WindyCOYS
I liked the 433 section, something a few of us would love to see.
With the exception of Alli, I think 433 suits the players we have better. We're a club with compromised individuals, and 433 would help mitigate some of that I think.
4231 requires specialists, two multi faceted CM's than are dynamic, tenacious and can both play a bit of football, two decent FB's, a "10" and a robust fulcrum 9. We don't have any CM's currently that are fully multifaceted enough for the double pivot. Alli produces "moments" of good stuff but is so fucking unreliable, and bumbles away about 60% of everything promising, none of our FB options are great. And Kane is fucked.
Lo Celso played almost entirely as an 8 or 6 in PSG's midfield 433 in 17/18, and still plays as an 8 for Argentina. He can definitely play there.
I don’t get why switching to a 433 means we need a more versatile and “footballing” 6, I think it’s the other way round, double pivots require more multifunctional cm’s (hybrid 6’s and 8’s) with the cm3 system, if you have decent 8's, and in Ndombele, Lo Celso, (with Winks, Sissoko, Eriksen, Alli as back ups) we have good 8 options, we can survive with a more limited 6 just doing a more disciplined job and feeding the 8's.
As
Bardi
and Nathan said, Alli is the player that loses out. But I'd like to see him used as a false 9, doing a kind of Firminho job, in a 433, especially now Kane is out.