I love Cutrone as much as anyone else, and I've been a fan of his since day one, for the passion and love he shows for our colors. He's a great talent with a great future ahead of him. That said, he is not ready to carry a team with Milans ambitions right now. I don't think he'll ever be tbh. I'm not saying this to put him down, but both his playing style and body type is enough evidence to me to say something like this. He needs a forward to feed off - be it a striker like Zlatan/Higuan who are target players or a player like Cassano who's creative and can find his partner consistently (forget the names I mentioned, think about the type of player).
I can't see Cutrone being successful in a 4-3-3, especially with the wingers we have today. So when you guys are calling for the club to trust in him and play him as first striker when/if Higuain is gone making him a great disservice. Cutrone needs to play in a 2 man attack with a player mentioned above, someone to be the leader for him to follow and feed off.
I don't know what type of player he'll be in 3-5 years but forget about him being the main guy right now. The two goals vs Sampdoria doesn't change anything, in fact it proves even more that he's more of a joker than anything.
I love Cutrone as much as anyone else, and I've been a fan of his since day one, for the passion and love he shows for our colors. He's a great talent with a great future ahead of him. That said, he is not ready to carry a team with Milans ambitions right now. I don't think he'll ever be tbh. I'm not saying this to put him down, but both his playing style and body type is enough evidence to me to say something like this. He needs a forward to feed off - be it a striker like Zlatan/Higuan who are target players or a player like Cassano who's creative and can find his partner consistently (forget the names I mentioned, think about the type of player).
I can't see Cutrone being successful in a 4-3-3, especially with the wingers we have today. So when you guys are calling for the club to trust in him and play him as first striker when/if Higuain is gone making him a great disservice. Cutrone needs to play in a 2 man attack with a player mentioned above, someone to be the leader for him to follow and feed off.
I don't know what type of player he'll be in 3-5 years but forget about him being the main guy right now. The two goals vs Sampdoria doesn't change anything, in fact it proves even more that he's more of a joker than anything.
In games where he doesnt score he often looks like he brings nothing on the table and that is his problem.
Cutrone had one of the best minutes-per-goal ratios last season, mainly as a starter in a 4-3-3, without Higuain. There were Borini, Suso and Hakan to feed off, though.
Body type? Implying that he's too weak?
He's a factor in the air and he's the most energetic CF we've had in a long time. That's enough. There are a lot of players in this squad that are not up to par physically - Cutrone's not one of them. He may not have the height and physical strength of the classic battering ram, but those players tend to not have his agility or endurance.
The lack of Milan success post AC Ibra/Cassano seems to have distorted your view of how a football team is supposed to look like. The 9 needs teammates to feed off. That's how a proper team looks like. The 4-3-3 creates room for wide target men. You think Higuain was independent in Napoli, Juve or RM? He missed tons of sitters for Napoli, and so did Cavani, and yet they were reaching goal tallies others can only dream of. Is he fairing better than Cutrone now under the same conditions?(he may have declined, but I don't think that's all there's to it)
I'm glad we finally have a striker that can be a cog in the machine instead of the whole machine, a striker who is also the first defender, a striker whose work-rate has potential to be deadly against any defense if his teammates could match it(the Klopp recipe for success).
If we lose Higuain, then he needs to be replaced of course. We can't have Cutro as the only option.
What i dont agree is the part you think he will never be the guy to carry us.
Minutes per goal doesn't really mean much to me unless it's a lot of minutes and a lot of goals.
He is weak for the type of lone CF that I like
and "energetic" is just a silly attribute.
Despite everything you say about him, we've never look good as a team with him on the pitch. He doesn't to enough and what he does is not good enough for him to warrant a starting spot in a 4-3-3.
This is simply because I don't think he'll ever become the type of player who'll carry a team. Some great players are very dependent of other others to be great.
It may not be the biggest sample, but it doesn't support your claims.
If he struggles as lone CF then it would be due to lack of height and/or skills, not physical strength.
Being able to press a lot, move a lot, cover 12km...that's not a silly attribute.
I don't expect the CF to make up for what the wide players and midfielders are lacking.
What claim? You had a claim.
His pressing most of the time is useless, he's too "energetic" and press in the wrong way. Add to that a bad pressing system in general regarding the whole team, I don't know when you've had the opportunity to be impressed by his/the teams pressing.
This team would benefit hugely from Ibra and you know that.
Look, this is turning into a Cutrone bashing post. It's not and you're just being a twat. Read my first post again. Cutrone is and will always be useful, but I just doubt he'll ever become what people in here seems to think.
hundreds of millions spent on different strikers...meanwhile from the youth team, he is a natural born goal scorer
STFU Cutrone h8r did he piss in your cereal or something?
No need for such language, and he is not hater or anything like that
their management/coaches they hire understand football, milan don't.If freaking Napoli can, then why can't we?
their management/coaches they hire understand football, milan don't.
are you telling me that Maldini and Leonardo don't understand football?
maldini is a glorified intern, it's all on leonardo and gazidis
and let's see how they deal with this mercato and the next one.
past ones clearly didn't/were out of touch, coaches were n00bs
over 30 years on the highest level = glorified intern
you think he has a say?
I'm telling you I don't blame maldini for any of the signings, I believe he's just learning how management works on all aspects and the guy making the player decisions is leonardo.
so yeh imo maldini is a glorified intern in terms of power, maybe that will change in the future.
I doubt maldini even knew who samu was until they signed him.
These buys are definitely discussed within the management team, with Leo (and now Gazidis) having the final say.