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He’s probably top 5 most talented players in the entire squad.
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Right now, he’s someone that can be a really good tool to have in a well functioning team that serves him chances.
If he becomes even a good ball carrier, good 1 v 1 player, he becomes a £100m+ player, and one of the best forwards in Europe
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If you could graph, where he picks up the ball, and then where he releases it from, I bet there’s hardly any movement. There’s pretty much no ball carries, it’s all releases, whether it’s passes, crosses, shots from thr position he first got on the ball.
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What you’re seeing once more is how disconnected Spurs possession is without Maddison. He makes everything fluid and connective. As good as Kulusevski is, he doesn’t do this. Add the fact there’s no Bissouma, and Spurs are really struggling to progress the ball
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How has Gomez played for them? Always a fan of his technical game and understanding of angles
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It is, isn’t it 👀😉
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As long as I have your approval ❤️
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But this approach to finishing only works if you take finishes early, and have so much belief in your ability to force the ball into the back of the net. Law of attraction
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…so the keeper can’t read much from how he approaches the finish, so before you know it, keeper has dived one way, the ball deflects in off a stranded leg going the other way etc.
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The first and third goals this week for Sweden show this. The keeper is getting set for where he thinks the ball is going to go, but Gyokeres doesn’t have the refined process to put the ball there, he just kind of hits it early, roughly where he wants it to go…
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A little bit like “if the striker doesn’t know where he’s aiming for, neither does the keeper”
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Not only does Gyokeres take finishes on early, not giving keepers time to react, he hasn’t got a refined process to how and where he shoots, so keepers can’t even read the direction they think the ball is going to go, so they can’t get themselves correctly set.
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It’s actually the speed of it, and lack of refined process that makes it so difficult for keepers to read.
Most players, the way they approach the finish, the keeper can read where they’re going to place the ball, even if they take it on early.
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With players like that, often the biggest question is can they produce when they need to be more subtle, slow down, use more manipulation and timing. But in terms of forcing that ball into the back of the goal when it gets into even slight range, not many better than Delap.
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The players I work with who have been team mates with him at various points mention the insane power he has. Particularly the ball striking. Like an absolute rocket.
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I think you give him a lot of freedom. You don’t limit him to certain areas because he proves again and again he has the quality to produce from so many areas of the pitch, in so many ways, why would you want to restrict that?
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I’d go as far to say Real Madrid are the only club in Europe right now who wouldn’t necessarily improve from signing him (nothing to do with Marmoush, just before Madrid have so many amazing forwards already).