Who would you bench though? The front three are all pretty good, we should be looking at signing a player who is a step up on our defensive options.
I would be looking at someone who is a step up from Ridenton in CM.
The Stuff article says we are looking at 2 areas to strengthen & need to decide which to use it on. Imo that is a wide forward & a central midfielder.
Sign a wide striker, we get another goal scoring option and have WeeMac/Ridenton/Rufer cover midfield with Watto/Rogerson falling down the pecking order on the bench
Sign a midfielder, we still only have AK9 & Krishna as recognised goal scorers, Watto/Rogerson remain as our bench options.
We have more depth to cover the midfield role than a wide forward role.
Not sure I would agree. Just because we have cover does not mean those in place are effective.
AK9 and Roy are "recognised goal scorers" but so is Vidosic, and they are all experienced and a class above Watson and Rogerson. I am not convinced we need more strikers at this point.
Our midfield is less blessed with talent and experience and I would like some more support to Paracki and Weemac who are class above the rest and where we suffer if one of them is out injured or has a bad day in the office. We need to have more experienced players in midfield at present to get ourselves in order. Finkler's inability to contribute was one of the symptoms of this problem.
Edit: remember how Roly was targeted by other teams with cynical fouls when he arrived at Phoenix? There was an effective midfielder everyone recognised. I am thinking of spending money on someone in that category if they're available in January window.
I think you're right currently, and agree a marquee defensive mid would be huge for us right now. However I also think moving Mikey back with Paracki and Dario coming into the #10 role would be great too, allowing us to get a marquee left winger. Wings are so important to the way we play, its both a hangover from the Ernie style of whipping in low crosses to the feet of the striker and also a hallmark of the Dutch football style that Darije is very familiar with. The majority of our goals come from crosses or cut backs from out wide, so a top quality left footed pacy winger would be fantastic. Dario has gone missing out wide, but when he's been central he's been much more involved. His vision for through balls and passes is quality when he's playing at 10, and he also poses another aerial threat so that when we are on the attack we play with almost two number 9's, AK and Vidosic, with Mikey pushing up into 10. Another aspect to the benefit of Dario coming in central is that he's actually got a great work rate defensively too, and we've seen him make quite a lot of tackles and clearances already. An attack of Marquee left wing - AK - Krishna playing in front of the midfield three of Vidosic - Mikey - Paracki, it almost doesn't really matter what the defense is like, that is so much quality in one team. Key part of that is with the midfield, all three are good on the ball, have great passing, can shoot, and have the commitment to get back. maybe they play as a flat three and Vidosic drops back into central midfield in normal play, I dunno.
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