The 2022-2023 season has just ended, Lionel Messi has moved to the US to play for Inter Miami. Karim Benzema joined the Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittitah, while he was still the current "Golden Ball" winner. Not long before, Cristiano Ronaldo jumped from MU to Al Nassr, also in Saudi Arabia. There is no need to say more about the need to buy good strikers to replace them, of PSG, Real Madrid and MU.
Player Osimhen becomes expensive character in the summer transfer market 2023
From other perspectives, good strikers are also valuable "commodities" on the transfer market. After a period of being in the dark with a style of play revolving around the role of "fake striker",
Pep Guardiola's Man.City finally added a real striker last season. There's no need to say more about the value of Erling Haaland, with 52 goals in all competitions. The revival of the "classic number 9" was a popular topic when the Premier League ended, with Harry Kane (Tottenham), Ivan Toney (Brentford), Callum Wilson (Newcastle), Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham)... all very successful. Any coach would want a top "money player" like Haaland in their squad, not to mention the trend of attacking with real strikers is coming back strongly.
Bayern Munich is determined to strengthen its strikers, after a thrilling season (winning the Bundesliga in the last minutes), no one can replace Robert Lewandowski. MU also revealed its intention before the summer transfer window: buying a good striker is the number 1 priority. Although it has initially recovered under the coaching of Erik Ten Hag, MU is still inferior in class to Man City, even losing to Arsenal, because of its worst scoring ability in the "top 6" in the Premier League. Chelsea and Liverpool failed last season because they could not solve the problem of scoring goals... The importance of striker quality is becoming clearer than ever, in the top football village in Europe.
Of course, excellent strikers always have very high transfer prices. Nigerian player Victor Osimhen has also been on the rise for Napoli. But his transfer price is being pushed up to around 150 million euros because there are too many teams looking to buy good strikers. Because of this trend, it is difficult to say whether Tottenham still wants to keep Harry Kane or not. Randal Kolo Muani is on the rise in the Bundesliga. Knowing that they cannot keep Muani, Eintracht Frankfurt asked for 75 million euros, just 1 year after they bought Muani for... 0 dong, from Nantes! Marcus Thuram (Monchengladbach), Rasmus Hojlund (Atalanta), Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus) are other notable strikers being hunted in the transfer market.
Having money to buy stars is one thing. Whether or not you can buy the right person, like Man.City bought Haaland, is another. Darwin Nunez (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Chelsea), Antony (MU), Richarlison (Tottenham) are big contracts that have disappointed in the Premier League last season. Coach Louis Van Gaal once admitted: sometimes he makes mistakes in judging people (recounting the story of buying Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid to MU, but failed). Even a good coach sometimes makes mistakes. The problem here is that when buying a famous striker whose value does not develop as expected, the pressure on the coach will be very heavy, because the press will not ignore the sky-high transfer price of the star in the story when criticizing that star.
High probability: Summer 2023 will be a noisy transfer season for strikers. Who will succeed at the new club, that is something that is difficult to predict.
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