Osman Sow's ranking among Hearts strikers in post-Robbo era
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While fans were delighted to get over £1 million for a player with five months remaining on his contract – a player who’d previously indicated he was looking for a new club – many were still saddened by the loss of a great talent.
Sow was a unique striker. At 6ft 4in with a broad frame, he looked like the archetypical big man: dominant in the air; deficient on the deck. Yet he was the opposite of that. His aerial prowess was almost non-existent – this writer can’t think of any headers he scored – while he would routinely beat players for skill, especially when given the chance to drift into the channels. When granted open space he would turn on the afterburners and race away from incredulous defenders who couldn’t believe how a man almost cumbersome in his first step could be so fast over 30 yards.
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