19 | Julian Alvarez - 2023/24

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He always looked to be a bit on the fringes in a lot of the official club output last season.
Maybe he’s a bit shy or not one for being a Billy big bollocks straight off.
He seems to be learning English to a decent standard.
This season he is coming on in leaps and bounds. I always felt we had made a fantastic buy when we got him lovely to see we did .
All the headlines for Erling have allowed him to just adjust to a new club, country and so in without constant scrutiny. To say he’s grasped his chance would be an understatement.
 
Love watching him and Haaland work their bollocks off for each other. At the start of the season they were taking up each other's spaces and now, mostly I think to Alvarez(?), they're both taking up such dangerous options and working together the work out the problem in front of them. Sometimes he's ahead of him, sometimes he's dropping back. It's like we've combined the dangers of the false 9 system with the dangers of the Haaland 9 system. Must be a fucking nightmare to defend against.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
Love watching him and Haaland work their bollocks off for each other. At the start of the season they were taking up each other's spaces and now, mostly I think to Alvarez(?), they're both taking up such dangerous options and working together the work out the problem in front of them. Sometimes he's ahead of him, sometimes he's dropping back. It's like we've combined the dangers of the false 9 system with the dangers of the Haaland 9 system. Must be a fucking nightmare to defend against.
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I was fearing that he and Haaland didnt appear to gel when both on the pitch at the same time....thought perhaps we needed one or the other at any time.....im glad to have been proven wrong!
 
He's going have a monster season! Also, his success with us will also attract more Argentinian talents to us like Barco which is great to see!
 
Ridiculously good, but also ridiculously fit - he was buzzing about everywhere but when Foden went off who looked knackered, he passed Alvarez on the way who looked like he'd been chilling all game.
 
River Plate said:
He is much more than he demostrated in City up to now, and I don't think it has anything to do with the position he plays. Here in River he played as a second striker a ton and had great games.

In that position he was a dribbling devil and a had a lot of through balls for us, whereas in City I haven't seen that yet. It's almost as if he's playing it too safe, not wanting to turn the ball over. He doesn't risk going one on one, or trying to thread the needle with a pass that breaks the line. I don't know if it is because of Pep's style of play or because he's not 100% confident yet.

Still, all in all, I think he's doing quite allright for a guy that isn't a certain starter and has only 1 year of experience in European football: he presses like nobody, helps in all the areas of the pitch, links up well with his teammates and has machine-like efficiency with his finishing (outside of the last game, which is the worst game I've ever seen of Julian in front of goal, and I've seen every Julian game as a professional).
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These last two games are more like the player I know he is. Clearly getting all these starts in a row gave him the confidence to feel like he belongs.
 
River Plate said:
These last two games are more like the player I know he is. Clearly getting all these starts in a row gave him the confidence to feel like he belongs.
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He is really starting to look a player. Made far less errors in last couple of games. His attacking contribution today was excellent but he still managed to make the joint most tackles.
 
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