I tend to disagree with this. Attackers should be different not the same mould. Having the option of pinging crosses in to chase games or bringing a big man on to defend set pieces is not to be sniffed at. Also since Poch we have become very long ball focused and don’t play through the midfield. I wouldn’t want to start games with a Wood type but would be good for a plan B, just like I think we should have wing backs and full backs for different approaches
That's what we had with Llorente, did it work? No.
I'd rather have a good enough striker that would threaten Kane's position in the team and require him to raise his level as a response.
I want a good enough striker that can come into the team on a regular basis, on rotation with Kane to keep him fresh and/or as above challenge his position. Having an old school target route one man will mean to accommodate him we would have to change our way of playing. Like all of the best managers in the World Conte doesn't really do this, they play their way regardless of who the personnel is (they are all stubborn).
I want us to have won most games by the 70th min, with us managing the game by then. If we are chasing the game in the last 20 and our only route has become a desperate hoof into the box then we are fucked. City, Liverpool & Bayern don't play this way because they trust their plan A will deliver with the players they have. When they make late subs they don't change how they play, they continue with plan A because this is what is winning them games at a ridiculous pace.
City, Liverpool and Bayern don't have backups for their CF's. They just have fantastic quality attackers that allow them to continue to play the way they do. (We did this under peak Poch when Kane was out, played the same and continued to score and win games when he was out, we didn't really miss a beat).
To have a quality CF/Attacker to push and/or compliment Kane is who we should be going after IMO. Conte had Martinez AND Lukaku for example both able to cover one or the other if injured, both often played and complimented each other when played together, both providing each other the competition. A good example is he also brought Alexis Sanchez, that old clogger from the disastrous spell at Utd (he wasn't great at Woolwich in his last couple of seasons there too), but rather than he be the classic plan B striker, when brought into the team Inter played the same.
I think route one Plan B lumping it up the pitch in desperation is not what the elite teams do, if this is what we are building towards then why would we entertain doing anything other.