Lapadula had double the goals and assists as Kalinic with the same amount of minutes. Even Adriano has better stats.
I don't know what people see in Kalinic. To me, he's the shittiest forward we've had in a long time. He's average at best at any aspect, has nothing outstanding.
The fact that we spent money on him and sent our other strikers away makes it even worse.
To be honest stats are his weakness, a lot of the things he does don´t show in stats. He has the determination and the little bit of extra height (that Lapadula and to some extent Cutrone miss) to work the defenders, create spread balls or win balls from defenders. For a CF of his type he moves a lot too and has a very good work ethic.
He needs to be more dangerous though and like all our strikers he has his weaknesses, but he is far from a bad player.
I really like Lapadula as a person but he is Serie B player and lacks the potential for more, with a little bit of extra height or speed he probably could have achieved a lot more.
He almost only scores against relegation-level teams which are close to Serie B niveau, the one goal he scored against Roma this season is really the only exception of the rule.
Adriano scored only 4 goals and looked out of place in Serie A too, his stats are not even something special in the much weaker Russian league.