He’s no less out of position than Elvis, Kosta, Trent, even Tomić - who all managed to show more promise in their first nine appearances.
It’s also not like he’s an outright right-footed right winger who needs to operate down the right line (or left-footed left winger who needs to operate down the left line), he could supposedly play both wings. I think he’d be the first such player who absolutely can’t do a job in a second-striker role playing off a nine.
In our system with underlapping tucked in tens he gets plenty of opportunities to drift wide and has absolutely received a lot of ball in wide positions and not shown anything.
When I look through fotmob and see his average rating from premier league to championship to eredivisie to a-league consistently in the low 6s, I start to think that maybe he’s just not that good?
Happy to be convinced otherwise, but he really hasn’t yet.
