GDeep™
League is very weak
Not a Kroos fan, but he's levels above most of our options who are better suited to be on some building site in Qatar helping with the stadiums for the WC.
I can't see why Madrid would be looking to sell though?
Kroos*Perhaps Wilshere could do it if he proves his fitness. Of course Coquelin could play in there too.
Ramsey---------Elneny*
Özil New CF Alexis
Kroos*Perhaps Wilshere could do it if he proves his fitness. Of course Coquelin could play in there too.
Ramsey---------Elneny*
Özil New CF Alexis
Myth.We don't need another midfielder who's defensively inept
Myth.
I've pulled up several games of his, and he is far from "inept" defensively.
Vs. Malaga: 4 tackles, 1 interception, 1 clearance, 68/70 passes completed.
Vs. Roma: 3 tackles, 1 interception, 106/110 passes completed.
Vs. Athletic: 2 tackles, 4 interceptions, 1 clearance, 68/75 passes completed.
Vs. Real Betis: 3 tackles, 1 interception, 82/87 passes completed.
We need to also add proper defenders to this team, 2 Midfielders.
We aren't going to win big trophies with rambo/Santi and coq as our midfield 3.
Thats the cold hard truth,
If the likes of J.Evans, Young, Valencia, Cleverly, O'Shea, Fletcher, Demichelis, Garcia and Navas can feature in a lot of matches for title winning sides then sure as hell so can players the quality of Cazorla and Coquelin are good enough. Just look at Leicester at the moment with a defence that has Wes Morgan and of people Danny Simpson FFS (probably the worst RB in the league after Naughton).
I have watched games, but you have me all wrong. I don't want him to be a defensive midfielder like Casemiro is, I want to sign him to have a prime passing midfielder, comfortable on the ball, which covers all the bases one of our other midfielders can't, in this case Coquelin.Forget the stats here, watch any game of Real Madrid's and you'll see it gets overrun when he plays deepest. If we're looking at stats, then fine. I'll use them to prove my point.
Compare him to Casemiro, another midfielder in the same team. One's played 25 times, the other 16.
Interceptions
Kroos: 35
Casemiro: 26
Tackles won
Kroos: 41
Casemiro: 34
Aerial duels
Kroos: 45%
Casemiro: 64%
Tackles lost
Kroos: 70
Casemiro: 40
Blocks
Kroos: 1
Casemiro: 7
All against a squad player who's fairly average... That's pretty inept, even if you believe stats. Watch any game of his and you'll see what I'm on about.