Rackybear
You Must Respect Ma Authowita!
- Aug 10, 2008
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I dont understand why you are all giving this guy such a hard time, even when i read the article title, i thought "here we go", but having read it, he raises a really good point.
If we had left Jenas to play the modric (attacking, playmaking / goalscoring midfielder role), and had spent the money we used on modric instead on someone like Veloso, Carrick, or that kind of calibre player perhaps our midfield would have more balance.
Whilst modric is a great player and a great signing, him AND jenas in the midfield isnt really what we need. I think this point has been raised before, but rightly so, both of them prefer to be attacking midfielders, neither of them have a preference for defending. Look at the top clubs:-
Chelsea - Essien/Mikel Hold and clean things up with not much intention to support attacks whilst Lamps, Ballack and now Deco can play further up the pitch.
Man Utd - Carrick/Hargreaves sit back, Scholes pushes on.
Liverpool - Mascherano/Alonso hold, gerrard pushes.
Arsenal - Fabregas box to box with a holding player in flamini, who will do it now, who knows.
But spurs need to find a similar balance, Jenas and Modric cant do that simply because its neither of their natural game. Sure ramos can ask Jenas to sit, but we are wasting his abilities by doing that, and also have a player who isnt that great at it either. Let him express himself on the game, push forward, make runs into the box and give us a goal threat, what i just said for Jenas applies for modric too, we need to let him loose in the "hole" and playmake and impact the attacking play from their, not from just in front of our defence!
If we had left Jenas to play the modric (attacking, playmaking / goalscoring midfielder role), and had spent the money we used on modric instead on someone like Veloso, Carrick, or that kind of calibre player perhaps our midfield would have more balance.
Whilst modric is a great player and a great signing, him AND jenas in the midfield isnt really what we need. I think this point has been raised before, but rightly so, both of them prefer to be attacking midfielders, neither of them have a preference for defending. Look at the top clubs:-
Chelsea - Essien/Mikel Hold and clean things up with not much intention to support attacks whilst Lamps, Ballack and now Deco can play further up the pitch.
Man Utd - Carrick/Hargreaves sit back, Scholes pushes on.
Liverpool - Mascherano/Alonso hold, gerrard pushes.
Arsenal - Fabregas box to box with a holding player in flamini, who will do it now, who knows.
But spurs need to find a similar balance, Jenas and Modric cant do that simply because its neither of their natural game. Sure ramos can ask Jenas to sit, but we are wasting his abilities by doing that, and also have a player who isnt that great at it either. Let him express himself on the game, push forward, make runs into the box and give us a goal threat, what i just said for Jenas applies for modric too, we need to let him loose in the "hole" and playmake and impact the attacking play from their, not from just in front of our defence!
