And he can play both sides.
How could I've missed that?
did you see goals villa scores?
he can create chances both for himself and his teammates. perfect little striker that can operate wether playing possession football or counter attacking direct football because of his pace.
amauri is not a player that does this.
I've seen him play several times. Of course he can create by himself, which sadly none of our strikers can. At Valencia he has Silva, Mata, Banega, etc. backing him up which suits his style perfectly well because of their speed. Here, our football is much slower and we don't have those kind of players which can open up spaces for him to run and create chances, maybe except Diego.
Villa is obviously a world class player, but we can't afford such a player when we basically need other players in different positions. As you said, we could only have afforded him with the money we spent on 3 players. So covering 3 positions for the same amount is better at the time being, since unfortunately we're still in the rebuilding process .