Utility signing could solve three issues
ON the latest episode of our Huddersfield Town podcast Ooh To Be A Terrier, we discussed areas where Town needed to strengthen position by position, and the front line was a significant talking point.
The feeling is the Terriers need another option on the left wing, a clear back-up for Sorba Thomas on the right, and preferably a third striker capable of offering cover and competition for Danny Ward and Jordan Rhodes.
What we neglected to mention on the podcast was that actually there is a way for Town to ensure they box off all of those apparent needs in just one signing.
Terriers fans will already be familiar with how that solution might work. Elias Kachunga and, to a lesser extent, Collin Quaner both played that front line utility role during the 2016/17 promotion season, operating in a variety of positions across David Wagner’s front line as necessity and availability required.
Danel Sinani and Duane Holmes both got close to that last season, but neither of them are particularly penalty box players by trade, with both believing their strengths are ideally best deployed in an advanced central midfield role instead.
What Town need to add is not another player in that mould, but more of a Kachunga/Sadio Mane/ Raheem Sterling type player – a versatile forward who can slot in left, right or centre in a front three and do each job more or less equally well.