What we've got on our books is a potentially good striker in Origi. Only 20, raw, relatively untested, but has already improved greatly from his first few outings in a red shirt. We can only hope that that upward curve continues and he becomes an important cog in the team. The mistake I think, would be to go into next season with Origi being your choice striker, and sharing those duties with Sturridge or another striker if Sturridge gets sold - which is being played out in some quarters rather dissapointingly.
Origi has shown glimpses of some good feet, but those feet aren't at a level of a Sturridge. Sturridge can almost steal time in the box. He's swift of mind, and he can be one step ahead of any defensive unit (sometimes, Sturridge has got so many ideas going on in his head while he's on the ball, that he's almost ahead of himself). Sturridge has eyes - Origi is more simplistic. Simplistic is great - put the ball in the net, debate it after etc, but he's not buying you time in that key area - the box. He may do... let's hope so. But it would be a foolish mistake to go into next season with Divock as one of your pair of strikers. That would be signing up for yet another year of 6th to 4th to me.
I'm all up for being proved wrong tho. Very up for that. Who knows, maybe he comes on against Stoke and glances in a header from a corner (which would be nice), slots in an early sidefoot opener v Dortmund and then 10 minutes later smashes it home from 20 yards.
He's not a clunky striker... but in comparison to Sturridge, there's a clunkyNESS to his game. The joys of language.
Very happy to see him start, very happy to have him as an option on the bench.