BoroMart
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Some good points and I guess it's about striking a balance of pragmatism and sticking to your phulosophy.Sorry Mart, I'm going to disagree with you for 3 reasons.
1. "movement" alone is not enough; it has to be the right type of movement with the right service. To get that, you have to have the right balance in your team. Without it, you can be reduced to long balls for your forwards to chase; that won't help you win, and it's not attractive to watch.
2. There is no reason we have to be absolute: a big physical striker does not rule out movement around him. Actually, I believe this is the most effective combination, and has been seen in many of the classic big man/little man partnerships in football.
3. I look at the top teams in the league, and they have some big, physical strikers. Mitrovic, Breaton-Diaz and Gallagher are all powerful guys. Solanke at Bournemouth is certainly tall, albeit a bit on the skinny side (may have filled out a bit; I've not seen him play much lately)
I agree with most of 3, those guys use power, but they ally it with great movement and technique, which is very different to Ikpeazu. I like the option of 2, and think our forward cna get bullied a little, but I've not seen anything in Ikpeazus game to make me think he will do enough against top champ defences to deserve to play