All depends on what kind of striker they sign. A Haaland true 9 type? Expect to see tons of assists but far less goals. A false 9? Then I expect he will still be scoring high for a midfielder but not a goal a game

Now we’re talking. Has Raya been much better for Arsenal tho? I don’t think Kepa would have come but at least you’re giving options

Everyone was moaning about DDG last season as well

You know there are not many real class keepers right? Who do you think they should have brought instead?

Is this a surprise to you? Just look at the cost of players, a good forward on average will be more expensive than a good defender, showing teams value a attack over defence

Rice. Won conference league last year so has won something. Has been consistently exceptional over more years than Haaland in a more competitive league. Is incredibly reliable and has shown massive leadership quality and stepped up when his team needs it.

Market prices are definitely subjective so this is a dumb take

Strong disagree with 1, should be the opposite. Give the VAR ref more control, take the pressure off the on field ref. Now the refs have to overthink every decision cause they don’t want to be judged wrong. 4 is the only reasonable idea

For point 4 there will always be a line. You’re just moving the line to however far is now deemed too far offside

Agreed with this, and to answer some other comments, the problem with handball is the recent changes, not the penalty. The whole point of a punishment for breaking the rules is that it’s worse. If you only have penalties for sure goals then the game would massively change the other way to favour the defender, we would see almost no goals and the game would suck. Its already super hard to score and you want to make it harder by encouraging fouls.

With VAR we should be able to catch a lot more diving, so maybe make the diving punishment worse if you think it’s such a big problem?

Agreed with this, and to answer some other comments, the problem with handball is the recent changes, not the penalty. The whole point of a punishment for breaking the rules is that it’s worse. If you only have penalties for sure goals then the game would massively change the other way to favour the defender, we would see almost no goals and the game would suck. Its already super hard to score and you want to make it harder by encouraging fouls.

With VAR we should be able to catch a lot more diving, so maybe make the diving punishment worse if you think it’s such a big problem?

Only flush if something has happened to it, like taking water. Otherwise follow the rest of the comments, drain and fill

That’s the bit that made me laugh, you can say that about any team, if they didn’t lose they’d be top

111 sounds nice but what if he had 1000 chances ? Then he would be a good goal scorer but not a clinical finisher.

To an extent yes, like for sure I knew son was good, but I didn’t realise how clinical a finisher he was without the stats. I kinda just assumed he missed as much as everyone else, but you just forget about them, cause how many shots that miss do you remember over a long period?

Hmm I say they do, just not what most people think, for example xG shows that Son is an excellent finisher consistently over many years.

Yep. Maturing as a player

Hammers. Not that I anticipated he was going to light up the prem or anything but still. Major disappointment

Ings

I think this is kinda what I think as well, most players are system players, unlike a lot of other answers which are saying a system player is a player that fits in certain system. I would class it more as being a system player on an individual player, some players just have that ‘magic’ to change games on their own.