How badly do we need a Nasri/Sneijder type signing?

BillyShears said:
Just curious - this Sneijder/Nasri type signing - can someone tell me who's place this player will take in the starting XI?

Milner or Barry....

Do we really need De Jong and Barry ? or De Jong and Milner ?

Granted that Milner played a more central role yesterday until Mancini moved him out right...but he's not the sort of player who's going to creatively link play.
 
BurnCK said:
BillyShears said:
Just curious - this Sneijder/Nasri type signing - can someone tell me who's place this player will take in the starting XI?

Milner or Barry....

Do we really need De Jong and Barry ? or De Jong and Milner ?

Granted that Milner played a more central role yesterday until Mancini moved him out right...but he's not the sort of player who's going to creatively link play.

If that is the case then I expect one of Milner or Barry to be very unhappy by Xmas (not that I'm arsed about that)...

Wonder though why we've never tried moving Silva into a midfield three and playing with two wide players to support him...ala the current Madrid set up (Ozil flanked by Ronaldo/Di Maria behind a striker). We actually have the players to do this...

I realize that there's a possibility that Silva would have less space if he was moved into the middle, but this would be countered by us having a genuine threat on either flank rather than playing with one nominal "wide" player and then a free roaming Silva...
 
Currently...

------------------------Hart-----------------------
Richards-----Kompany-----Lescott-----Kolarov
----------------------De Jong----------------------
----------Y.Toure--------------Barry-------------
-----------------------Silva------------------------
--------------Tevez--------Aguero--------------

The only way I can see Sneijder or Nasri fitting in to the team is if we drop a striker. Dropping Barry would give us no shape I think.
 
I dont really think a creative midfielder is what we need, maybe a backup to Silva but Nasri/Sneijder arnt going to be happy to do that. All these fantasy formations look pretty with Nasri-Sneijder-Silva behind Aguero but in reality it probably wouldnt work, we would have a lack of pace (nasris nippy but not in a wide player sort of way). Teams would sit there back four in front of us and say pass it through. Think we need a Injection of pace and power out wide (sanchez would have been perfect but there are others) and the answer isnt to move our best player (Silva) to a position where hes less effective on the left to accomodate another creative midfielder.
All this notwithstanding the fact that Mancini is probably gonna stick with the two more defensive midfielders in middle that made us so solid.
 
silvasilvasilva said:
I dont really think a creative midfielder is what we need, maybe a backup to Silva but Nasri/Sneijder arnt going to be happy to do that. All these fantasy formations look pretty with Nasri-Sneijder-Silva behind Aguero but in reality it probably wouldnt work, we would have a lack of pace (nasris nippy but not in a wide player sort of way). Teams would sit there back four in front of us and say pass it through. Think we need a Injection of pace and power out wide (sanchez would have been perfect but there are others) and the answer isnt to move our best player (Silva) to a position where hes less effective on the left to accomodate another creative midfielder.
All this notwithstanding the fact that Mancini is probably gonna stick with the two more defensive midfielders in middle that made us so solid.

Aguero is very quick. Nasri while not rapid is fast enough. It's the ball retention and movement off the ball from those 4 would be exceptional. The 3 behind Aguero would be fairly interchangeable, you don't have a player like Silva and tie him down to the left wing.

If teams sit back, then good, you bomb your full back's forward on the overlap. If they park the bus even better, push up to the half way line and pin em in, with players off that quality and intelligence you will create plenty of openings.
 
10

we need someone on the same wave length as Silva (only Tevez at the moment)

RW..............................Nasri...............................Silva

.................................Aguero...................................

If Tevez leaves which IMO he will
 

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