Speaking on the Footballer’s Football Podcast, Callum Wilson has been talking about how he thinks he’d get on at Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.
This City team is, without a doubt, one of the best attacking sides world football has ever seen. They create chance after chance and dominate the ball, and they manage to do so without deploying a traditional number nine.
Wilson says that if he was spearheading this attack, he’d easily score more than 20 goals a season.
What’s been said?
Wilson was speaking with Michail Antonio about this City side.
“How many goals do you think you’d get if you were playing in that team?” Antonio asked.
“It’s a silly question, I think I’d be scoring 20+ every single season. I’m an out and out number nine, a goalscorer in the box. You’d get opportunities galore it’s just about if you’d take them. You have to think with that much quality around you in every position and having so much of the ball, you’d always have options, but it probably doesn’t compliment my strengths their style of play, because I run in behind and harry defenders and be a nuisance in the game, but City play against teams in a low block, they’re compact and hard to break down, and they need that intricate passing, which is probably why they don’t play with a striker,” Wilson said.
Easy
It may sound ambitious, but we reckon Wilson would easily bag 20 goals for this City side.
This is a striker who once managed to score 14 Premier League goals in a distinctly average Bournemouth team, while he netted 12 in 26 while playing under Steve Bruce last season.
If Wilson was allowed to get on the end of the chances City create, he could well be a Golden Boot contender.
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