2023/2024 Forwards Rumours Thread

[rfU]

Lautaro looked good as the go to guy in attack the few times he played with Sanchez.

Agreed. I think injuries prevented the partnership from flourishing. But again, the problem isn't carving out opportunities for Toro, he lacks composure and finishing, not something you can learn.

 

[varmin]

Also, given the few minutes Correa played, he's not the reason Toro would go missing for weeks. Lest we forget, this is a recurrent problem Toro suffers from. He simply lacks the quality and consistency to be the main guy. Under inzaghi ball, opportunities to score are aplenty. The likes of Bobo and Haaland would feast under these conditions.

He maybe is not the main guy in terms of goalscoring, but he is definitely the main guy of moving the attack forward. Not only yesterday, but in general he drops back to receive the ball often, and in like 80% of the occasions he is able to win a foul or to link up with another player or to beat his personal guard. Lautaro is not and won't be a clinical goalscorer but he offers a lot to this Inter team.

 

[Alex de Large]

Nah Lautaro is becoming a very good finisher by the time, really big progress since he came, both goals ystrday are typical #9.
If anything we neeed another #9. As Thuram-Arna are good to compete the SS role.

 

[Gal]

He maybe is not the main guy in terms of goalscoring, but he is definitely the main guy of moving the attack forward. Not only yesterday, but in general he drops back to receive the ball often, and in like 80% of the occasions he is able to win a foul or to link up with another player or to beat his personal guard. Lautaro is not and won't be a clinical goalscorer but he offers a lot to this Inter team.

He scored two goals on two chances that’s rather clinical… let’s not forget his age, he just turned 25 years this month. There aren’t many 24 year old or 23 year old as his past two season that score the amount of goals he did already at that age. Most at that age aren’t all that clinical under that amount of a pressure, that is something they with age, experience and maturity develop into. We are talking an incredible secluded amount of players who manage to do this, there some who has a break through at age 23 year, but it usually not under pressure at a smaller team, but rarely two years in succession and Martinez did just that under pressure!

Even Zlatan didn’t deliver plus 20 goals before he was 26 years old.

It is like because we have seen Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe, Haaland, Kane, Benzema, Lewandowski, Icardi and Osimhen etc. it somehow goes to peoples head. But it’s not the norm, Martinez belong to a rather secluded amount of players who managed to do this.

It amazes me people can’t see he is a top attacker… what is often overlooked is that unlike the others he doesn’t have an amazing team around him.

He is so undervalued it’s crazy, he is our best player without him we would not even be in the race for top 4. We are not getting a better attacker, just let it go. All that we get will be on a lower shelf. He has been a massive coup.

 

[varmin]

He scored two goals on two chances that’s rather clinical… let’s not forget his age, he just turned 25 years this month. There aren’t many 24 year old or 23 year old as his past two season that score the amount of goals he did already at that age. Most at that age aren’t all that clinical under that amount of a pressure, that is something they with age, experience and maturity develop into. We are talking an incredible secluded amount of players who manage to do this, there some who has a break through at age 23 year, but it usually not under pressure at a smaller team, but rarely two years in succession and Martinez did just that under pressure!

Even Zlatan didn’t deliver plus 20 goals before he was 26 years old.

It is like because we have seen Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe, Haaland, Kane, Benzema, Lewandowski, Icardi and Osimhen etc. it somehow goes to peoples head. But it’s not the norm, Martinez belong to a rather secluded amount of players who managed to do this.

It amazes me people can’t see he is a top attacker… what is often overlooked is that unlike the others he doesn’t have an amazing team around him.

He is so undervalued it’s crazy

This also my point, but let's not deny that Lautaro is hot and cold. Even in the preseason he had one match where he misses couple of great chances. You can't compare him to Icardi for instance in terms of finishing.and converting chances, because he is clearly behind. But, he offers so much more for our gameplay, so I won't dig too much in his bad days alike some other FIFers.

 

[Gal]

This also my point, but let's not deny that Lautaro is hot and cold. Even in the preseason he had one match where he misses couple of great chances. You can't compare him to Icardi for instance in terms of finishing.and converting chances, because he is clearly behind. But, he offers so much more for our gameplay, so I won't dig too much in his bad days alike some other FIFers.

He is a far more complete player then Icardi was and has far more requirements in terms of what is demanded of him and he score goals Icardi never would have because of that. These type will unless they are Messi or Ronaldo generally have lower conversion rate this is true for almost all players when Icardi was at his best, but they offer so much more to the team and it’s more like actually having 11 man on the field.

I would not replace Martinez for an Icardi replica, simply because of that. We are never going to be in a situation where we would have two especially not at that level.

 

[Alex de Large]

And what did Haaland do in the CL final? nothing, and he is the best striker in the world. Lautaro can't score in every single game but nobody can do that.

 

[CoolMan44]

Its not difficult. We have had loads of decent suggestions even at this forum from us casual fans. But you need to have the willingness to spend, which Inter do not. I wouldn't be surprised if some of Marotta & Co's recommendations have been shot down by the ownership.

Even at this late stage, Spurs are buying Gift Orban for €30m & they have been only searching for a week.

Is it official that Spurs have had a 30 million bid accepted? Because Gift Orban is currently starting for his current team.

 

[rfU]

He is so undervalued it’s crazy

Actually the opposite is true, youre the ones comparing him to Icardi, Haaland, Bobo, Aguero, etc. And ibra was the quintessential #10 / support striker. I think he did +20 goals x2 in a top league. But personally I never viewed him as a #9 with clinical finishing.

Nah Lautaro is becoming a very good finisher by the time, really big progress since he came, both goals ystrday are typical #9.

Never. He might win capocannoniere given the rate we're losing top players to EPL / Bayern / La Liga. But clinical, no.

And what did Haaland do in the CL final? nothing, and he is the best striker in the world.

He's 22-23, first season at a new club. Meanwhile he broke all scoring records including a goal a game in UCL. Remind me how many goals Toro scored in UCL last season?

 

[varmin]

But why we shall compare Lautaro to Haaland?! They are completely different type of forwards.

 

[CoolMan44]

And what did Haaland do in the CL final? nothing, and he is the best striker in the world. Lautaro can't score in every single game but nobody can do that.

This. Most strikers go through patches where they don't score. Lautaro is our player so it gets brought up more often as 1) People on this forum watch Lautaro more than any other striker, and 2) A lot of the times that Lautaro goes through a drought, we are missing one of our other strikers to step up at that moment in time. If we had someone else stepping up, it wouldn't be brought up as much. Problem with last season was that when Lautaro had the drought, so did Dzeko, so did Lukaku (or was injured), and Correa was a non-factor.

If you look at Haaland as an example, he finished last season with a 5-game scoreless run, including FA Cup final and CL final. However, most people don't bring it up because Manchester City won both of those finals (he also went scoreless in the 2 games vs. Real Madrid in the semi-final). If Man City had lost to us and Manchester United, I think it would be highlighted more.

He's also failed to score in 3 of the first 4 games this season, meaning he's only scored against newly promoted Burnley in his last 9 Manchester City games.

Robert Lewandowski also had a run last season in La Liga (between matchday 13-26) where he scored 2 goals in 10 games - Barca won 8 of those 10 games, hence not brought up.

Anyway, I probably went off topic, but every single striker (with very few possible exceptions) has the droughts - Haaland does, Lewandowski does, Milito did back in the day.

Lautaro is totally fine and the last player we should be concerned about. Concern should be more about whether we have a guy who can step up when Lautaro has his drought.

 

[thatdude]

We’re lucky to have Lautaro and I’m glad we’re finally building around him. He deserves that and I think it will long term be the best thing for the team. Lukaku was in his prime to it made sense to build around him but there was a ceiling with a team lead by Lukaku. That ceiling was obviously European finals but not winning them. And if we’re being honest it was Lautaro as the leader of the line that got us to a CL final last year because Dzeko outside of the semi-final goal really didn’t give us much. Mind you I still think Lukaku should have started the final. But this team will only be at its best when we extract the best from Martinez.

 

[Nacka]

Bobo and Haaland are a tier above Toro, i won't even go into that. I refuse to, in fact.

Also, given the few minutes Correa played, he's not the reason Toro would go missing for weeks. Lest we forget, this is a recurrent problem Toro suffers from. He simply lacks the quality and consistency to be the main guy. Under inzaghi ball, opportunities to score are aplenty. The likes of Bobo and Haaland would feast under these conditions.

That's your take away from what I wrote? My post wasn't a dig at Vieri or Haaland. I was pointing out that Correa is impossible to play with. Any forward will look worse when they play next to someone that is impossible to combine with. Correa has zero split vision, can't read the game, poor decision making and so on.

If Correa gets the ball chances are high that the attack is over. He'll most likely lose the ball either by making a poor pass or by dribbling into traffic.

Yes, Lautaro has patches of bad form/goal droughts but that doesn't mean that he isn't suited to play as the number 9. I personally think that his goal scoring will benefit from being the main guy in attack. The guy has had to make a lot of adjustments to accomodate for the playing styles of Lukaku and Dzeko. Not least the fact that neither of those guys did any pressing, so Lautaro has had to waste a lot of energy by doing all of the initial pressing on his own the last few seasons. If Thuram can help out in that department I think Lautaro will benefit greatly.

 

[Johnny Ludlow]

I just flipped a Antoninus Pius faced bronze sestertius from Roman Empire 38 times. I got a sequence of 6 heads. Also a 5 tails sequence and a 4 tails sequence.

What I am trying say is that this coin was incredibly streaky. Just like every striker on the face of this planet.

True randomness never looks random, remember that.

 

[rfU]

This. Most strikers go through patches where they don't score. Lautaro is our player so it gets brought up more often as 1) People on this forum watch Lautaro more than any other striker, and 2) A lot of the times that Lautaro goes through a drought, we are missing one of our other strikers to step up at that moment in time. If we had someone else stepping up, it wouldn't be brought up as much. Problem with last season was that when Lautaro had the drought, so did Dzeko, so did Lukaku (or was injured), and Correa was a non-factor.

If you look at Haaland as an example, he finished last season with a 5-game scoreless run, including FA Cup final and CL final. However, most people don't bring it up because Manchester City won both of those finals (he also went scoreless in the 2 games vs. Real Madrid in the semi-final). If Man City had lost to us and Manchester United, I think it would be highlighted more.

He's also failed to score in 3 of the first 4 games this season, meaning he's only scored against newly promoted Burnley in his last 9 Manchester City games.

Robert Lewandowski also had a run last season in La Liga (between matchday 13-26) where he scored 2 goals in 10 games - Barca won 8 of those 10 games, hence not brought up.

Anyway, I probably went off topic, but every single striker (with very few possible exceptions) has the droughts - Haaland does, Lewandowski does, Milito did back in the day.

Lautaro is totally fine and the last player we should be concerned about. Concern should be more about whether we have a guy who can step up when Lautaro has his drought.

No one brings up haalands droughts because he's averaging a goal a game across all competitions. Actually they do bring it up and you're right all strikers go through periods of drought. But they can be at least be relied on in crucial games. One look at Toro's goal scoring record in Europe and its scary to think how we'll make it out of the group.

 

[IM21]

this kid sounds like he will be a problem to deal with in the future

https://twitter.com/x/status/1693272249346760739

 

[ADRossi]

this kid sounds like he will be a problem to deal with in the future

https://twitter.com/x/status/1693272249346760739

Maybe his father is Samardzic's dad.

 

[wera]

All these talks about strikers being good and bad, but nobody is talking about how defenders can have monster games and stop a striker from getting into stride. Give props to Acerbi and co. for having such a good game against Haaland

 

[Nerazzurri_Ninja]

With correa out, who is in?

 

[magnesium]

With correa out, who is in?

Our beloved ex, Alexis Sanchez. Who else?

We love grandpa of course.