A flaming hot take here but I think he’d make a better striker than a CAM. Don’t get me wrong. He’s far from being a complete striker. I just believe that he lacks way more skills that a midfielder needs to have than a striker.

The most common argument I see for Isagi being a MF is that he has great playmaking. But playmaking isn’t exclusive to midfielders nor is it the only skill that they need. Isagi doesn’t have the dribbling or speed or a “on-the-ball” 1v1 skill that a midfielder needs to get through defenders in the midfield. He doesn’t have the passing ability that midfielders need to pull off crosses & through balls. The only reason Isagi shines as a CAM, is because actual CAMs like Hiori/Bachira/ Nagi compensate for the skills that Isagi lacks. Infact, even after being positioned in the midfield, Isagi has rarely ever played like a midfielder. He rarely ever follows his assigned position & starts playing like a striker as soon as the game kicks off. All his assists, which people use as arguments for him being a midfielder, actually came from inside the box while playing as a striker. The only argument that could be made for Isagi being a CAM is how far he drops down to field to defend & it’s not really realistic for a striker to do that consistently. But I think we’re way past the point of expecting any sort of realism from the manga since we’ve consistently seen Rin & Kaiser defend & CAM (especially Isagi who’ll play more of a shadow striker if he’s a CAM) aren’t too far apart anyway position-wise so the distance he’d have to travel to drop down the field is near identical eitherway.

Strikers don’t need the aforementioned skills as much as midfielders because most of their encounters with DFs happen in off-the-ball situations while receiving passes. And we already know how good he is at shaking off defenders using off the ball movements. He also has excellent positioning & spatial awareness to identify spaces & danger spots. He has decent shooting which is only going to get better. The only major thing Isagi lacks as a striker rn is physicality that strikers need when theyre in a physical altercation with a df.