Truth is, as much as we want Griezmann to work and we can be pissed he's only now getting his first game as our ST, he was a bad fit to begin with. Never should've been bought in the first place. Other players not wanting him was just the cherry on top really. Why do we insist on buying players who then need to play out of position for us? Since we needed/wanted a striker, we should've gone for an actual striker (Lautaro would've been perfect to rotate with Suarez this season and actually replace him as starter by start of next season). Now i'm guessing we'll try and swap Griezmann for Neymar in the summer for sure. Why not wait another year then and just buy a striker or a true LW last summer? We keep putting pressure on ourselves and the players we buy, by aimlessly going for the biggest revenue player, Griezmann was the one big star of La Liga left, after CR gone, and of course we had to buy him, even though we knew he was gonna need to re-adapt to a position he's never played, at least not in Atletico.
We keep buying CAMs or second forwards, when there's no such positions in our default 4-3-3 rotation, and playing them as forwards (either on the wings or up front). In case of Griezmann is literally the same as Coutinho, we're just hoping he can overcome everything and be great for us in a position he never excelled at or even played before in his previous club. And then you have Coutinho being the new Iniesta (lol) and Griezmann playing up front, even though he's basically a lesser Messi. If we insist on playing 4-3-3, we need to be looking for true wingers and true strikers, nothing more, nothing less, simple as that.
