that's the thing. Ten Hag had one year already in the club before summer transfer windows opens, he should know that he can't rely on Antony and 90% of the time injured Martial. yeah good old 442 was not used long time but that system was perfected by Fergie and was working like Guardiola's today system. he brings only the players he want. our problem is system/marketing issue. remember when we spoke above about same profile of players, Antony for example is player who work good in Ten Hag's phylosophy but it is not good enough for Premier League. that's why I mentioned that there are not same profile of players, imagine instead of Antony we had Bernardo Silva. I guess we finally understand each other
the needs of the position itself is what make the profile of player let's say a CM with weak defensive skills or a ST that not so fast all of these could kill many talented persons but their focus on other things that let them exist it is not always the coach choice to give them the chance. Any player should know himself this what i'm talking about as profile so it is not the player skills it is like in where he can perform the best and the more the player perform the best he will be opened for other things to do or to improve so automatically it is a level thing so let's put mount at "fast short passing situations with possibility of some long ones" its like he can build so we will see things like that Modric did at Madrid if not it will be the same and he need to work more on accuracy and instinct decisions like turning with ball or moving forward with ball to break the opponent 10 man defending ....
Okay mate i will put you at my place, here is my vision here as a football follower
Position : ST
Job : Scoring goals
Requirements : "Finishing" + "Good positioning and Good reading"
Skills that make the profiles : Quantity and Quality of goals
So here we are talking about both of them let's start with examples :
That time : Ruud van Nistelrooy/Filippo Inzaghi. (Full Strikers)
This time : Karim Benzema/ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
now if Ruud could be right here at this time he will looks more like Zlatan as the requirements above
but he can be Benzema too
So where the skills as "Quality" it means the player himself his tools to perform and adapt to the "Position" and "Job"
This means we have 2 things any person can see about them : Acrobatic Finish (include even a simple one touch goal)/ Long Range goals (compared to how many times they took chance to do it to know the accuaracy between number of tries andgoals)
So after all of this the best is Ruud van Nistelrooy, this time best is Zlatan Ibrahimovic .
Benzema out of list because of tactics things (but he can be the best as special striker), Inzaghi too because most of his goals could be offside but he has the requirements and can represent many strikers nowadays .
Finally, the last thing is the PACE and the 2 best ones here are Ruud van Nistelrooy and Benzema with possibilities of rising ones like Erling Haaland, Darwin etc... Ruud van Nistelrooy is the profile .
BTW you can apply this thing when it comes to Mbappe CF/Depay CF/Rashford CF/Martial CF but who is the profile here ? and for the first ones you can add others like Henry/Batistuta/Berbatov etc ...
So i hope that you right now understand me and maybe like what i told or not