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The Frank De Boer tactical and squad breakdown thread

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Bored, sniff it.

Frank favours a 4-3-3, with 2 full backs, a deep lying number 10 playmaker flanked by 2 box to box midfielders, with 2 attacking wingers and a "number 9".

Using the current players in the squad, it would look like this :

Robles
Coleman - Stones - Jags - Baines
McCarthy - Barkley - Besic
Geri - Lukaku - Mirallas


Some players he "may" bring with him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Fischer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riechedly_Bazoer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Cillessen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaïro_Riedewald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadiusz_Milik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Klaassen

And hopefully this fella.



Frank is a clever man, this is what his squad will look like, if their name aint down, Frank hasnt let them in, only "first team players" will be named :

GK
Robles
Cillessen

RB
Tete
Coleman

LB
Baines
Oviedo
Garbutt

CB
Stones
Mori
Jags
Riedwald

CM
McCarthy
Bazoer
Besic
Cleverley

DLP
Barkley
Klaassen

RW
Mirallas
Lennon
Geri

LW
Niasse
Fischer

CF
Lukaku
Millik
Tarashaji

Now clearly Ajax arent gonna let us mug off half their team, so in certains areas we would need to shop elsewhere. Now I know theres certain players missing and we will struggle to get rid of some of them, others not so much.

The noticeable name missing is Gareth Barry, who is a superb player, but I cant see him "fitting" into Franks system so could see him taking a little move to the US or China, the rest are fairly pony and I would just get rid of them all on a free.

Depending on our luck in getting rid of McGeady, Kone and the ilk, maybe we could add a little more creativity in the middle of the park alongside the Bosnian Zidane, Franks First 11 will look like this :

Cillessen
Tete - Stones - Riedelwald - Baines
Bazoer- Barkley - Besic
Geri --------------------Fischer
Lukaku

:coffee::coffee:

@Brownie



When we appoint him you'll be able to dine out on this for years...........
 

AC Milan eh? - That'll please Brocchi who only joined last month!!!

didnt he only get it till the end of the season? His contract only runs rill June.

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Former midfielder Brocchi has a contract until June, and if things go well he will rewarded with the role full-time. Indications are the former one-cap Italy international will be judged more on performances than results. If it is a Brocchi horror show Galliani says he will return to working with the youngsters.
 
didnt he only get it till the end of the season? His contract only runs rill June.

Edit:

Former midfielder Brocchi has a contract until June, and if things go well he will rewarded with the role full-time. Indications are the former one-cap Italy international will be judged more on performances than results. If it is a Brocchi horror show Galliani says he will return to working with the youngsters.

Wowzers - a 2 month contract! ....That also kinda ties in with Mourinho's comments about being back in work in July

so we have De Boer off to Valencia, Mourinho off to AC Milan and that leaves us with a choice of Pellegrini or Koeman
 
Wowzers - a 2 month contract! ....That also kinda ties in with Mourinho's comments about being back in work in July

He obviously has a longer contract - but has been given the top job till June. As Galliani says he will go back to the youth teams if it doesnt work out.

Don't think Mourinho would rock up at AC after his comments about Inter.
 


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