difference is Elia was never that good to begin with whilst his temperament and attitude didn't help him either. Llorente at least comes across as someone who is determined and shows a better attitude
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Do you not think that by not having an orthodox trequartista that hasn't helped Llorente? Vidal and Pereyra are hardly the most creative of players whilst this has been compensated somewhat with Tevez having to drop deeper leaving Llorente isolated not helped by his immobility
It's more than that. He didn't have that Trequartista last year either, but had a much better season. I think that the rest of the league has caught up to him, and he did not adjust properly. He is the type of player that needs to feed off of the good form of others in order for him to succeed. that is what I have seen this year. Morata is not that type of player. His ability to create, as well as having size comparable to Llorente, makes him much more of an all around threat.
In allegri's system, the forwards need to be able to run. they need to be able to run into space. In his years at Cagliari and at Milan, he always had strikers that were like that. Llorente is the first of his kind that Allegri has worked with, but again, we are running into a scenario where if the player is not self sufficient in certain aspects of the game, then Allegri cannot afford to go out of his way to build the system to that players liking.