That is true.
Anto - Looking for your vote, 24/7
No, that's not what it is about, it's all about the players. Yeah, I get way too engrossed with it but I can't stand seeing personal favourites being chucked around teamsheets with zero regard to what they were all about.
e.g.
Play Savi centrally as an AM? With Enzo and Kalle being capable of drifting out wide and alternating the scoring "burden"?
WHAT.THE.feck?
My suggestion is to get the best of Breitnigge...
.........Enzo......Kalle....
.........Savicevic..........
..Seedorf....Breitner.....
..............DM................
How does that get the best out of Breitnigge?
If you want the best out of Breitnigge you play Breitner as a box-to-box midfielder on the right, with Rummenigge as an inside/wide forward (sort of tucked in right forward, NOT a winger) AND you play a friggin' striker. Just look up teams where he was successful and you will clearly see what sort of striker to get, else Balu described them to a T earlier.
Enzo, same shit really, strikers made careers out of him making them look awesome. There's absolutely feck all Savicevic does there which these two can't do but, in turn, you are losing the ability to actually score goals, plenty of them.
Re: Verón. At this stage, with two CBs who aren't particularly great on the ball, he may as well play him, but with some caveats.
1) He would be best served having someone who can hold the fort and let the CMs bomb forward.
2) Steer clear of the notion that Verón "dictates play" in any way shape or form. It's unreal to try picture a side with Kalle and Enzo in them handing the reins to Verón and being at his playmaking mercy. You have two guys who can drop deep or run the show in the final third, drag desperate markers onto them and create the space to slice through a defence in a split second decision but no, the brain is swanning around behind the halfway line. Seriously?
The job in that pivot/DM/anchor role is simple
and limited to getting the ball out of defence and over to the ones who will make shit happen, while providing defensive stability/cover for the foraging CMs. Actually, Stielike would have been perfect. Has all Verón brings to the table and more. What he needs is someone who helps bring the ball out of defence and transition and I guess Verón can do that, not as effectively as someone like Stielike would (him being stuck in the heart of defending), but he sure can in a Carrick way. Conversely, Stielike is a credible "holder of the fort" when the other CMs bomb forward, which Verón isn't.
The point of this rant is not criticising VivaJ or his team, or his players, it is that hopefully we can better understand the players involved here. Way too often we go around saying X>Y and the point really is: "who are the stars? how do we get the best out of them? and therefore, what's the fecking job at hand?" and, in this case Stielike>Verón.
Viva will waltz past the first game anyway, but he still has time to consider the relevance of a striker over AM overload, and when reinforcements come he sure will have plenty of better options than Verón, so long as the job/role is properly defined.