CDM by committee.
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I don't think any of that trio has the positional awareness to play the position except for Maxi. And no. He would get destroyed.
We don't have a CDM right now. Judging by the heat map, we have 3 #8s
I've never seen that before.
I thought Tom in Fairfield CT rather effectively debunked that in another thread. Average is just one summary statistic.
Sure it is. I still think Pirlo is the "6" but that means we are playing an unconventional midfield. All totally replaceable.
That being the case, the replacement should be another interchangeable, creative player.
A DM that can do half of what Pirlo does offensively while playing excellent, physical defense would be incredible.
I think we all agree there, but I don't believe PV thinks that.
Maybe we just disagree on what he does offensively and what half of that would be ...
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I know it is too early to tell, but should those here who claimed schwinnie was too worn to contribute to a MLS club at least admit there is a decent chance they might turn out to be wrong at th end of this season? I mention this point because we are dismissing a lot of older players in this forum and maybe we should be more open minded on the issue of age/wear/tear.
Yes, it is too early.
No, I don't think we should. We had a decades worth of shit with Lampard. From a reputational risk standpoint, you can't do that again with a Schweinny like situation. Too many questions, too much injury history, too many ways to go bad - not least of which is he crushes it and goes back to play a year or two in a top 5 league.
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Thanks to Jose, he didn't age at all for the last year.
The deal with age/wear/tear is it's an issue of odds and percentages. Nobody ever said players at high risk of injury or a sudden decline in ability never work out. So having them sometimes pay off is not a refutation of the choice to avoid them. Let's say you sign a guy 28 years old and no injury history. There's some risk still that he will get hurt, or suffer some inexplicable downgrade in performance. Maybe 2%, 5%? But sign a 32 year old with chronic knee trouble and it's maybe 60-65%. That still leaves a roughly 1/3 chance he'll work out. It's not surprising when a 1/3 bet pays off. But the 98% bet is still a better deal, especially since you're not getting a proportionally higher payoff on the old, knocked up guy.
PL teams can take risks on a healthy 36 or 37 year old, or a 32 year old coming off an injury, because if he doesn't work out you just buy someone else.
We only get 3 DPs, and when we blow one of them on a guy who plays a half season 2-years in a row, there is no way to make that up.
My post on reputational risk is a corollary of this line of thinking. NYCFC in particular can't afford a high-risk older player that doesn't work out for whatever reason, not because of the media damage but because of people like us.
We are why we can't have nice things.
This should be a pinned post at the top of every page of this forum.
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So do we want iniesta or not.
Let's be honest, any apprehension about Pirlo was completely lost when the smoke started turning into fire. We would all be thrilled with Iniesta. Even those that would deny that now would rationalize it when it happens.
Recap of big names discussed and potentially available: Khedira, Santi, Iniesta, Torres, Honda.
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