A right wing Martinelli is definitely a good idea, we need someone who just drives and drives at the opposition relentlessly there as an alternative to Saka. Nelson is becoming this type of player, but he's not as good as a right winger.
Their financial situation has improved since the summer but if they want to sign players in January, they’ll probably have to sell someone. Neto could be the guy.
I was saying in the Toney thread that it would allow us to do something creative tactically where we used Neto at RW, Martinelli at LW and Saka as the LCM. We'd have 2 lightning quick outlets that you have to stretch the pitch to defend and then both Saka and Ødegaard picking the ball up centrally with more space because of the fear that sort of pace puts into the back line.
Our depth would be insane with Toney and Neto but we have to be realistic arteta rarely rotate his front 4 unless these injuries Toney might come here tho but Neto cant see it if he just promised very limited game time.
Well I was thinking Neto rather than Toney, not both. The idea behind Saka at LCM is that instead of him spending a lot of the match away from goal, stretching the field, you get him more touches centrally near the goal where he can get more shots and passes in dangerous areas. I agree, RW is his best position, I'm just talking about giving us a totally different way of attacking that would make it really difficult for teams to mark us. Right now you can usually leave the LCM loosely marked or unmarked and focus on stopping Saka and Martinelli. It would be harder to do that if you put Saka there and you have truly rapid players on both wings.
That’s not sustainable. If we actually bought Neto both ESR and Nelson would had to move on. And Saka/Neto is as dumb as Saka/Diaby was in the summer. You can easily use Nelson on the right to alternate with saka
This isn't the worst idea in the world actually, and I think Saka has a ton of potential as an 8, at least when he starts to wind down as a winger. I'm not sure that time is now - we might have been better served just signing an LCM who's better at ball-carrying (ESR I guess but reliable?).
Agreed. I'm not thinking about it as like a regular thing just something we could roll out to force the opponent off of their defensive gameplan while still mostly playing to the strengths of all involved. I still think Saka should primarily play RW and I agree, a better ball carrier at the left 8, particularly in matches where we expect to have control of the midfield would be ideal.
Dunno if he's an upgrade on arguably our best finisher and most direct attacker.
Delivering to who? Martinelli and Saka are supposed to be our main goal getters. Unless he adds a lot more goals to his game his delivery ain’t gonna help us
Who though nketiah and Jesus? We have enough wide players. Spend the money on striker. You have saka, Martinelli, trossard, Nelson and esr here. Neto is just not needed. We need a consistent top level striker.
I think we should look at Trossard as our main backup to Jesus, personally. He was excellent in the role last season when Jesus was out. So I'd basically replace Nketiah with Neto, make Martinelli and Nelson our LWs, Saka and Neto our RWs, and Jesus and Trossard our CFs. This was what I thought we should do in the summer, only I was thinking Diaby instead of Neto.
He was excellent with his 1 goal. You not gonna win a league with Jesus, Nketiah and Trossard as your strikers. We scored 4 and neither of our strikers scored. Our obsession with filling the team with attacking midfielders is just weird. You also have nwaneri coming through.
