Lets not go into 41212 other creative formation to suit one single purchase
Gourcouff has not been excellent in ligue 1 lately (even Blanc has admitted that he has not replicated the form, from the beginning of the season) Don't kill me if im wrong, I haven't seen the matches just read about them. He does get credit from scoring important cl goals though.
We need to buy to suit the formation our new coach wants to play. Not the reverse, on a player flopping in the seria a once.
What is the point in buying Gourcouf and then play Diego out of position, instead of buying a winger and play everybody in position. You can argue Diego for Gourcouff. Thats fine, I just think we're going to kick ourselves for doing that.
I argue Di Maria all the time. Then we'd have Di Maria, Gio for the left Diego, Candreva, Camo and Gio for Center and Camo, Candreva for the right. Gio would be used bc of rotation an injuries and everbody will play their favourite position.
It like this summer, we needed D'ago but bought Melo, now we need width, so we should not buy another treqaurtista.