So...
I will raise again my original question.... Is it time to play Locadia (in position, for 90 mins) in preparation for next season now that we have just games against Top 7 clubs to go and a point here or there is probably the best we can realistically hope for?
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Although we disagree on his suitability for our next game, this is the exactly the right answer to my original question.
We have a chance to bed in our new signing before next season with a few games where defending will be more lightly to steal a point than attacking is to win us 3, so give...
I would say he is about the same skill level as GM but shows more effort/desire. Locadia offers something different but we need to change style to monopolise on that. No point in starting him without playing to his strengths. But given the other options are big and slow (and ineffective)...
But Locadia appears to have been bought to be first choice next season. Far too expensive to be a bench warmer and so the question was do we start to build around him now (tactically with an eye to future transfers). Replacing GM with a loanee isn't really planning ahead very well.
Signing Locadia and Ulloa lit a fire under him and he went from lazy to putting in a shift and a goal run.
But we are clearly back to a situation where he is feeling his spot is safe and CH shows no sign of thinking differently.
Surely it's time to drop him for the remainder of the season...