Foden had just four assists when playing centrally last season and there’s not enough link-up play between him and Haaland when he’s central. Not saying he can’t become more creative or won’t, just that he’s not creative enough yet so I wouldn’t want to not sign another midfielder (does that double negative make sense?) and put it all on Foden when he’s not developed his game in centre mid as a creator (he might never though, some players don’t, Bernardo isn’t a particularly creative player either).
You’re bang on about him not being passed to enough, I was just talking about exactly that in Foden’s thread.
I don’t want Musiala, I’d rather sign Wirtz and see a Foden+Wirtz become the de Bruyne+DSilva combo we used to have. Ideally that would have been Foden+Palmer because I thought their differing styles would have really suited each other and once de Bruyne Gündoğan Bernardo and Kovačić have all gone soon, they’d have been the mainstay for years from our academy, but that’s proper gone now.
It’s one of those rough with smooth things: Foden scores a lot more goals when playing centrally, but he is more creative when playing wide. I think people notice goals more than assists so automatically think he’s better centrally when he’s got good attributes for either/both.
As I say, Echeverri is coming in January but I know nothing about him other than he’s a central attacking midfielder.
Plus Oscar Bobb was a central attacking midfielder through the youth teams.
But it’s a total guess at how good they’re both going to be.
