Grace, do you think Spain’s inability to produce a new generation of number nines as good as a David Villa or a Fernando Torres part of the wider trend in major European countries recently of not developing that type of role/player anymore? I wonder how France for instance, even with Mbappe, will cope eventually without a Giroud or Benzema.
Great piece as usual. On the first footnote, if you’re really going to try and maintain that as a rule you’ll need to always refer to Cristiano Ronaldo as such as well.
Grace, do you think Spain’s inability to produce a new generation of number nines as good as a David Villa or a Fernando Torres part of the wider trend in major European countries recently of not developing that type of role/player anymore? I wonder how France for instance, even with Mbappe, will cope eventually without a Giroud or Benzema.
Great piece as usual. On the first footnote, if you’re really going to try and maintain that as a rule you’ll need to always refer to Cristiano Ronaldo as such as well.