Regulus Arcturus Black
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You seem to be confusing a second striker with an attacking midfielder. Neither of Cantona, Rooney or Sheringham were attacking midfielders. They were centre forwards or second strikers, but were versatile enough to play various attacking roles like most football players have to do on occasion. So yeah, all of our success has been without an attacking midfielder. Why are you talking about two forwards in Cole and Yorke? If anything, you're just proving my point by showing that our goals and assists came from our forwards, and not an attacking midfielder.
You're missing the point here. This is not about what formation we've had most success with, or how good certain players were. We have never relied on an attacking midfielder to be the catalyst in our attack during our successful periods. It has always been the forwards. Cantona, Rooney, Sheringham, Solskjaer, Yorke, Cole, Ronaldo, Tevez, Berbatov, van Nistelrooy, van Persie. They're forwards or attackers, not attacking midfielders. Now and historically, most successful teams have unsurprisingly relied on their forward line for their offensive output.
No, you’re missing the point.
In every tradition and every period of success, we had played with two forwards and two wingers. 4 players have been responsible for goals and creativity.
You’re suddenly now arguing the point that we don’t need Bruno or an AM because traditionally we’ve never relied on goals/creativity from midfield; but that’s because we’ve always had 2 wingers and a second striker, you’re now saying you wouldn’t have the second striker and you would even take away our attacking midfielder and thus leave us for the first time in our history we’re relying on just 3 players for goals / creativity.
You’re even more bizarrely using history/traditions to prove this can work, when we’ve never ever fecking done it in our history. We’re in our most conservative period now, turning that traditional Rooney/Cantona second striker into an AM, feck knows how shite we’d be if we went even more conservative and went with a 3 man midfield.
If we’re gonna be changing our style and moving in a Barca esque system with:
DM
No. 8. No. 8
Wing Forward. Wing Forward
Striker
Then make no mistake, this will be the first time in our history we’ve done it successfully, so we certainly can’t look into the past.
For it to work, we’ll need 2 incredible number 8’s, 2 exceptional and productive wingers, and a prolific striker. It’ll be a complete new squad and a system we’ve never been successful with.
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