parklane1
Tony Galvin
What about keeping the current system but signing an upgrade on Mason and Bentaleb?
As long as the new player has a better understanding at the defensive part of a CM players game that would be fine.
What about keeping the current system but signing an upgrade on Mason and Bentaleb?
Can anyone name a better central midfielder who we can get who has the positive attacking attributes and energy of Mason and Bentelab but with the defensive balance?
Bender doesn't have the attacking side but has the defensive side and plays it relatively simple so could be effective
We have been linked with James mccarthy but I personally think of him as a clogger and stopper at best
I'd be interested in other options?
I can name two great sides that don't have an enforcer and their Barca and Madrid... They are. Great technical players who work in the pronciple of scoring more (Madrid) or actually working as a defensive unit and still scoring more (Barca)
Who is city's enforcer?
Ar5ena1 don't have one either IMO
I actually think most teams now know that the better you are the least likely a side is you to attack you so you can have hard working better technical players in those roles as the enforcer side isn't really needed
Erisken for example took Matic out if the game at WHL last year just by using his football brain. He ran he everywhere so he wasn't effective and Fabregas offered less cover than any player on the pitch
The best pairing I've seen was Viera and Petit and both had a good defensive brain but above that were technically excellent with the ball and award of their surroundings. That's what's we should aim for with our central midfield pair
What about keeping the current system but signing an upgrade on Mason and Bentaleb?
Wrong and I have tried in various threads to explain this before, what I want to see ( and others have said the same) is a CM player who can read the game better when we do not have the ball. We need a player who is aware of runners getting in behind our CM, we need players who can track these runners. Neither Bentaleb or Mason do this and there is a lot of ball watching goes on. Now Bentaleb is only 20 so there is a very good chance he will add this to his game, not sure that at 24 Mason will ( but I hope he proves me wrong)
I have never said I want a CM to just sit on the half way line and be a holder, sitting player, or whatever you want to call him, and again I have said this before and a lot of posters have agreed. There seems to be a lot of fans who want to put players into certain boxes and call them whatever, when what we need is a CM player who has the ability to read the defensive side of the game.
Can anyone name a better central midfielder who we can get who has the positive attacking attributes and energy of Mason and Bentelab but with the defensive balance?
Bender doesn't have the attacking side but has the defensive side and plays it relatively simple so could be effective
We have been linked with James mccarthy but I personally think of him as a clogger and stopper at best
I'd be interested in other options?
That would work. I just don't think that Mason is the answer going forward. I was wrong about Rose so I could be wrong about Mason, but I struggle to see what he excels at and we are too open due to protection not being provided by the pair of Mason and Bentaleb. If we play the majority of the season with the two of them, 5th is going to be a struggle IMO.
That would work. I just don't think that Mason is the answer going forward. I was wrong about Rose so I could be wrong about Mason, but I struggle to see what he excels at and we are too open due to protection not being provided by the pair of Mason and Bentaleb. If we play the majority of the season with the two of them, 5th is going to be a struggle IMO.
Mason's got an excellent eye for a quick, incisive pass and a great engine. If he can add a bit more positional awareness to his game, then he could be a really good player.
Agree he's got a good engine, not sure about the rest.
Agree, he needs upgrading otherwise we will have the same problems.
Looks increasingly like we wont be upgrading mate. If we do get a midfielder in then I'm starting to think it will be another unknown quantity.
This transfer window is starting to become very worrying - much like the last 10 windows that we have had to endure.... frankly shocking
I think Mason's passing is poor. IMO his main attribute is his tackling and long range shootingMason's got an excellent eye for a quick, incisive pass and a great engine. If he can add a bit more positional awareness to his game, then he could be a really good player.
I think Mason's passing is poor. IMO his main attribute is his tackling and long range shooting
I have to say while LCLC may have exaggerated we have hardly covered ourselves in glory in recent transfer windows.Rubbish.
For me he lacks the passing finesse of either Eriksen or bentaleb (occasional brain fart aside). It appears to me, his long balls and riskier passing repeatedly fail to come off and when he loses the ball he fails to get back into position fast enough.In what way do you think it is poor?
I have to say while LCLC may have exaggerated we have hardly covered ourselves in glory in recent transfer windows.