You really double downing on that post?
And not only just that post, for a decade now i am against on spending each and every year most of our budget on more DMs and SSs and never buy new wingbacks, CAMs and finishers.
With CR7 and Morata, we dont have to worry about finishers atm, but next year we will.
However, ever since Vidal and Pogbs were sold, we lost all creativity in our central midfield and the link between midfield line with the forwards is not there.
We just defend and try to bite on counterattacks from the flanks, with quick wingers or long lobs. We dont have an attacking plan and our wingers mostly relied on Cuads strodes, this can only go that far in CL, against higher competition. They just shut down Cuads and thats it. We ought to present a multidimensional front, that would include the center of our midfield.
That could come with a CAM, or a very creative or attacking CM like Pogbs.
We had Pjanic ad even at his prime, he never compensated for the lack of creativity upfront, hewas the link between defense and mid line, but still our offense was unlinked and could never outscore CL competitive teams.
We know that our budget is limited, we know that a new Arthur, mckennie, Rabbiot, Can, Locawhatever, will come at the expense of replacing cripple Ramsey and joker Berna with a starter CAM and our problem there will persist and so it did for more than freaking decade and still fail to fix it!!
So yes, untill we do, i stand by thar. For once in a decade, i would like to see our budget spend on a different spot, we have 6 DMs and only a half L B, cant even bare to comment on CAM...
And here we are again spending our entire budget on a new DM, like that was our main issue, or like that wasnt where we ve spent our budget earlier...
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Can we stop talking about a player who has no intentions of leaving his team?
It wasnt SMS vs Chiesa - It was Chiesa vs spending the money in another way.
Did we need a CM more than a winger? Yes, but we did need a winger as well.
Now we have Chiesa and Kulu who are both very young and very talented and they can play together.
Getting Chiesa equals to getting MDL - We needed to strengthen the position and both are prospects you should not skip on.
Now its time for a midfielder and Locatelli does seem like a smart purchase.
The only thing Im worried about is that we dont have a creative midfielder but the market just started so who knows..
The point is that if we dint get chiesa and got a CAM instead, we could field a different formation.
At any case, if we had a windback instead, cuads could play at his normal position, kulu could have more playing time there, maybe dybs too. We had options, but we never really had options for a CAM and many times we had to make huge compromises because we lacked wingbacks. This onky happened because we prioritised getting chiesa and sub kulu and dybs, over getting a starter CAM or a starter wingback with that cash.
That was my problem with chiesa then, as it is now with and new DM or SS we might get. I dont mind them coming as opportunity targets that might improve our team, i mind them coming at the expense of players we actually need more!!!
If each and every year for decades we spend all our budget on new DMs and SSs, some of them are bound to be better than the last ones. But if we dont buy any CAMs whatsover, we certainly wont see any improvement there!
We have Cristiano freaking Ronaldo, Morata too, they can be lethal scoring machines, what they lack is someone better than Berna and Ramsey to feed them the ball, instead of fixing that, improving like 2% over Benta, Bigmac, Arturito and Rabbiot with Loca is NOT a priority! And the problem is that he comes at the expense of that and this keep happening for a decade now!!
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