03 Oct 2015 14:03:21
Was watching a video of celtic goals against rangers. Good memories! Have been following now for 45 years. Formations and tactics have changed a lot. If we were to slot players into current formation who would you pick? My team is as follows;
Forster
Lustig Van Dijk Wanyama Izziguire
Brown Petrov
Commons Nakamura Moravcik
Larsson
Haven't seen an overload of good left backs so emelio for me - he has had some great games although not fulfilled his initial potential. Sutton and Hartson don't fit with current formation but in another era would be starts. Bit light in bottom of attacking diamond but would be great on offensive; those three would all interchange! Wanyama is too good to leave out and was a great centre back as well. Have probably left out someone obvious but please correct me! Surprising for me is that I have 4 players from current team! And nearly more if we consider recent departures.
03 Oct 2015 14:25:53
Boruc
McGrain Balde VVD Izzy
McStay Wanyama
Di Canio Lubo Thom
Larsson
03 Oct 2015 14:47:44
For a start u have Larsson in the team obviously. 1 word from him and you would have to change the formation. He wudnt want to play lone striker role and would be a total waste of his talents.
You cudnt have Naka Commons and Lubo as attacking 3. No legs there despite great talent.
Kinda makes a mockery of our system as we don't have the players to play it currently and this team defo hasn't.
Will keep saying it till I green in the face lol, u don't play a system and fit square pegs in round holes. You play a system that suits the players u have.
Imagine having Sutton/Hartson the now, they prob wudnt get a game. Crazy eh.
03 Oct 2015 16:20:23
Ryman never thought of looking at it like that but you are correct. RD has tried to get the team super fit in order to make his system as effective as possible. I feel he is willing to sacrifice flair such as Commons because he wants total fitness so players can press and press. I agree with you that we don't have the players to play the system not just in terms of fitness but they are not good enough to play different positions. They are a limited squad in terms of ability and we take no account of that so we don't get the best of them. Commons will never score 30 goals playing this system. His lack of goals are a massive loss.
03 Oct 2015 17:06:22
Yes Johnny KC will never score as many playing like this. You also take away 20 goals now that VVD and Denayer are gone, you can see why we struggle to score sometimes. Why put goal scorers either in wrong position or not playing it just doesn't make sense.
03 Oct 2015 17:20:08
And does it also mean Messi, Totti, Zlatan, and Balotelli wudt get a game for us. because they don't go chasing shadows.