NYCFC Players Wanted Thread
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Looks like man of the hour-a, Lucas Moura.
How do we feel about this formation the rest of the season? Specifically Maxi on a wing?
I can’t see how we don’t move on from Medina at this point.
I can’t see how we don’t move on from Medina at this point.
Not sure Maxi truly is on the wing. They call it a 343 but I think Maxi is more central as an attacking mid.
Splitting hairs, of course, but I'd call his position "left forward." Winger implies the player is providing width, either from the forward line, midfield, or a back five. Maxi and Tajouri-Shradi have been forward, but not beholden to staying wide. I think Maxi is good for this role, but would be wasted if told to stay wide.
As far as the rest of the seasons, I have three questions:
1. Is Mitrita a starter? He's been battling injury, but who sits for him in the first choice lineup when fully healthy? ITS with Maxi shifting to the right? That's where I would lean, while giving ITS healthy minutes off the bench and in rotation.
2. What position does a summer DP play? While I'd never turn down a top attacker, we just started Tony Rocha at CM due to just one injury. I think it has to be a CM if possible, if Maxi truly stays a forward in this system.
3. Where is our weakness and how will we adjust? My understanding is the 3-4-3's weakness is making space wide behind or in front of the wingers, and high pressing to force them back into a 5-2-3, which isolates the midfielders. Luckily our narrow pitch helps a lot with the first one, but if Ben Sweat continues to play significant minutes, he's going to become the pinata. If we stick to this system all year, a new left midfield and shoring up CM this summer will be key.
I mentioned this in the chatbox during the game but I think Ander Herrera would be a great DP signing for the summer
3-3-1-3 to keep Mitri and Isi in the same team.
RE: the weakness of this system. It looks like when we are playing central, it's basically 5 players in a very narrow area (2 CMs plus 2 inside forwards plus 1 wingback). Most other teams don't commit that many people centrally, so it will be hard to beat that overload. I can imagine being a little weak against a 4-4-2 diamond, so Philly should be interesting. I can imagine it being a bit of a shootout because both systems are very narrow and leave a lot of space for the switch.
All signs point to PSG. Barca was interested as well. He has several years of the very top of the top tier ahead of him.
RB depth, RB depth, RB depth.
Our only backup for arguably our best/most consistent player this season is a 16 year old with zero MLS minutes. That's not ideal.
I'd like to see what JP Torres can do out there. Let's hope we can find minutes for both Scally and Torres at the end of matches that we're leading comfortably so they can get acclimated gradually. It was nice to have the luxury of giving time to Parks and Mitri.
Same was said about James Sands earlier. I trust in the talent of Scally. Play the kids.
Scally is ahead of where Sands was two years ago. I don’t know how that helps us today
It means they're ready for limited minutes to adjust to the game so that if / when you need them, they aren't shitting down their legs.
Over under date on when Scally sees the field next? Open Cup has to be the line, right?
I agree that we should sign another CM this summer. I do not agree it should be a 35 year old who may around here didn't want when he was 32 due to his injury history.
Source is Tuttomercatoweb, which I know nothing about but r/reddevils classifies as "Tier 4 (Aggregators, indirect sources, low reliability)."
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