@LaNRaY_SHeeRan We don't have a DLP in the first team. That's the issue.
Unless we want to promote and trust Pitarch.
Well, let's see what Jose has for us. I know he favours a 4231, but the team is what it is. He has his work cut out for him, won't lie.
The problem with this (and what will frustrate any player) is that the whole team isn't embracing pressing as a tactic. It's not structured. And you can see how funny Barca made the press look, running circles around CR. So, there's no way Vini won't get annoyed seeing that he's running around and Mbappe is chilling. Or Mbappe runs as a one-off and sees there's no second line of pressure from teammates and gets disinterested.
A midfield of Vitinha, Arda, Jude and Fede is perfect. Modern day football doesn't need fixed DMs. If Tchouameni wants to remain at the top, he needs to be more versatile - make quicker decisions and more accurate passes. Kroos was never fast but his first touch takes him out of a press immediately and he picks the right forward pass after.
You can't leave the left unsorted and focus on the right.
Also, trying to do something on the right makes the midfield unbalanced, assuming we leave the current crop of players as is.
Whatever formation we want to play, we need the right players. No more square pegs in round holes or we will still come back here to complain at the end of the season. There are decisions we need to make. They are tough and they need to be the right ones.
That midfield of Jude, Fede and Tchouameni will be disastrous.
I'm not against a 433 as long as we go with the right personnel. There isn't a good team in Europe without a DLP. It's a must for us if we want to conquer Europe again. That one addition will ensure a shakeup of the current team as we know it. And then we now add Olise on top of that.
Vini, Mbappe and Olise...I'd like to see how the new coach pulls that off.
I don't see that he's better than Fede and if he is at all, it won't be by much.
He's an all-action midfielder but what we need is a controller. Someone that sees the game in slo'-mo, is press resistant and can execute a pass in a raging storm.
We need Vitinha more than we need Neves.