I'm praying this is just for pre season... this formation and Rooney/Depay up top together doesn't work for me. Depay is much better out wide in my opinion.
I think thats exactly why we have bought Depay. Said from day one he'd get games as a striker then ultimately end up there more and more over the years.
Depay will play from the left. Di Maria or Pedro from the right. Depays intelligence will define whether he learn a different way to play and be a striker. Even if he doesn't he is an actual wide goal scorer. Draxler doesn't fit any point, and you have to hope to convert him in one position...I'm praying this is just for pre season... this formation and Rooney/Depay up top together doesn't work for me. Depay is much better out wide in my opinion.
I'm sure that's what I said. In midfield he didn't play well and his performance improved once he was moved and played attacking role.
IMO playing for Barca is more than just being technically good.
Why do that with him, when you can do that with a player we already have? You spend 17m on a player who isn't ready for any of the roles?
I'm praying this is just for pre season... this formation and Rooney/Depay up top together doesn't work for me. Depay is much better out wide in my opinion.
Depay, at worst he is a genuine wide forward. At best he plays both roles. You're unhappy about losing Di Maria, but you then want a player who is going to offset that less than Pedro?What do you class as ready? No young player is the finished article that doesn't mean we shouldn't develop and adapt him into a position he could fulfil if he has all the attributes to. (Schweinsteiger is a prime example what LVG did to him).
Who's the player we already have? If we do why are we looking for a new striker. I assume you mean Wilson... he's good but Draxler wouldn't affect him too much if we sold Hernandez. Still need three strikers minimum.
What do you class as ready? No young player is the finished article that doesn't mean we shouldn't develop and adapt him into a position he could fulfil if he has all the attributes to. (Schweinsteiger is a prime example what LVG did to him).
Who's the player we already have? If we do why are we looking for a new striker. I assume you mean Wilson... he's good but Draxler wouldn't affect him too much if we sold Hernandez. Still need three strikers minimum.
Depay, at worst he is a genuine wide forward. At best he plays both roles. You're unhappy about losing Di Maria, but you then want a player who is going to offset that less than Pedro?
Well no, I said he did well when he played in Iniesta's role, as well as in the more offensive way he started being used later on. I would definitely make a distinct difference between attacker and midfielder in this context, especially when you talked about the latter being similar to how he played for Spain, which was as a false nine. It's not that Fabregas didn't play well in midfield in general, it was that he didn't play well in the midfield role that he was expected to fill, which was Xavi's.
tl;dr he played as the passer, the creator and the forward in a 4-3-3. He did well in the latter 2, the first of which is still definitely a midfield role.
The very first three weeks of the 2012-13 season were difficult for Cesc Fabregas as he was so unimpressive in all three games that he was subbed off early in the second half in each of them. He also didn't start either leg of the Supercopa de España, logging only ten minutes in the tie.
But then Cesc exploded. Over the next eight games teams struggled mightily to keep the Spaniard off the scoreboard as he tallied four goals and seven assists over that span. That was, of course, an unsustainable run, but Cesc remained in good form until about the New Year when his form plummeted. In the 2013 part of the season Cesc only featured on the score sheet in six games despite making 26 appearances. Interestingly, the drop of form coincided with a thigh injury Cesc picked up in December which sidelined him for two weeks.
When you round up the numbers of the entire campaign you would think that Cesc had an excellent season for a player that made the majority of his appearances at central midfielder, but it really was a tale of two seasons. While most of the scoring Cesc did came while playing as a false nine he was also quite effective when playing in Andres Iniesta's usual midfield position next to Xavi. There was a drop-off in team fluidity from Iniesta to Cesc, but when Fabregas was in good form it was barely noticeable.
Who said anything about changing his role. You allow him to play 2 positions if he is capable. Draxler isn't capable of either. And if you want to develop a young talent project we have one in Januzaj. That's mental to pay 17m for Draxler because he is a hot name.I don't see why we're changing Depay's role what worked so well for him last season at PSV.... to convert him to a striker to me doesn't make any sense considering we need him more there anyway. Our only alternative option is Young, unless Di Maria stays he could potentially play there.
Like I said, I would buy Draxler to develop him as a striker, not for out wide, in my view Depay is the man we bought for that to compete for place with Young. I didn't think we'd be buying Pedro because we're that set on making Depay a striker.
Like I said, I would buy Draxler to develop him as a striker, not for out wide, in my view Depay is the man we bought for that to compete for place with Young. I didn't think we'd be buying Pedro because we're that set on making Depay a striker.
Who said anything about changing his role. You allow him to play 2 positions if he is capable. Draxler isn't capable of either. And if you want to develop a young talent project we have one in Januzaj. That's mental to pay 17m for Draxler because he is a hot name.
Something he mentioned a few months back. He's also bulked up a little. Still a work in progressLVG wants to covert Januzaj into a striker? News to me.
LVG wants to covert Januzaj into a striker? News to me.
This is also my point about developing our own youth and the choices we make. Why go and buy Draxler, and then have to give him enough game time to actually develop him, when we can use a younger player that we already have and use that game time to develop them? If we got Draxler, who's game time would be sacrificed to allow him to play just because we have paid £17m for him, because he's got an opportunity in another team and looks half decent? Januzaj's? Wilson's? Pereira's?
LVG wants to covert Januzaj into a striker? News to me.
I don't understand why Zzeezzy has a hard on for Draxler. We'd be signing a player that plays the roles we have an abundance for. If LVG was in the mood to train a wide player into a striker, Depay would be the better choice. Depay is fast, Intelligent, Can dribble, proven goal scorer, and is build like a brick. It's like Rooney v2.
Buying Draxler doesn't make sense if LVG is going to convert a wide player into an attacker.