Strikers are a dying breed in youth football.

When I was a kid everyone wanted to be a number 9. Today you'll find very few kids who aspire to play in that position and if you ask most kids where they want to play now, they'll usually answer "CDM" or "CAM" (for those over 40 that's Central Defensive Midfielder and Central Attacking Midfielder.

There is also the situation where the role of the centre forward seems to change constantly every couple of years.

You see a player like Jordan Rhodes who was born to just score goals who currently finds it difficult to fit into today's game.

Would you call Roberto Firmino a striker in the old sense of the word? Yet he's probably considered the best around now.