All these roles, to my mind, are exactly where PES has gone down the wrong path. Fox in the Box? If you're striker has good response, agility, acceleration then it's highly likely he'd be at least something of a fox in the box. He doesn't need a card to make him one. So you have a 200cm, 200lb striker with the acceleration of a tortoise and the response time of a sloth but give him the fox in the box card and he's suddenly Michael Owen? What absolute nonsense. By definition of his stats he's going to be a lower league target man.
Although they are not accurate and I am pretty sure they do not work in game, according to the description, (maybe even the translation being KONAMish), in my mind I separate them, according to my feeling of real-life football. It is not absolute though, neither means I am correct.
CF-Strikers PES styles:
Target man: Are players like Crouch, Andy Caroll, Jan Koller, clearly good at headers, almost useless in the rest area.
Goalpoachers: Every fast Striker, with average height, decent and over technic, like Ronaldo, Eto'o, Henry, Shevchenko, David Villa, Anella, Djibril Cisse, general strikers that can start and create situations, starting even from LMF position and transitioning to CF.
Finally the Fox in the Box: I sort here players that are faster then their height allows usually, or more technical, like Drogba or Haaland or Ibrahimovic, although the 3 previous I mentioned, have already more speed and Technique than their body type allows. I mean they are viable far from the penalty box, but in the Box is where they shine.
Of course this is a result of modern football all around esque.if someone in the 90s would tell me that Suker or Raul must come in midfield and mark players or play as a situational side midfielder, I would call him crazy.
To be honest when I first read the description of Fox in the box, back in the days, I thought it would relate to players like, Paul Scholes, who were clearly MFs but used to penetraye the opponent penalty box and score goals.
And always there are exceptions like Thomas Müller, players that after 15 Yeats, still do not know what's their actual position in the pitch
