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*thinks The Lying Rag's gone to Andy's head*
Too old, will cost wayyy too much & already failed once in the Premiership
that's before we contemplate the fact it'd mean repeating the mistake of last season & messing with a stable & successful formation. We need someone to stand in for Torres when needed, & give him a rest, not someone to play alongside him.
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I agree entirely, john. We were great with our current set up in the latter half of the season once we had Nando and gerrard fit together. 4231 should stay, with gerrard and Nando's partnership staying untouched.
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so because of gerrard/torres we shouldn't approach any top class strikers? marvelous.
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Ok. So we have a choice of buying a top class striker to play 442 and move Gerrard back to CM, as any top class striker will want to play pretty much every game, or sticking with the formation that has taken us to within a whisker of the league this season.
We play better with 4231 and with Gerrard in the AM role behind Nando. I think that much is obvious. We tried to piss about with the current set up and introduce another striker last summer. It didn't work. He now plays for Spurs. Partly because it just didn't work out, but also because the whole 442 experiment didn't work out as well as 4231.
Just buy some top notch winger and a back up for Torres. Oh, and leave Gerrard where he is.