19 | Julian Alvarez - 2022/23

[mrbelfry]

After the first few games he played for City I thought he might be a little quiet and lack a little personality. I thought he may get overawed by the other players and forgotten about. Seems Im an idiot

 

[yankblue]

Come on. Alvarez is great. Haaland is vastly better.

Come on, that was clearly tongue in cheek

 

[woody1968]

Alvarez + Foden + Haaland. Enough said.

 

[shroom]

After the first few games he played for City I thought he might be a little quiet and lack a little personality. I thought he may get overawed by the other players and forgotten about. Seems Im an idiot

think he's grown a ton in this WC tourney, City gets the benefit

 

[SWP's back]

If you guys dont mind him Real Madrid will.Hopefully its the latter as River will as with Enzo gain a lot

Hi there. Do one. Thanks.

 

[kun]

Alvarez can literally play anywhere in the front 3 though, so no need to be facetious. If we want to just let Alvarez be a backup striker to Haaland and ONLY that, then we can kiss goodbye to him within a few years. We’ll need to use him from a wider position, or change formation and play him behind Haaland. But that affects KDB quite a bit, unless we go with a back 3. But these are the conversations Pep and his coaching staff will be having. Alvarez can’t be ignored.

Playing Alvarez on the wing is not an improvement on Grealish or Mahrez.

We do not need to change the way we play to play him behind Haaland - that's where KDB plays most games. His issue is there are 2 spots for him in the team taken up by probably the 2 best players in the entire league. KDB needs to move to accommodate Álvarez, not shoehorning him in on the wing.

Álvarez's skillset doesn't suit the wing much at all.
He's quick but hardly rapid. His ball control and dribbling isn't brilliant. He doesn't maintain possession as well as any of our other wingers. He has fantastic pressing, fantastic finishing, intelligent movement, and one touch/touch-and-move play. These skills are all underutilised on the wing.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Has there ever been a current City player in a World Cup final before? I really can’t think of one.

 

[kun]

Has there ever been a current City player in a World Cup final before? I really can’t think of one.

Agüero, Demichelis, Zabaleta (2014)
Nigel de Jong (2010)
Silva (2010) - kind of, he joined that summer - also didn't play
Voldemort (2018) - didn't play

 

[footballmanager]

this kid has balls, he has been fighting big central defenders the whole tournament(even won a header or two vs van dijk), bumping into them and running like theres no tomorrow. Pep must be delighted with what hes seeing

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

He could be the fucking man....