Sounds familiar.
Like that one player we signed from Bayern, who did just that, playing for by far the biggest team in the league and only scoring against meh teams.
It took Dybala one game against Barca to surpass said players record against big teams in europe.
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The irony.
The Costa who was the best offensive player on the field against every big club we faced after newyear ? Who was a driving force in getting the ball forward into dangerous positions, created penalty situations and made the difference all the time ? And kept improving and improving.
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I'm against selling our best assets, but you probably got that from my stance on Dybala. So why are you asking all the silly questions? Keep on hating
If we had unlimited cash, id just force the team to find a way to make the team work so great, we dont "need" dybala to do anything other then "disappear" and appear to score crucial goals.
As in, we literally dont need him to go forward and make the play.
Think of having an extremely solid mid 2, costa and a partner in crime at the other side and sandro and someone else overlapping.
Like, we literally can just attack and attack and dont need dybala to be a neccecary link. So we have higuain drawing defenders, the wings making all kinds of dangershit, and dybala just doing one thing, and one thing along :
Moving in channels and ask the ball in interesting positions. Link a link in counterattack, or offence
Currently we are crep alot of the time cause he's not there and we miss a link in the center.
My take is, we cant afford this. So we are better off selling dybala and getting replacements
One of the best games we played was Barca 3-0 with Dybala playing trequartista in 4231. He wasn't inconsistent last season, just understandably scored a little less than previous year when he played farther forward. Don't understand why you'd have a problem with keeping Dybala if we play 4231.
The lopsided, unbalanced 433 was an eyesore with LB, Matuidi trying to provide width on the left and Dybala caught in limbo, but now, in theory, should be better with Dybala at RAM and Cuadra at RB.
Yeah. well you're right. We could see how this 433 works. But we really really really need to get a new CM for it
Cuads+sandro with dybala more central (cuads overlapping more, sandro deeper, and costa having freedom to go forward. Could work. seems to.
.... Matuidi and Pjanic ? Fine. Khedira ? No, we need to improve.
Perhaps just keep all players and get Modric on a free