Scott Sinclair - now gone

[Steve67]

Good luck Scott. Make it work, we'll make you an international. It's what we do!!

[olaftab]

Yes like this for me

         Sanchez             Delphi

Gil                                           Sinclair

            Weimann         Benteke

[dave.woodhall]

Yes like this for me

         Sanchez             Delphi

Gil                                           Sinclair

            Weimann         Benteke

That would be my choice as well.

[Toronto Villa]

Gabby is only an impact player from the bench late in games. He's no longer a starter and he doesn't have the sharpness to be a recognized forward. I like the idea of Weimann with his work rate moving into open spaces created by Benteke or like he did at the weekend taking chances from the good play of others. Benteke needs help up there and some consistency that would come from an established strike partner.

[saunders_heroes]

Agreed. Weimann's a striker who knows where the goal is, but he's utterly wasted playing out in the sticks.

[Dave]

Yes like this for me

         Sanchez             Delphi

Gil                                           Sinclair

            Weimann         Benteke

If Sinclair can have a great season aiming his passes at Danny Graham, you'd hope that he can have a bit of joy trying to find Benteke.

[Damo70]

Yes like this for me

         Sanchez             Delphi

Gil                                           Sinclair

            Weimann         Benteke

That would be my choice as well.

Count me in for that as well.

[BC54 VFC]

I'd love to see Weimann given a chance up front with Benteke. He's not the second Gary Shaw but I think there's 30 league goals a season between them.

Spot on.

[dave.woodhall]

Assuming Hutton, Cissoko, Clark & Okore as well. That could give a bench of Given, Vlaar, Bacuna, Westwood, Grealish, Agbonlahor & Kozak, which has strength in depth and a few options.

[Concrete John]

That's the best team if we go 442, however I can't see us not playing with three central midfielders anytime soon.  Probably Westwood in for Weimann is what I think we'll see and it could work well, too.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Sigh. Kozak. I fear his career maybe over.  Hard to come back from that.

[PeterWithesShin]

That's the best team if we go 442, however I can't see us not playing with three central midfielders anytime soon.  Probably Westwood in for Weimann is what I think we'll see and it could work well, too.

As we rarely have more than 2 fit CB at a time we may see more of a 442/4411.

[pauliewalnuts]

Assuming Hutton, Cissoko, Clark & Okore as well. That could give a bench of Given, Vlaar, Bacuna, Westwood, Grealish, Agbonlahor & Kozak, which has strength in depth and a few options.

As most of us have said, there is a decent amount of ability in the squad, and there has been for a while now.

The problem is that, for all we can see it in theory, we never seem to see it on the pitch with any regularity. Or if we do, it is only in the odd area of the pitch. So, we'll start defending really well, but at the same time, stop scoring goals. Or the midfield will look a bit better, and we'll stop defending.

If the manager could get the team performing at, say, 80%, which I don't think is unreasonable, we wouldn't be mooking around the arse end of the table yet again as we are now.

[Concrete John]

That's the best team if we go 442, however I can't see us not playing with three central midfielders anytime soon.  Probably Westwood in for Weimann is what I think we'll see and it could work well, too.

As we rarely have more than 2 fit CB at a time we may see more of a 442/4411.

I'm thinking a 433:-
Guzan

Hutton
Okore
Clark
Cissoko

Sanchez
Westwood
Delph

Sinclair
Benteke
Gil

[PeterWithesShin]

My mistake, I read that as 3 CB not 3 CM. DOH!