AbouCuéllar
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I wouldn't read too much into those comments, it was probably into a response about the balance of the team and the lack of a creative midfielder. He made very clear how he saw Dani (and he's right to see him that way, it's the same way Zidane and Madrid saw him) when he was earlier on the job, and how he's used him obviously reinforces that.
Interesting. Makes it seems like a midfield 3 of Xhaka, Ceballos and Partey is almost a certainty if we manage to get it done.
I sure hope not. That would be a terribly sterile midfield. It's one thing to play a midfield like this if you have ultra creative wing types, say a Bernardo Silva or Hazard or even Pulisic, or Özil how he was used often under Mourinho. We have dribbling/scoring wingers whose creativity is their biggest weakness (Pepe, Aubameyang).