they only thing i don't like about 5/3 at the back is that it negates pretty much all of the wide players we have. You would either have to play a striker alongside rom, okay, with sandro that could work well, or you would have to have a great playmaker ... we don't have any of them.
With that formation it renders bolasie, deulofeu, mirallas, lookman, lennon all useless and possibly to an extent ross. We only have 2 strikers now as it is as well, where if we're going to play 2, you would need 4 or 5 good ones. I suppose it's a decent option for some games, but well, with coleman missing the first few months and the season and baines not really the energy he once was bombing up and down the wing, there's also issues there with wing backs. I think it'd help accommodate kenny better whilst he starts off, but it is a formation which may have been better for us 3/4 years ago as opposed to now.