- Jun 13, 2008
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Good player but with Sandro and Capoue as DM options and Paulinho as a box to box we need a more attacking, creative player in the mix, really a cm playmaker, it's not about pass rate percentages but seeing and playing the balls forward early. If we are going to get a mid far better a Clasie, Banega, Pastore or a Kovacic depending on quite how attack balanced/creative balanced we want to be
The playmakers will be the No.10, and possibly one of the wide positions if Pochettino brings the same system. The players in the 4-2-3-1 tend to sit and look to cover for the full backs pushing high up the pitch. We don't necessarily need a playmaker, we do need someone, lazily I'll use the label 'like Modric', who can use the ball (often simply but) intelligently, always available for it, move it through the middle third and to keep things ticking over. But with defensive qualities too.