You really don't in a 4-3-3 if your forwards score a lot, which ours do. Barcelona are the best example of a successful 4-3-3 and Xavi never got goals and assists. In this example, Skipp is Busquets, Winks is Xavi and Ndombele is Iniesta. Then we've got Kane, Son and Lucas as our Messi, Suarez and Neymar.
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Good point but do Kane, Sonny and Lucas have the quality to make stuff happen like the Barca boys do? That for me means we can't have a like for like with a lack of goals and assists from midfield. Either that or we badly need to invest in a higher quality of fullback.
I like Winks, I just see a gaping DM hole that could be plugged if we were to make the simply decision to drop him for Dier at this moment in time.
That's what we bought Ndombele for. He's going to have to step up at some point.
I dunno mate. I really like Winks I just have this nagging feeling he isn't good enough to rely on week in, week out if we want to continue being a top 4 club.
Time will tell. He has a wonderful little talent but is it enough for the levels a club like ours now requires? The same has to be said of others like Walker-Peters, Foyth, Sanchez etc. It's early days in all of their careers but I think all of them need to imporove or we end up building a squad geared for 6th rather than 4th. Just how I'm dissecting it as it goes along.
He's ok but nothing special.
Madison yesterday showed he is a cut above.
Madison yesterday showed he is a cut above.
They play in different positions.
By that comparison Lamela showed he was a cut above Schmeichel.
Sissoko could play that role IMO. Quick and physical. But I think Skipp has more of a innate skillset for it and has far better passing range.
He takes far too many touches before he passes it. He doesn't seem to have a picture in his head of where his team mates are before he controls the ball.
Think we may have over hyped Winks he's good and worth having in the squad but he's never going to be instrumental in a side with a serious chance in major comps.
It's easy to get carried away when it's one of your own, we as a fanbase got carried away with Tom Carroll to a lesser extent.
It's easy to get carried away when it's one of your own, we as a fanbase got carried away with Tom Carroll to a lesser extent.
No. Very poor reader of the game.
I think that this applies to far too much of our attacking prowess and play. Few too many of our boys take that extra touch and don't seem to know what their teammates are and should be doing without even taking a look. I think our lack of attacking intelligence and understanding of those around them leaves us with that constant hill to climb.
One touch football on the agenda in training, give and go, dummies, I'd like to see sharper minds instead of the whole the balls at my feet now, what are we going to do next stuff we see at the moment. I think you're right, Winksy needs to work on his distribution speed and his 360 awareness
You're right. I can just see him getting the ball taken off him because of the lack of reading of the game.
Everything you said is on the money but it hasn't happened in 5 years of Poch's management, and it never will. I think he is absolutely shite at coaching that side of the game.
You have an acquaintance nicknamed Sausage, don't you?
There would be conflagrations all over the place. He's a really reactive player, he anticipates nothing.
Mcginn isn't the answer he's a b minus player in a c level team.
Absolutely fucking not.
To be fair to Winks, he's never really been played as an 8 in a CM3 with a decent 6 sitting behind him. He actually ended the game Saturday as an 8 with Wanyama as the central 6, but it's too small a sample to judge. He did really well in the build up to the penalty at Arse, showed tenacity to win the ball then composure in the final third to pick out Son. There's evidence he has the tools to be a half decent 8 in the right set up, I just think we have two even better potential 8's in that system in Ndombele and Locelso and there's Skipp coming through with more potential too.
Unfortunately Fabinho is also a player with good vision and a decent passer of the ball so...
He can also press very effectively, tackles at a rate 4 times what Sissoko does a game, and has some footballing brain, so....