Which signings from the past 10 years would've suited Amirom's system?

Skills said:
CB: Varane
CM: Fred
LAM: Di Maria
ST: Martial

Other players, I'd like :
13-16 Antonio Valencia
15-22 Luke Shaw
14-18 Chris Smalling
13-18 DDG
17-19 Rashford (the fast dynamic version, not necessarily the most productive version we had)

---------------------- De Gea
-----Smalling --- Varane ----- Martinez
--Valencia ------Ugarte --- Fred ------- Shaw
----------------Di Maria ------- Rashford
--------------------------Martial


Fred + Ugarte give you the legs you need in the middle of the pitch to press and harass teams through the middle. We've had better midfielders than Fred and Ugarte (Pogba, Bruno, Matic & Casemiro for 6 months, Herrera arguably) but I value high energy and pressing in the midfield two more than anything else for this set up. Kante for example was vital for Chelsea's teams that won the title under Conte and then the CL under Tuchel.

Martial, Rashford and Di Maria give you pace to break on teams. Bruno at his best was arguably our best attacker post 2013 but I value pace more.

Ideally I'd want a faster CB than Martinez for the LCB channel but a left footer is also important. There's a case to put Shaw there but there isn't a better LWB option, and Di Maria would be too vital to drop from the forward positions.

Smalling & Varane are probably the most comfortable defenders we've had defending against pace and both were very good in the air. That's important in this set up, especially with Martinez at LCB.
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Panther said:
Romero
Varane - Bailly - Blind
Di Maria - Herrera - Fred - Sancho
Pogba - Mata
Ibrahimovic
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Wing-backs are probably not the best choices defensively but shocked I'm the first person to say Mata.
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Mata came to mind also, but then the second 10 would be someone like Depay or Di Maria
 
Others have already said this, but Cavani has to be in the eleven. I would give a lot to have Cavani, even the one we got, in the team right now. Running and pressing machine, and he was still able to get goals consistently.
 
Panther said:
Romero
Varane - Bailly - Blind
Di Maria - Herrera - Fred - Sancho
Pogba - Mata
Ibrahimovic
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Wing-backs are probably not the best choices defensively but shocked I'm the first person to say Mata.
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Given what Amorim is doing to Rashford, Sancho and Pogba would have got a far more severe treatment and really don't think they'd mentally fit in. Varane would have fit into any team had he not stayed injury prone. Bailly, oh my!
 
Pogba, Martial, Lukaku possibly pre-bulk. And then obviously ADM who would have been unbelievable in this type of system with his versatility.

James as a wingback might have worked funny enough. Fred would have gotten a bunch of minutes. Varane.

Funny enough Sancho might have fit but knowing what we know now I'd never include him.
 
———————DdG—————-

—-darmian-Smalling-blind—

Valencia—Herrera-Matic—Kagawa

————-Pogba—mkhtiryan——-

——————Zlatan/cavani———-
 
Herrera more than any other
But also could see Dan James, Mata & Zlatan.
Think maybe also Smalling would be nice in such a system.
 
Zlatan and Di Maria spring to mind …also Pogba, though doubt he’d have lasted very long with Amorim.
 
Romero
Darmian - Varane - Blind
James - Fred/Matic - Herrera - Telles
Mata - Di Maria
Cavani
 
We've signed a lot of very talented players the last 10 years. You could easily build a much stronger starting 11 than what we can put out.
 
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