Fowler_E7 » Wed May 09, 2012 12:48 pm wrote:stmichael » Wed May 09, 2012 11:35 am wrote:going forward if we play 4-2-3-1 i'd like to see henderson and lucas as the two defensive players, with gerrard on the right and suarez on the left of andy carroll/new striker in a front three. we really need a decent attacking midfielder though. shelvey has promise but he's not ready to be a regular yet.
Why move our best two players out of there natural positions to accomodate inferior players? Suarez and Carroll seem to be on each others wavelength now, so i wouldnt mind seeing them paired together for a while, but 4-4-2 isnt workable in every match so a solution would be required. We still desperatly need a right winger and a central midfield playmaker as our midfield is severly lacking at the moment.
what is suarez's "natural position"? he's that good a player he doesn't really have one. probably as an orthodox number 10 ideally but we don't really play with one. he plays wide in a front three for uruguay.
we've had enough of gerrard dictating where he plays down the years. he's not been a central midfielder for years now whatever he might tell you. if wembley wasn't evidence of this i don't know what was. he'd be devastating on the right of a three though. best crosser of the ball we have and a genuine goal threat. he needs to be as close to suarez as possible.
as you said if we want to play 4-4-2 we need a right winger and we haven't had a proper one since pennent. as for the playmaker role, i've already said i'd go for sigurdsson. he's a class above anything we have.
