I'm still not 100% convinced on exactly how much our forwards are "shackled" and how much is that other than Raul, none of them have ever been goal scorers. Hwang scored none in the Bundesliga. Podence scoring 6 a season in the Greek league was his best. Traore can't be shackled, yet still hardly scores.
Either they are shackled everywhere...or it's that our forwards are not direct enough. They can do the tricks, but are largely ineffective. To much icing, no cake. Too inconsistent too. When we play the same formation and team, week after week, and one week Podence is brilliant and the next, invisible, it's got to be him, not "the way we play". And we have a whole forward line who go from brilliant to invisible. Too similar, in their own ways, all inconsistent enigmas! Then we have Dendonker, top of our XG league already. Arrives in great positions, yet finishing so bad, he should be getting 5 goals more a season.