by Ted Hughes » Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:36 pm
My point isn't really about 'accomodating' Silva. Of course we can do that. He is a fantastic player, but what is he ?
If you get a blank sheet of paper, & you say for instance 'ok I'm going to build a team which plays with width' Then you put in Aguero, pick two wide players do you pick Silva as one of the wide players ? I would say absolutely not. You could 'accomodate' him but then you don't play with two wide players. So you look at centre mids. Do you want Silva or do you want a modern day Colin Bell & Roy Keane ? No contest there. So you play Silva behind the front man & now you have two fantastic centre mids, a pair of excellent pacey wide players, they get the ball out wide sprint to the line &...Aguero at 5ft is the ony target, so they can't cross anything in the air.
So you go 'I know, let's not have two wide players...'
This happens with almost every system you try to figure.
Even in a midfield 5, Silva as a false 9 is a really really really shit one compared to all of the famous ones over the years. They all score loads & take fee kicks etc. Totti compared to Silva in that job ?
Silva is a quite brilliant footballer, one of the best in the league, but he doesn't have a position.
Doug hit the nail on the head: the best system with Silva in it, which got the best from him, was when we had a side full of midfield players & no strikers.
We can of course accomodate Silva & he will be one of our best players. But if we were building a team from scratch, to play a particular way, with everyone assigned a balanced job, we wouldn't pick him for any position in it.
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