Ugh..
Pjanic hires an agent that can facilitate a transfer ie. Pjanic wants to leave.
I would be sad to see our best midfielder go but if he does go I think it would facilitate another big name midfielder coming to replace him. And since we have so much offensive talent in the wing positions we dont depend on creative center mids like pirlo and pjanic as much as we did. We could play Can or Betancur as a more defensive option and buy a physical box to box player like Pogba to join the attack while moving most of our creativity up the flanks.
If we buy a midfielder I would want either: Pogba, Kante, SMS or Alcantara. All of them are different but all of them would give us something we can use and adapt into the team
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Why talk about getting rod of him when we dont have a good option to impove us. The one player I would love is Kante. Move Pjanic higher and be able to dominate more attacks without losing defensively. We should be looking to help Pjanic out not to trade him in. I hope he would not want to move out
If we got Kante I think it would allow us to play with 2 center mids and dominate instead of getting over run like we do against big teams with 2 CM.
It would be the perfect signing to use the 4231. If we sign a more creative midfielder I think Can or Bentancur can take the defensive holding mid role and the offensive player can connect with the attack.
------Ronaldo
Costa---Dybala--Cuadrado
------Kante----Can------
That would actually be amazing and we would be so much improved in midfield protection with playing that formation instead of Khedira and Pjanic. The creativity lost in pjanic would be made up for by having all those creative talents on the field and the Kante -- Can duo would just play simple passes while focusing on protection