Ricardinho
La Liga Correspondent
The hometown boy done good
He's due to report to Colney on July 30.When is he due to join up with the squad again?
Interesting, so he played as the central (deepest) midfielder in a 4312/41212 for both Sampdoria and Uruguay.
Also that at PSG Emery had a central defensive midfielder (Motta) while the left sided of the three midfielders stayed back (Verratti?) and the right sided was allowed to bomb on.
A combination of these would probably suit the players we have pretty well (although does leave out Mkhi).
Having said that to the best of my knowledge Emery only plays 433/4231 so, to quote Del Trotter, it's all epidemic.
Yep, I've been thinking about this formation since Torreira arrived. But as you say, it leaves out Mkhi. It's sort of a tug of war between our best attack, which would include Mkhi, and our best midfield, which sees one of the four big attackers drop out.
Good to have options though. If Emery finds that the midfield can function with a combination of just two of them, then he can unleash all four attackers. If he finds the team as a whole needs the three midfielders then whichever three attackers do play, you know there's quality on the pitch and on the bench.
All this would be thrown up into the air of course if the club were to buy a starting winger. That would altar the tactics quite significantly.
Absolutely, I think the squad needs a winger regardless, if the reports are true about a fast, direct winger then that's really encouraging, we are finally looking to address the numerous deficiencies in the squad.
A player like Coman, Zaha, Douglas Costa (I know we're not getting him btw) who can carry the ball at speed makes such a difference, look at the impact Sane has made.
Part of the problem is that Özil and Ramsey are both luxuries in a sense, Özil needs people to work for him and Ramsey needs people to cover the spaces he leaves behind him when he runs forward (i.e alot).
It's very difficult to accomodate both into a solid, consistant unit, Kante would have been a big help, can't believe we didn't pay £20m ffs.
Everyone who runs forward need people to cover the spaces though, it's nothing to do with Ramsey personally.
Who is going to cover for ramsey?They do and Ramsey's runs are his strength, it's just the regularity with which he runs forward makes it difficult for us to control the midfield.
Think Gabriel and Mustafi > Sokratis. Some people are in for a shock with this guy. Honestly the more I look at our signings, the more underwhelming it looks. Barring Torreira and Guendouzi, the rest are just meh.Sokratis and Lichtsteiner are same level signings as Gabriel, Mustafi and Debuchy.
Issue is of course our transfer funds and we will always be left wanting while we dont show ambition regarding that.
My biggest hope is that those average players we signed and are still signing now even with Wenger gone can improve with more modern tactics under Emery.
He wouldn't even have this much in a window in the first place. Nobody has said that the players we got are world class but please at least wait until the season startstarts before you start going off. Jeez.Think Gabriel and Mustafi > Sokratis. Some people are in for a shock with this guy. Honestly the more I look at our signings, the more underwhelming it looks. Barring Torreira and Guendouzi, the rest are just meh.
Wenger would've been crucified if he had such a window.