PSG’s Search for a Striker: Edinson Cavani vs. Carlos Bacca

Similar to the quest for the Holy Grail, it sometimes feels like a never-ending search to find a top-class goalscorer. Clubs will often take a chance, gambling on a youngster or a journeyman veteran, or like Paris Saint-Germain this season, sometimes you have to stick with what you’ve got.

After the departure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, PSG made the decision that Edinson Cavani was their man and the Uruguayan would lead the club through the 2016/17 campaign. 

It hasn’t stopped players being linked, though. Vincent Janssen, via L’Equipe (h/t TalkSport), and Alexandre Lacazette, also via L’Equipe (h/t Sport Witness), were reported targets in the summer.

PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi told Le Parisien (h/t Goal) that El Matador would start as the club’s main No. 9 this season: “He [Ibrahimovic] was a scorer, a great scorer. [But] Cavani is one of the best in the world. Watch his goals throughout his career. Cavani is one of the best in this position, why look elsewhere?”

From the outside, his record looks great this season. Eight league goals in six appearances and two goals in two Champions League games. However, the jury is still out, and the Parisian club have been linked with a move for Colombia international Carlos Bacca in January, per George Boulton of the Sun.

PSG head coach Unai Emery worked with the striker at Sevilla, where—if you just count games in the league and Europe—he scored 45 goals in 99 matches, according to WhoScored.

He joined AC Milan in 2015 but was apparently close to leaving the Serie A club this summer after they finished outside the European spots, with West Ham United interested in taking him to the London Stadium, per Sky Sports. In the end he decided to stay, happy to work with new coach Vincenzo Montella.

For West Ham fans: All 20 Carlos Bacca goals at Milan: https://t.co/Cm2Aw41WYW

— Matteo Bonetti (@TheCalcioGuy) July 9, 2016

After confirming his decision to remain, Bacca told Milan TV (h/t Fox Sports) in August:

The truth is that I had not taken any decision. I’m happy here with the group, working and trying to prepare myself for the first game in the best way I can.

I’m very confident for the upcoming season, with a coach who likes to play with the ball and play with purpose. I like that, because this way I could get two or three chances a game.

“When the intermediary presented the offer, I consulted with my family and decided to stay,” the 30-year-old striker told Sky Sports Italia (h/t MailOnline). “It was the right thing for me to do. I wanted to remain because I …

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