Forget the Future, Duran Might be The Striker of The Present

I think it’s time to seriously table the idea that Duran is our striker, every time this topic is broached it always comes with the disclaimer that we love Ollie and Ollie is a great servant to the club and it’ll be no different here, love Ollie.

But I think we’re all seeing a big difference without Duran and Rogers, numerous times I saw the Leicester defence with a huge gap between centre backs and Martinez had the ball in his hands, and Ollie was nowhere to be seen, and I just kept thinking to myself, if Duran was on the pitch he’d be bursting between the two of them and EXPECTING the ball over the top.

And today I think I really fully understood the difference between them, and I hope this makes sense, Ollie pays attention to the action and Duran takes actions that demand attention.

We call him captain chaos for a reason, but in his last few performances I felt he’d reigned in the chaos slightly, he had controlled bursts of erratic play coupled with the structured approach Emery wants and clearly defenders couldn’t handle it, along with his strength and speed. All this to say…

Villa need to hold onto Duran no matter what, he needs to be an untouchable, same for Kamara, same for Rogers. At this present moment in time those 3 are potential world beaters and if we’re a club seriously looking to make strides we need to hold onto players like them as difficult as it may be