I like Richie. He works his balls off and he’s been playing well recently.
This.
The problem is if he’s not a regular starter I don’t think he has the technical ability to come in and be an impact player. His only decent form for us has come when he’s had a run of consecutive gamesno matter how he plays.
Could well be our dilemma moving fwd.....
(I crossed the last part out because there were already chinks of light, performance-wise, before his goal-scoring run kicked in this season...... A goal-scoring run which FWIW helped carry us through this exceptionally shitty injury/cards/int. cups spell since the Chav game.)
....In a similar vein of quandary; if the tactical-rotation between Son & Rich can be handled appropriately then between them they can pose a viable solution at ST, but I similarly think chopping and changing with Son rotating between LW, ST or bench will likely play into his own proven tendency for droughts and purple patches alike.
When the season started I predicted that Son would end the season as ST (and that it was a season of evaluating exactly who suits us and where for ALL our attackers)....... I've not wavered from either.
I don't think there's many (any?) here that have portrayed Rich as the unquestionable answer to our ST needs for the coming years tho. Some people are all to keen to mis-represent people embracing his upturn and getting behind him as the former.
Classic case being this guy (who has openly claimed that unless you think Rich is useless, does nothing but get the odd tap-in and is utterly shit then "you don't know football":
Where are the people praising richarlison...?
Doesn't play well = Doesn't get praised..... Bit of a headfuck for you is it?
It's you shitting on him when he DOES play well that's the notable phenomena here, dickhead.
The people praising him previously haven't been doing so without reason. He's not been praised without question so STFU and stop pretending that's what's been going on.
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