New striker?

FromPollockToSilva said:
This is the way.

Senior forwards signed by Guardiola as a manager:

Zlatan Ibrahimović
David Villa
Alexis Sánchez
Robert Lewandowski
Douglas Costa
Kingsley Coman
Leroy Sané
Gabriel Jesus
Nolito
Ferran Torres

Wity the exception of Ibra (which did not work out) and Lewa (who is one of the best center forwards of his generation), Pep has only signed technical, versatile, quick forwards. Ings and Lukaku don’t fit the bill even remotely
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Obviously if you add a load of wingers it will look like that. He's not signing a bunch of slow, strong, tall wingers... is he?

Centre-forwards:
Ibrahimović
Villa
Lewandowski
Jesus

50% of his striker signings are tall, strong, lethal target men.

AND one of the small, technical strikers played his whole career under Pep as a winger (Villa)
THE ONLY "small, technical, versatile, quick" CF he signed that he actually played as a CF is Jesus.
 
kun said:
Obviously if you add a load of wingers it will look like that. He's not signing a bunch of slow, strong, tall wingers... is he?

Centre-forwards:
Ibrahimović
Villa
Lewandowski
Jesus

50% of his striker signings are tall, strong, lethal target men.
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He played Villa wide left most of the time, and Gabby lines up there fairly often too. So that’s Ibra, who he sacked off after a season, and Lewandowski, probably the best pure striker of his generation.

He’s signed and actually kept one traditional striker in his 12 seasons as a senior manager
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
Forwards that Pep has sold as a manager:

Samuel Eto’o
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Thierry Henry
Bojan Krkic
Mario Gómez
Mario Mandzukić
Stevan Jovetić
Edin Džeko
Wilfried Bony
Nolito
Kelechi Iheanacho
Enes Ünal
Leroy Sané

A lot of traditional strikers shown the door
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Also some of the most technical, versatile, quick, talented strikers too. Henry, Gudjohnsen, Eto'o, Bojan, Nolito etc.

P.S. Pep didn't sell Džeko. He had long been frozen out and was on loan at Roma with a permanent deal lined up when Pep arrived.
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
Forwards that Pep has sold as a manager:

Samuel Eto’o
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Thierry Henry
Bojan Krkic
Mario Gómez
Mario Mandzukić
Stevan Jovetić
Edin Džeko
Wilfried Bony
Nolito
Kelechi Iheanacho
Enes Ünal
Leroy Sané

A lot of traditional strikers shown the door
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Did not sell, Jovetic and Dzeko. That was Pellegrini
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
Forwards that Pep has sold as a manager:

Samuel Eto’o
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Thierry Henry
Bojan Krkic
Mario Gómez
Mario Mandzukić
Stevan Jovetić
Edin Džeko
Wilfried Bony
Nolito
Kelechi Iheanacho
Enes Ünal
Leroy Sané

A lot of traditional strikers shown the door
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Bony is the one that still probably haunts him today. What a player.
 
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