I don’t get the ‘its time we split our top three’ thingy, as modern footballers go, all three are in their pomp, it’s not as if all of a sudden their all past it, modern players these days are conditioned to last into their early 30’s, prime example being Milly, he’s looked after himself over the years and his holding his own at 35, not saying our three will last as long but their definitely not at the point where the exit door is looming,
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, but we can alter it and this what I’d rather we do, for example, I’d drop Bobby back as a proper in the hole player in behind Mo Mane & Jota, in certain situations, it won’t always be viable so rotation will be key depending on opposition,
I would retain Fabinho & Henderson as the Steel but again can be tweaked depending on who we are playing, the system in itself will also need tweaking with the option of having a plan ‘B’ as well as a plan ‘C’,
At the moment in particular this season we’ve been one dimensional and the bus parkers have taken advantage as we have all sadly witnessed, next season we need to have the ability to change the way we attack, or defend at the drop of a hat without too much disruption, defensively wise it won’t happen very often because of how we press, but going the other way when we encounter your Allardyce type national express fuckwits we need to find a way through the double deckers ,
So say for example we started..... Alisson, Trent, Gomez, Virgil, Robbo, Fabinho Hendo, Thiago, Mo, Bobby Mane, in a 4-3-3, we could convert that into this... Alisson, Gomez, Virgil, Kabak, Hendo, Thiago Fabinho Jota, Mo Bobby Mane, in a 3-4-3,
Yes controversially we drop Trent & Robbo, bring on Kabak, but the incessant crossing into a box full of 6ft + defenders isn’t working, so we go three at the back, four across the middle and the three amigos up top, but, we have Thiago, Bobby & Jota supplying Mane & Mo , with plenty of interaction between them creating havoc & panic in equal measure,
They are offering nothing going forward and are happy with ten behind the ball, if they did decide to counter, Hendo can drop back and help Fabinho,
Hopefully in the summer we can have a clear out, for me the leavers should be , Origi, Shaq, Ox, Grujic, Matip, Woodburn, Wilson, that’s seven that in all honesty we could find better relatively cheaply, three of those don’t feature at all and the others only fleetingly or are injury prone,
With the covid sh*t I honestly can’t see us spending the millions some expect, but it’s possible we could find only what we need that can carry us through next season and at the Same time the coffers will swell going into the following season and where we would probably need to expand our spending.
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