Was reading somewhere how Lautaro was a level below Haaland, Mbappe and Kane. I'll take this Lautaro any day every day over any of those 3 players.
I mean I fully support our guy, but honestly Mbappe is on another stratosphere as a player. Where he lacks, and it costs him, is his mental state, his priorities and the general toxicity around him. I mean I'd take the guy in of course, but only if he can be tamed. And it doesn't look likely. He'd thrive in an environment like Real Madrid where players are free to do whatever they want and be larger than the club. We said this other part a lot about Lautaro, which was lack of consistency. Mbappe is like that and hasn't really fixed it. Lautaro seems to have and taking up the main striker role is something a lot of us were calling for in the last 43 years where he had to work double for Lukaku and Dzeko, or whenever he's on with Arnautovic now. He finally has the liberty to be the striker and not the guy who needs to make things easier for his teammate up front.
Haaland is just more dangerous and will definitely create more chances. But he still looks way too raw. He's also played in the two big leagues that it's easier to score and rarely gets to face important sides in the CL, so his scoring stats look surreal. But of course he's up there.
Kane, meh. Has a few great characteristics but is sub-par in most others. And the most important one, he cannot lead a top team. If anything, he crumbles when the level increases.
Lautaro on the other hand can as proven by his Copa America run and the last two seasons, and despite being injured in the World Cup he didn't care what people said about his quality and performance, he was just there to help. That's priceless.
Lautaro is definitely the more complete player between him, Haaland and Kane. No idea why Lewandowski isn't mentioned ahead of Kane. That's the only guy worthy of mention next to the other two but due to his age he's unmovable. Question is, who do you pair Lautaro with. And Thuram seems ideal. I hope we don't fuck it up for plusvalenza...