Are you serious? Have you watched the way Bruno plays?
How often does Bruno run behind the striker? Look at the goal V Leicester in the league, the goal against Roma?
He would be perfect link up with Bruno. We also have Rashford who likes to run in behind, so he can find that ball.
What we lack is hold up play, Harry Kane is brilliant at that and can find a pass, so I can see his link up with Bruno being brilliant.
Finally, if you have watched him closely, why do Spurs score so many counter attacking goals and him being one of the top scorers if he can't spring forward?
Yes, I am serious. And oddly enough, I have seen Bruno play before.
My take on Bruno’s game is that when he receives the ball, he needs players running away from him, not towards him. Despite goals that he has managed to score by getting into the box, the more common trait of his game is to look to quickly release forwards ahead if him.
And Spurs score many counter attacking goals because Kane releases the runners that are going beyond him. Bruno is the one doing the releasing, he may like to get forward but like Kane, hasn’t got the speed to be the player we are trying to release on the counter. Dortmund also score many counter attacking goals, but Haaland isn’t the one playing the ball over the top or into space - he’s the one the ball is being played in to. Basically, that will not be Harry Kane. And if it is, he will have to hold it up and wait.
Simply put, if Bruno receives the ball in the transitional phase, he would be better served looking up and seeing Haaland running towards the goal than Kane running towards him. Which he will do because he knows he can’t beat anyone in a race. A couple of years and a couple of ankle injuries later, Kane will be playing almost behind Bruno altogether.
Apparently ‘what we lack is hold up play’, which is news to me, as it keeps changing. The most consistent trait we have been said to lack from our centre forwards or forwards altogether is a natural striker’s instinct. The first thought to attack the box. Now people are acting like this conversation has never happened or something. When everyone has been saying all season how ‘Martial doesn’t score that goal because he wouldn’t be in there’, or how our forwards all want to come towards the ball in general. The amount of times I’ve heard ‘Cavani is their best striker. In fact, I’d say he is their only real striker. The others all prefer to drift and float’.
Kane is a brilliant player and one of the best in the world, but I’d take Haaland ahead of him (if given the choice) as I feel he’d compliment us better and score more goals than Kane. He will spend more time occupying the penalty box and will dominate it. He is also rapid so he is perfect for finishing off the counter, not starting the counter, which we don’t need him to do. And that is before you even start to consider the fact that he is 20 and Kane is 27/28.
If we played a 433, I’d say Kane would be best suited. In a team that plays an actual #10, then I think a striker that will get out of his way and focus on being a #9 is what is needed.