House MD
Active Member
That's the issue though isn't it? Mkhitaryan isn't really a number 10.
At Dortmund he was most effective playing out wide coming in with freedom and more importantly playing alongside other creative players, whereas Mourinho was attempting to use him as the sole creative force in the squad at times. Mkhi is very much a team player that thrives around players that are on the same kind of wavelength. United pretty much just rely on wingers or straight up power from midfield.
Sanchez is definitely more suited to United and Mkhitaryan is most definitely more suited to Arsenal so win win; especially now we've got PEA too.
He is someone who thrives with a free role in attack with licence to roam. That’s the role he had at united. The issue was he couldn’t really perform on a consistent basis. He didn’t have any assists after august.
We don’t really play with wingers with most of our width from full backs. Martial/Rashford who plays on the left or mata on the right generally comes in or like to come in. Mkhi (and now lingard/Sanchez) play behind lukaku in a free role.