He is a 9 who can be utilized as winger, not the opposite.
He is very good goal scorer whom the club has been trying to sign since he was 17, decent connection with teammates, good control of the ball for a striker and very fast.
Style wise he is closer to Mbappe than Dembele imo, quality is obviously not close to Mbappe.
He is also much cheaper than other no9 options in the market, players like Halaand, Isak,Vlahovic will cost a fortune
Yeah.
I still think Laporta will try everything to get his next star (Haaland) but hopefully we'll have alternatives in case we (most likely) won't get him. Sometimes alternatives can prove to be better than first choices as we've seen in 2003 with Beckham/Ronaldinho. Obviously we'll never know how Becks would do here but he couldn't possibly have a better impact on the club than R10. Maybe this time we'll sign Dani Olmo instead of Haaland and he'll become a Ballon d'Or winner.
More seriously we can't afford a proven world class striker (not that there are that many out there and those who are are mostly too old to fit into our rebuilding team even if we could afford them) so we'll have to take a risk with someone. And better doing that for around 30m than at least double that price for players who have done more so far in their careers (proven themselves in better leagues like Isak or Vlahovic) but are still far away from a guaranteed success here. From what I've seen from Adeyemi I like his versatility and think he could complement well with Ansu but if he'll never fully recover Adeyemi could also replace him.
I don't think potentially buying Adeyemi in January would totally prevent us from going after Haaland next summer either, at least not from a sporting perspective. Financially would obviously be tougher but if we'll get 40m for Griezmann (almost guaranteed unless he gets seriously injured), possibly 30m for Trincao and if we sell Dembele (after renewing him now) for another 40m while we also somehow offload Coutinho's wages I think it's doable*. But if we wouldn't get Haaland we'd still be in good state with Fati, Memphis, Adeyemi, Dembele and potentially Aguero who could maybe turn into new Larsson although I'd look for someone younger and less injury prone for that role. Alternatively wouldn't mind looking for an improved version of De Jong as a plan B bench striker. Or maybe Luuk himself will prove useful, score 15 goals and we'll sign him on a short-term deal next year. Very unlikely but stranger things have happened.
*I know we also have needs elsewhere but think we could potentially target free agents like Kessie (looks more and more likely he won't renew with Milan) or someone like B. Kamara for around 20m to improve midfield. As for CB I'd like to see how Araujo and Garcia will do together before we spend big money there. Not a big fan of De Ligt personally and he'd be too expensive as well. I like Kounde more but think he'll probably go to Chelsea in January before we could even consider signing him (if he's even on our shortlist). Either way, there are cheaper CBs available who would improve what we currently have, we just need to find them.
