Power n Glory wrote:DiamondGooner wrote:Pepe or Martinelli are not the strong CF type we need for this formation.
Pepe could play up front in a two or a three like Liverpool.
None of these players can play the lone CF role, you need a Lukaku, Vlahovic type for that.
Blame Arteta, he's the one who insists on playing this system.
I have serious doubts about us signing a new player before the window shuts. If we fail to sign this CF, we just need someone that can at least stick the ball in the back of the net even in this broken system.
The issue is though, the way this system is our CF is isolated, our wingers are out wide and the CAM doesn't come into the box leaving our lone CF on his own surrounded by 2 CB's.
That is why unless he's a sizeable 6'2 or taller, rugged guy like a Lukaku type then they won't be able to score or handle themselves.
What's Pepe or Martinelli going to do in that lone role in the box back to goal?
Arteta doesn't want to adjust, he wants to act like a cheque book manager so guess what, they better buy a Vlahovic or equivalent otherwise we're fked because he's shown now he's not capable of adjusting, he tried it with 3-4-3 and he was always pulling away from it, so we have to live with it now and the club needs to buy him what he needs.