Pogba in place of Marchisio at the AM position.
altho i dont really like the idea of playing jojo outwide.he's a proper #10 in my eyes and thats whr we can get the most out of him.
also i'd never play pirlo in 2 man mf esp in big games.
I think that if Jojo plays wide he will have more creative freedom, like Reus to put an example. But if we want to play 4-2-3-1 we need more than just him. I think that something like this could happen
Jovetic 13M+Quagliarella
Di María 15M (if that bs is true)
Coentrao 18M
And, for the AM spot I can't think of any player, Hernanes is somehow out of range. And there are not many AM in the market. We should give De Bruyne a shot, I think that Chelsea got him for 8M, and they're not going to use him anytime soon IMO. We could maybe get him. And I rate him highly and we were linked with him before Chelsea got him. Maybe 10M? That would be sweet.
That's a mercato of 56M+Quag. So, yeah. Not very likely.
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We would need a couple new players, i'll give you that. But we can work something out with what we have TBH. We could try to play Asamoah as a LB, or even Peluso would work fine in a 4-men defense. In the 11-12 season Vucinic could fit the RW role, for some reason he's gotten slower and lazier this season. There's Giovinco as backup or even Pepe. So yeah, basically a decent RW + CAM and we would be good to go. Given that we will sell a couple of players, we should have enough money to find decent players for those roles.
I've always wanted to try Pirlo as a CAM using that formation, i can see him dictating the midfield and doing what he does best, trying those sweet passes to both wingers. Having Llorente as a poacher could make this work. We would need a RW who's decent at crosses though.
Peluso could work, he has improved a lot with us. But again, he's not an offensive LB. I'm kind of insistent with this thing cause most of the teams that we aspire to look like have an offensive RB/LB and a deffensive one. We're perfect with the deffensive on Lichtsteiner, but on the left side we don't have anyone, if Asamoah is not very good going forward as a LWB, now imagine him on the LB.
I wouldn't be ok with Vucinic on the RW cause there we would need one with a high workrate to balance the freedom of Jovetic on the left. He would be ok as a Jovetic backup. Pepe nor Giovinco have that WC tag that we search atm, both would be ok as backups, but not good enough to get that starting spot.
What I mean to tell is that we would need a whole lot more of additions to our team if we want to change to a 4-2-3-1, that team would be ok for a year I think. But don't expect any different results from what we've got this season, expect even worst.