The Squad planning thread

[johnny crossan]

One of the existing senior squad needs to depart to accommodate Savio, he's not club trained.

 

[Haaland94]

One of the existing senior squad needs to depart to accommodate Savio, he's not club trained.

Gomez departed, though?

 

[johnny crossan]

Gomez departed, though?

Currently 22 in the 21 free/locally trained places. Needs another departure - Phillips and/or Cancelo are the likely candidates but you never know.

 

[Skrastins]

Currently 22 in the 21 free/locally trained places. Needs another departure - Phillips and/or Cancelo are the likely candidates but you never know.

i doubt Kalvin and Cancelo will be registered.

 

[WallyA]

Hence the 361 shout. Let's assume for a second we got say Wharton for that understudy slash co CM role role

..............................Eddy/Ortega....
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Walker/Akanji....Stones/Dias.....Gvardiol/Ake


.............Rodri/Wharton.....Wharton/Kovacic.......
Savinho/Bobb...............................Doku/Grealish
............Foden/ Kevin.......Bernado/Olmo.......


............................Haaaland/ Alvarez........


Something like this. 3 defenders 6 mids with 2 DMs and 4 attacking mids.

So this is just the 541 formation Leverkusen uses but your using wingers as wingbacks.

Listen, im all for it, I have suggested this a few times as I believe we arw better with wingers out wide than fullbacks.

It does require alot of tracking back for those wingers because in rest defense they need to make a back 5.

As much as you dislike the CB into CDM role, it was actually genius of Pep to invent this. He had wide wingers like you have, but they arent wingbacks, there are defensive fullbacks behind them for cover. It retains the back 4 Pep prefers, I believe for pressing reasons, Pep will never do a back 5 as he feels it is inferior.

I say all this while liking your 541, but I can see valid concerns of wingers as wingbacks (too much burden), and when defending the formatiom tends to sit too deep for Pep to start pressing with.

 

[Coatigan]

Currently 22 in the 21 free/locally trained places. Needs another departure - Phillips and/or Cancelo are the likely candidates but you never know.

No we are on 21/21 now, for senior players. Including Cancelo and Phillips. Gomez out Savinho in kept that within the limit.

 

[johnny crossan]

No we are on 21/21 now, for senior players. Including Cancelo and Phillips. Gomez out Savinho in kept that within the limit.

Time to get my list out....
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21 it is - I can't count

 

[Coatigan]

I count 22

Senior players, it is 21.

 

[johnny crossan]

Senior players, it is 21.

See above :-)

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Pep saying he’s not expecting any more ins today