet of the role of a number 9 all day every day. There just arenāt a ton of them in the game anymore.
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Lukaku and Aubameyang are players with low amount of touches per game and donāt really effect the game unless inside the box.
I havenāt seen the segment on MNF, but having goals funnel through one central striker (like Auba or Lukaku) isnāt the strategy. The CF needs to be able to drop deep, vacating the traditional space for a striker, so that the wide players can arrive in those spaces.
Aināt nothing like a world class #9 clapping goals for your team.
The traditional #9 will never go out of style for me
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Worthwhile no. 9s are better but rare so the clubs have to adapt.
Neville with the lazy low IQ take. Shocked I tell you
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Sounds all well and good but Guardiola was using Aguero until he was done and Firminoās lack of production started becoming too much of a problem. Mane and Jota actually score goals up front.
Cavani was one of the finest hard-working goal scorers out there. Heās 35 now.
Hold on a minute by the way, Neville wanted OGS to build the side around Ronaldo FFS. Fucking bullshitter.
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They give that cunt a free licence to say whatever he wants on Sky.
When heās on ITV, flanked by Wrighty and Dicko, he soon shuts up.
Honestly heās reaching Redknapp levels of bad punditry.
Jenas, Neville, Savage, Owen, Redknapp are guys that donāt deserve to be on TV giving their take on football.
Would much rather punditry jobs went to established coaches / managers now. You hear legitimate gems from the Wenger and Mourinho type characters that ex-players who never had a decent coaching career will never be able to.
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Bet you if they included Salah in that chart he will be sitting with Ronaldo and Auba.
Not sure what this is trying to achieve. Itās actually embarrassing if you consider what Benzema and Ronaldo have done the past week.
The value of donkey work is at an all time high I see
Seriously, Mourinhoās stint on Sky he clowned all of them with his knowledge. Doesnāt even have to be Mourinho level either. When Slaven Bilic was appearing on BT Sport with Scholes and McManaman Bilic was the only one offering any proper insight.
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Lol, Neville and co. chatting a whole lot of nonsense then them passing it on to Mourinho who often completely disregarded their takes, gave a completely different analysis and they just stood there like morons nodding.
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