I am in full agreement.
Mateta is a 'worker' but lacks skills whereas Edouard is more skilful and moves better and should be given a chance - but we desperately need a more creative midfield. Kouyate, Luka can't pass creatively. Hughes is better and McArthur works his socks off but none of these can be called a 'midfield general'

I genuinely believe that Christian Eriksen could be the answer.

Maybe its easier to by a right footed left winger and play wilf as CF

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Chances are created, in the main, from midfield. We don't need at this moment to change the strike force. We need to upgrade our midfield players, particularly with Gallagher going. Also getting numbers into the box when we attack, another thing that Gallagher added with his energetic play.
I'd expect to see another hard working box to box midfield general player come in, to complement Eze's natural ability.
Schlupp, Kouyate, Hughes, don't have it in them. McArthur will probably be a bit part player, Jairo will probably leave so the midfield is an area where we need investment, not the forward line.

A lot of sense getting spoken today!

The strikers are decent, not top draw but decent.

Being the size club we are, we cant afford to buy the finished article. We have to find these 15m players and take a bit of a gamble.

JPM looked like a gamble to fair, but has now come good. OE started great, but has gone off the boil.

But as someone else stated, its only really the top couple of clubs that have superstar strikers. And our attacking unit is really strong.

If the goals are spread amongst the team, the role of the front man isn't so focused on scoring.

Take West Ham for example, they only really have Antonio up front, and he hardly ever scores.

My view is that there may be a possible misconception that the CF needs to be our main goal getter. In many ways the output of our strikers simply matches the trends in the modern game. The CF is no longer there just to score goals and there is a firm trend to inverted wingers being the main supply line.

Second point is our CFs scored 15 goals between them last season. To what extent does it matter that those goals were shared between 3 players? 15 goals is a decent return and not far short of 20 which is probably the optimum for a club of our size/ranking.

General thought is though that the problems lie in how well our forward line combines to create the right number and type of chances. We often looked dominant and/or pretty last season without actually creating that much.

Perfectly happy here to run with Olise Mateta/Edouard Zaha next season with the two inverted wingers combining to be our most likely source of goals with the central forward creating space and chipping in. To make this happen it would help to have a RB who can overlap on the right as Mitchell has on the left to allow Olise to cut in to even more effect.

I didn't get this comment either. You could argue a number of teams aren't PL standard but their Modus Operandi is to muddle through and survive.

The two mentioned have the potential to have a decent career in the top league IMO.