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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 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.
 
What would your XI be in the 4-3-3 now and in future?

Right now, assuming we are shipping KWP off on loan to Palace I'd go something like:

GK

Aurier--------Sanchez-------TA/JV---------Rose/Davies

Ndombele---------Skipp----------Lo Celso/Winks

Son/Lamela------------Kane (Alli)------------Sessegnon/Moura


In the summer (or sooner) I would add a couple of midfielders. We desperately need a 6, one that could play some football would be a bonus. Camavinga (17yo Rennes) would be my dream signing, but there are others around. And I think we need another CM/6/8 hybrid who can play in a CM3 or CM2 if we want to play that.

I spent Christmas watching as many whole or extended games of Eze's as I could find. I was bloody impressed, I really hope we can do this deal, he's exactly the type of player we need, really good combination of physique and skill set. Because he's a powerful lad, when he dribbles, he's hard to knock off. But he also produces, gets his head up. Liked him a lot.

As I said last week, I think we need two LB's and at least one Rb depending on what happens with KWP and Aurier (and Hinds and Cirkin I guess ?)

I just wonder if players like Camavinga and Eze are going to appeal to Mourinho?
 
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