Our midfield this season has imo enough good players to do well, the problem however has been the lack of a presence in the middle of the park. Before we had the likes of Ballack, Essien, Makelele and Lampard at his peak. These are all players who could take a game by the scruff of its neck and dictate the tempo on their own.
Players such as Ramires, Meireles, Romeu and even Mikel are all more than decent players but I don't think any of them has that ability to impose themselves on other big teams' midfields and dominate them.
I think players of the quality of Modric or Schweinsteiger are needed to give us that extra edge in midfield. Unfortunately though, this means we'll have to pay big prices. What do you lot think?
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Presence in midfield
comment by Our Bald Manager > Yours (U1641)
posted on 7/1/12
TLLl has got it right, why I would prefer someone like Hamsik or Kroos or Vidal to Modric or Moutinho if we stay 433. We already have two deep lying playmakers at the club (Meireles and McEachran) but no box to box goalscoring midfielders
comment by ＴＬＬＬ (U4640)
posted on 7/1/12
Hamsik would be a fantastic signing but I can't see him leaving Napoli
comment by Blue_Mike (U4739)
posted on 7/1/12
Thank you Chronic, but I don't think any of us thought we'd get him before then anyway. And BK I would much prefer a 4-2-3-1 formation myself...
comment by Our Bald Manager > Yours (U1641)
posted on 7/1/12
Sorry we do have one box to box goalscoring midfielder of course in Lampard but he's on a slope as the say..
comment by Mr. Capello is-:? (U12414)
posted on 7/1/12
posted on 7/1/12
Actually Vidal is more of an Essien or Ramires kinda box to box midfielder who can play DM and his play is quite different from the likes of Kroos and Hamsik(a rare breed of player these days)
comment by Our Bald Manager > Yours (U1641)
posted on 7/1/12
Hmm...but he did at Leverkusem he scored alot of goals and took alot of set-pieces, as well as getting assists so I've always seen him as a box-to-box type abit like Lampard. There's also Henriksen although he plays in Norway and I reckon de Bruyne would do a good job there
comment by Blue_Mike (U4739)
posted on 7/1/12
De Bruyne would do a job anywhere in the 3 of a 4-2-3-1 imo. Don't know much about Henriksen tbh, how old is he?
posted on 7/1/12
haven't heard much about Henriksen. Will probably do a bit of research now you mentioned him. De Bruyne's arrival will hopefully mean a switch to 4-2-3-1 which I feel suits this team best. Hopefully, Hazard or Neymar or even Lucas M would join in the Summer
TBK,
With Swansea already loaning Sigurdsson, do you feel a loan for Josh there would be a good move for him considering Britton and Allen's perfomances as well as Gylifi's(spelling presence). I'm beginning to lean more towards somewhere like Bolton, West Brom or Villa. In these places, he'd also be far from Sinclair(who I feel might turn his head negatively about Chelsea)
posted on 7/1/12
*Gylifi's(spelling) presence.
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