Brendan told the media yesterday that he is hunting for a creative, attacking player.
Although all of us believe that we should be prioritising a central defender, this is not bad news for us. Indeed, I’m pretty thrilled by it, as long as we bring in the right player. Those players are not easy to find. When we signed Scott Sinclair I knew we had one.
Now we need another. We need a player in a mould which even Sinclair doesn’t fit.
He plays primarily on the wing, and of course that’s Patrick Roberts’ spot. Sinclair is a little different to Roberts, and to Forrest, in that he also cuts inside and scores plenty of goals, but he lacks the kind of spark that we’re looking for here.
Brendan wants a very specific type.
What some call a “classic number 10.”
We’ve had such players before.
This article will look at the best of them from recent years, the prototype for what we’re trying to sign here.
And just for the Hell of it – and because the highlights are so damned fine – I threw in a video for each of them.
