No doubt the games come on leaps and bounds, but also the games evolved in terms of how teams set up and play so its hard to judge.
There are certainly a few “elite” level strikers at the top of the 18/19 season. Same every season I suppose.
Juan Pablo Angel, cracking player!
Have you got the numbers for last season?
Tbh other than Mbappe and Haaland the new generations of strikers aren’t yet up to scratch with by of the previous legends.
Players are now more hybrids than specialist overall. The top players can do everything well without being exceptional at a certain skill unless they’re a unicorn.
But we also have to take into account how many forwards strikers have left Europe recently.
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 38 minutes ago
Have you got the numbers for last season?
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Erling Haaland -- 36
Harry Kane -- 30
Ivan Toney 20
Mohamed Salah 19
Callum Wilson 18
Marcus Rashford 17
Gabriel Martinelli15
Martin Odegaard 15
Ollie Watkins 15
Aleksandar Mitrovic 14
Bukayo Saka 14
Rodrigo 13
Not a whole lot to suggest that things have really changed. Roughly 3 or 4 players get 20 or more goals while the top 1 or 2 players get around the 30 mark. Haaland broke the record last season but he didn't absolutely smash like some thought (me included) by getting to 40 goals or more, and it's fair to say he's been playing for arguably the best team the PL has ever seen so had a good platform to break it, although he is undeniably one of the best strikers in the world anyway.
Interns of individual quality, would the current strikers compare to those of the past 10-15 years?
These days u can get a pen / fk just for falling over with barely any contact. That alone massively boosts players stats.
As other said same amount of goals scored. There are just more goals scored these days by wide forwards and wingers. If you ask yourself where are all the strikers now, can equally ask yourself where are all the goalscoring wide forwards 15-20 years ago that can match with today.
Other random thoughts from that list,
Pires did have a season or two being a succesful goalscoring winger. Wonder how his stats would transition if he was around these days, would suit him even more
Fabregas, one reason I find him underrated as the variety of roles he filled in his career. 15 goals in 09/10, people remember him as a deep lying playmaker but this period and at Barcelona he was also adept as a goalscoring midfielder.
Darren Bent 24 goad for Sunderland ffs, great achievement
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posted on 13/1/24
No doubt the games come on leaps and bounds, but also the games evolved in terms of how teams set up and play so its hard to judge.
posted on 13/1/24
There are certainly a few “elite” level strikers at the top of the 18/19 season. Same every season I suppose.
posted on 13/1/24
Juan Pablo Angel, cracking player!
posted on 13/1/24
Have you got the numbers for last season?
posted on 13/1/24
Tbh other than Mbappe and Haaland the new generations of strikers aren’t yet up to scratch with by of the previous legends.
Players are now more hybrids than specialist overall. The top players can do everything well without being exceptional at a certain skill unless they’re a unicorn.
But we also have to take into account how many forwards strikers have left Europe recently.
posted on 13/1/24
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 38 minutes ago
Have you got the numbers for last season?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Erling Haaland -- 36
Harry Kane -- 30
Ivan Toney 20
Mohamed Salah 19
Callum Wilson 18
Marcus Rashford 17
Gabriel Martinelli15
Martin Odegaard 15
Ollie Watkins 15
Aleksandar Mitrovic 14
Bukayo Saka 14
Rodrigo 13
posted on 13/1/24
Not a whole lot to suggest that things have really changed. Roughly 3 or 4 players get 20 or more goals while the top 1 or 2 players get around the 30 mark. Haaland broke the record last season but he didn't absolutely smash like some thought (me included) by getting to 40 goals or more, and it's fair to say he's been playing for arguably the best team the PL has ever seen so had a good platform to break it, although he is undeniably one of the best strikers in the world anyway.
posted on 13/1/24
Interns of individual quality, would the current strikers compare to those of the past 10-15 years?
posted on 14/1/24
These days u can get a pen / fk just for falling over with barely any contact. That alone massively boosts players stats.
posted on 15/1/24
As other said same amount of goals scored. There are just more goals scored these days by wide forwards and wingers. If you ask yourself where are all the strikers now, can equally ask yourself where are all the goalscoring wide forwards 15-20 years ago that can match with today.
posted on 15/1/24
Other random thoughts from that list,
Pires did have a season or two being a succesful goalscoring winger. Wonder how his stats would transition if he was around these days, would suit him even more
Fabregas, one reason I find him underrated as the variety of roles he filled in his career. 15 goals in 09/10, people remember him as a deep lying playmaker but this period and at Barcelona he was also adept as a goalscoring midfielder.
Darren Bent 24 goad for Sunderland ffs, great achievement
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