Everyone wants to be the "10" today.
The guy who does multiple stepovers, beats three men, before unleashing a curvy sexy caress in off the post.
The man that out muscles the two brain dead bozos in the opposition's central defence and bullet heads into the goal with the neccessary force. QPR in recent decades seem to have had difficulties in acquiring the number nines and we are not alone in this. England's Harry Kane has no real ready made replacements, at all.
Case in point, false nines can be used. Messi, being the ultimate hero. Charlie Austin, first time around, probably our last effective nine.
The games changed but ultimately the game still requires your team to score more than theirs. Haaland being the ultimate nine currently. And when he was rested recently, City played what is known now as the false 'nine' with Phil Foden in position.
Would love it, if we ever found the ultimate nine - the ever elusive missing piece of the jigsaw. Seems they are very sparse in todays markets. When we tried to accomodate two up top with Burrell and Kone, it worked.
Dont have kids myself but is this the same in kids football or even on the Sunday League grounds too. The 'nine' certainly seems to be a dying breed today. Even our dedicated stats team seem to have found the target man that finishes off the moves, ever elusive.
Where is our Melchester hero up top.
'Roy of the Rovers' - are you still out there ??
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