Fabio started his loan on fire but it's gone quiet recently and Anderlecht appear to be struggling as a whole. I'd be interested to hear some balanced views of how he's getting on over there, but they appear rare on SM.
The fact he was scoring goals at the start of the season shows that he knows where the goal is. If he was in our starting 11 and we actually played to his strengths, I have no doubt that he'd score a few here. But we don't play to any of our forwards strengths.
Ultimately we are paying the wages of Raul Jimenez, Sasa Kalajdzic, Diego Costa & presumably most of Fabio Silva's - all of them are employed by the club, but currently, all of them are useless to us and not fit for purpose. All four of them are capable of scoring goals at this level, but for reasons that have all been widely discussed, none of them are.
Hopefully with JL in charge and potentially a new, fresh face added to that list above, that will change.
Diego Costa has no long term future here. I suspect we've seen the last, or nearing the last, of Raul Jimenez too. That leaves Sasa and Fabio from next season. Shi will point to the names on the payroll already, but we definitely need another forward (one that JL personally picks out and wants to work with) onboard ASAP.
