Isak hype is real especially after his last few games, but hes such a weird, weird player. Hes as much hit and miss as a player can be thanks to his unconventional playstyle. I dont think thats the type of player we should be looking for.
As for Lautaro not being a #9 - he is. No idea how you can watch Inter and think hes a 2nd striker. Then Aguero, David Villa etc pp wouldnt be strikers as well (not at all comparable to real 2nd strikers like Griezmann). I agree that ~111ME would be excessive, but for 80ME I wouldnt bat an eye. Hes pretty great. As for only one season: I dont think that matters when hes individually up there. "One season wonders" dont show that kind of consistent individual talent/touches. Those are more the James/Asensio type of guys who score a few wondergoals.
Sure, for 70-80m I wouldn't mind him but we won't get him for that. As I've said I like Lautaro a lot but just don't think he's what we need and tbf I'm scared as hell of our 100m signings so I'd prefer to avoid another one.
Would you risk €70m on him though? Apparently that's what it will take. I do like the look of him but I'd like to see him do it for 2 seasons to prove he has consistency. He's certainly the only current alternative I can see to Martinez at the moment.
Agree we should probably just bank our money and sign a la liga striker for cheap because I'd hate for us to waste another €100m.
I think he'd be available for 50-60m and I'd take a risk. The only problem is that BVB can buy him back for 30m so we'd need to negotiate with them which wouldn't be easy after what happened with Dembele.
As for a wait and see approach we can't do this. If he'd continue to perform like this for 2 more seasons he'll probably be unavailable (already in a bigger club) or his price will be 100m+ if Dortmund takes him back and then a risk is even bigger (especially with our past experience buying 100m+ players). Sometimes if you like a player enough and think he's the one you should take him when you can. We've probably missed on a lot of good players because we took too much time to evaluate them.
Isak is just my wish though as there is absolutely no rumour linking us to him and I don't think he's on our shortlist of potential transfer targets. He'll probably be if/when he'll be a 100m+ player though.
