Lautaro Martínez

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Really like the look of him, his movement is excellent, he's really skillful and looks really clinical. Just 22 years old as well. He's the striker that plays next to Lukaku that actually moves and tries to do things.

Has scored some crucial goals against Juventus, Barcelona and Dortmund already this season. Could be the Conte style of play as well but he's really flourishing.


Scores from some incredible angles as well and 2:05 :drool:
 
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He is like poor man's Aguero, skillful player and also has very good movement. His finishing is bit hit and miss, which is expected from a young player.
 

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Where did Inter buy him from and how much did he cost?
Racing Club, he's Argentinian and they were his first club. Around 20-25 million Euros, if i'm not mistaken. Their league is brimming with his type, in varying qualities of course, but there doesn't seem to be much demand for them at the highest level of European football. The reason for this being that although he's a good dribbler and can make things happen with the ball plus his movement can unbalance defences, he's not a forward, he's not a play-maker and he can't play on the wings (because their type doesn't give a feck about defending). He is a SS feeding off the movement of the main forward to find pockets of space. So, with him in the starting xi, you'll always need a 442 or a 352 and formations with two forwards aren't very popular in Europe for quite some time now.
 
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Racing Club (Argentina) for £12M.
Racing Club, he's Argentinian and they were his first club. Around 20-25 million Euros, if i'm not mistaken. Their league is brimming with his type, in varying qualities of course, but there doesn't seem to be much demand for them at the highest level of European football. The reason for this being that although he's a good dribbler and can make things happen with the ball plus his movement can unbalance defences, he's not a forward, he's not a play-maker and he can't play on the wings (because their type doesn't give a feck about defending). He is a SS feeding off the movement of the main forward to find pockets of space. So, with him in the starting xi, you'll always need a 442 or a 352 and formations with two forwards aren't very popular in Europe for quite some time now.
Thanks chaps, it's always interesting finding out where other clubs find these gems from. Don't think we've ever bought from a South American club before.
 

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Your memory is clearly better than mine :lol:
We were clearly put off by them as we've never been back since :D

To be fair Rafael and Fabio were the last ones, but technically I don't think they ever played professionally in Brazil so not sure that counts.
 

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Seen a-bit of him and haven't been particularly impressed, to be completely honest.
 

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He is very strong and quite good in the box indeed, a prospective Aguero for the times to come maybe.
 

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We bought Diego Forlan from Independiente :D Kleberson also directly from SA
We acquired Possebon form Internacional's youth setup as well. Looked promising early on. Gutted when Pogatetz broke his leg or ankle. There was a period around 2008 where we were linked to 3-4 different Brazilian youngsters and they even came to one of our home matches? Something like that.
 

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He is like poor man's Aguero, skillful player and also has very good movement. His finishing is bit hit and miss, which is expected from a young player.
Judging from the volley at the far post, he really isn't a poor man's Aguero
 

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Judging from the volley at the far post, he really isn't a poor man's Aguero
1 incident/play won't prove whether he is poor man's aguero or as good as aguero. His play style is similar but he lacks the balance/strength of Aguero.
 

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He’s the player we are told Jesse Lingard is supposed to be.
 

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1 incident/play won't prove whether he is poor man's aguero or as good as aguero. His play style is similar but he lacks the balance/strength of Aguero.
At Lautaro's age Aguero was over complicating his finishes for Atletico and being outshone by Forlan. He's got time to get stronger
 

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At Lautaro's age Aguero was over complicating his finishes for Atletico and being outshone by Forlan. He's got time to get stronger
yeah, not comparing them at same age. I compared him to today’s Aguero
 

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Very good player. i have been watching more of Inter to get a few laughs out of Lukaku's play and have been very impressed with Martinez.
 

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Finally found his feet for Inter after a tricky season last year. I don't think he worked well with Icardi so that made it even trickier.

According to Wiki, he has 9 goals in 15 caps for Argentina. Very impressive. For all the attacking talent they've been blessed with in the past decade, have they finally found one who'll replicate his domestic form for the NT?
 

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1 incident/play won't prove whether he is poor man's aguero or as good as aguero. His play style is similar but he lacks the balance/strength of Aguero.
He's like a taller and lankyier aguero. Really looked like him when he broke through(when he was shorter and more agile)

Still very much one for the future though. His decision making is horrible most of the time, and he still plays like he's figuring out what he can and can't do. Biggest problem is there doesn't seem to be much he thinks he can't do atm
 

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He's nothing like Aguero. Aguero was dribbling like Maradona as a teenager, he's much more of a fox in the box type who struggles to dribble anyone.
 

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He's like a taller and lankyier aguero. Really looked like him when he broke through(when he was shorter and more agile)

Still very much one for the future though. His decision making is horrible most of the time, and he still plays like he's figuring out what he can and can't do. Biggest problem is there doesn't seem to be much he thinks he can't do atm
Funnily they are the same height.
 

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Funnily they are the same height.
They're not. It's not a big difference but Lautaro's a couple inches taller. Thing is Lautaro used to be around Messi's height at 18 and really looked like a clone of aguero

The important part though is that aguero has a lower centre of gravity, which gives him better balance and agility. He's also downright quicker
 

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Really like his personality. Given how many Argentine strikers can't replicate their scoring rate for the NT he's done very well already for them.

This is his second season in europe, used last year to settle in and improve on some aspects. Pretty much hit the ground running in a way Gabriel Barbosa couldn't when he joined Inter a few years back.
 

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They're not. It's not a big difference but Lautaro's a couple inches taller. Thing is Lautaro used to be around Messi's height at 18 and really looked like a clone of aguero

The important part though is that aguero has a lower centre of gravity, which gives him better balance and agility. He's also downright quicker
They are pretty much the same height. I wouldn't say Aguero has a low centre of gravity and Lautaro doesn't, Lautaro doesn't get much credit for his dribbling.

 

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They are pretty much the same height. I wouldn't say Aguero has a low centre of gravity and Lautaro doesn't, Lautaro doesn't get much credit for his dribbling.
Again, look up pictures of them standing together. There's a couple inches of difference. Anyways, the more important difference here is centre of gravity, and yes, Aguero has a very low centre of gravity, it's weird that you think otherwise, whereas Lautaro quite clearly doesn't, again, weird to think otherwise, it's pretty evident just by watching them

And Lautaro doesn't get much credit for his dribbling because he's not a very good dribbler. He dribbles a lot, and fails at it a lot
 

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I've seen him quite a bit for Inter and have never been impressed, personally.
 

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He is like poor man's Aguero, skillful player and also has very good movement. His finishing is bit hit and miss, which is expected from a young player.
Then Rashford should be a poor man's Wellbeck if Lautaro is a poor man's Aguero.
 

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The Aguero comparisons are weird because IMO they are not similar players. Its evident even at Atletico that Aguero is or was going to be a complete forward who can hurt teams at any area in the final third. Lauturo seems to be the floating/shadow striker type who is only good at finding goals. And I think he needs to be paired with another forward to be truly effective. He doesn't seem to have the ability to lead the line.

The only thing Lauturo is better than Aguero at the same age is probably his finishing. Aguero was a very streaky forward with inconsistent finishing at Atletico.

Again, look up pictures of them standing together. There's a couple inches of difference. Anyways, the more important difference here is centre of gravity, and yes, Aguero has a very low centre of gravity, it's weird that you think otherwise, whereas Lautaro quite clearly doesn't, again, weird to think otherwise, it's pretty evident just by watching them

And Lautaro doesn't get much credit for his dribbling because he's not a very good dribbler. He dribbles a lot, and fails at it a lot
Aguero is abit shorter (1cm) but is 5kg heavier. Lauturo probably has his weight evenly distributed throughout his body. On the other hand it is clear to see that Aguero has that Maradona physique which gives him insane balance. His thighs are ridiculously thick for someone his height. Bone density and structure also plays a part too I guess but that's all sports science. Hazard has the same physique and he is 1cm taller than Lauturo.

Source: Wikipedia
 

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At Lautaro's age Aguero was over complicating his finishes for Atletico and being outshone by Forlan. He's got time to get stronger
What? That's ridiculous. Aguero with 18 yars old was already better than martinez, with 22 he was a monster in Atletico already fecking every single team there was.
 

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The only thing Lauturo is better than Aguero at the same age is probably his finishing. Aguero was a very streaky forward with inconsistent finishing at Atletico.

Where do you take this from? Aguero scored 100 goals in five seasons for atletico, which is 20 goals per season. That's not bad at all considering he got there with 18 years of age.