Dude, I watch Félix every week and have been following him from youth ranks, both these posts are so off and unfair. First of all, let's clear some things up. Félix is not a striker - nobody ever claimed he was, I only even read this CF talk on English forums. Can he play as a CF? Yes, but he isn't one atm. Why would you be looking for a striker's movement in a player that plays behind the striker? His job at Benfica was never to be the first one pressuring, that's Seferovic, so of course you're not going to see him press like you would see a striker. Also, not every team has Man City's playstyle, not every team has their strikers pressure the opposition's defense like you do. There are so many reasons to counter the argument that because you don't see x do y, x can't do y. Your reasoning is so flawed.
Thing is, what you say isn't even true. His off the ball work is tremendous, he is literally everywhere on the pitch. You'll see him start a play just outside his own area and you'll see him finish it. To say that he just strolls between lines waiting for the ball is plain revisionism. It's the exact opposite. I don't even know where you got that idea from. He plays better off the ball than Bernardo did before joining City. And that brings me to another issue - he is 19 years old for goodness sake, do you think you are getting the final product? At 19 he already shows more promise than Bernardo did, look how good Bernardo is now. He wasn't half the player at Monaco. Heck, he was a (better) playmaker at Monaco, but Pep revamped him to be the workhorse he is today.
«Why would Pep bring in a young forward that can't press like a madman?». What does this even mean? He can. You had no indication that Jesus could do it before he joined City. Why? Because he learned it from Pep. You had no indication that Bernardo could be the all-terrain tractor that he is today. Why? He learned to play like that with Pep.
How do you not see a basic ability to lose his marker? That's literally how most his goals are scored. Are we even talking about the same player here? Did you ever watch him play? I don't mean to sound rude, it's just that most of those things aren't true. It's like you say something correct but follow it up by making something up. He isn't like Messi because no one is like Messi, Messi is the best, most talented, gifted, whatever player to ever roam this earth. Félix isn't a great dribbler compared to Messi because literally no player on the planet is, but he sure is a great dribbler compared to most players and he's got very quick feet. He is not slow, he is fast and he has pace! Those are some of his most obvious traits! It's just frustrating to read these tings being spread as truth when they quite simply don't match the reality. Again, no, he isn't a CF (as of now), but he is also none of those things you said. He plays as a SS because we at Benfica have a tradition of playing with 2 forwards, that doesn't mean that's all he can do. In fact, if he played as CF i'd reckon he'd be very similar to Mbappé, just with better dribble (and, of course, some worse attributes as well). But again, playing him as a CF would be a waste of his talents. And he sure as hell doesn't belong on the wings. He covers the whole field, but he belongs in the upfront middle part of the terrain from where he can drop everywhere, be it backtrack and receive a pass from the CB's, which he does a lot (so much for strolling between lines, like wth), go on the wings and make use of his pace (beyond me how someone can claim he doesn't have pace) and, most importantly, make an assist or score.
That being said, I hope he doesn't leave us.