dorsetway wrote:I honestly don't understand these days how proper "wingers" fit into any Prem team.? These days your midfielders all have to work their hearts out, up and back, controlling midfield, so as soon as you include a Deulefeu type wide in a 442 then you create a weakness in midfield. Top 6 clubs have wide men that run up and back all game, but for us GD can't do a midfield role, this is why he's never settled properly in any team. For me he can only ever be a front player but he's not a striker.
This is where Flores needs to find a style of play and then play the best 11 for that style and formation. Hand on heart GD won't ever fully fit our needs, will sulk etc, and I forecast will leave within 12 months.
Anyway Flores has three key targets.... Tighten up defence and get FBs defending properly, re-energise the midfield, and find a forward combination that can put fear in oppo defences. (a la Deeney / ighalo) then he needs to get Sarr and Welbeck more in loved plus freshen up midfield.
There's the challenge.....
If it were me I start with making 2 lists:
List 1: My best technical players
List 2: My best players in terms of work rate and commitment to defending.
Anyone on both lists becomes a starter as long at there are no more than 3 at any one spot. Build a formation based on what that core can and can't do. Then sort it out over a few weeks of watching them in training and looking at film.
