jayramfootball wrote:Midfield is one area badly needing top class players to support Ozil. We have a groupd of players not good enough or at the youth team, reserve level still trying to learn.
FBs are another big concern. Saka - no, Tierney - no (on evidence so far he's our worst defensive FB), Bellerin - NO NO NO, AMN - no, Kolasinac - no,
We have no good FB's
Central Defence - not going to list them - NONE of them are good enough.
Wingers - we have no good wingers.
"top class players to support Ozil" we've spent 500m trying to support Ozil he still only turns up three or four times a year ... we need him gone.
What we need is a defensive midfield player who can play alongside Guendouzi and Torreira neither of whom are bad players but when playing against three attacking opposition players, and having no help at all today from Ozil and Nelson, are always going to get beaten ... fix that problem and you take a huge amount of pressure off the defence ...
The whole set up is ridiculously top heavy Auba - Laca - Ozil - Nelson that's four players who today wouldn't or couldn't defend you simply can't carry four players against even an average EPL side, let alone a decent one. Auba stuck it in the net, but apart from party tricks what did the other three bring today?
Back to basics 4-3-3-1 if that means replacing two from Laca - Ozil - Auba with midfield players who are capable of defending then get it done. All teams now know that they can overload our defensive midfield, our games will not get any easier. Off course we don't have those players in the squad - Xhaka but he's seemingly going - so that means two >50m signings ... and that still leaves us with poor defenders, but first thing first the midfield is where games are won and lost ours is shite.