Claudius wrote:
If you added Jorginho to today’s team in place of El Neny that would be big improvement. Glad to see Arteta is willing to bench Xhaka.
I'm not certain of that at all. The problem with our deep CMs is they have no recovery ability whatsoever, so we can't push high up or we'll get done. Jorginho is arguably much worse in that regard than anyone we've got, even Xhaka. He'd be a recipe for totally ineffective possession that's vulnerable on the break.
Similarly, he's not going to drop in as an auxiliary right back. He needs at least one hard running B2B midfield partner that can mop up and get him the ball if he's going to be any good. We have nobody like that at all.
He's the opposite of versatile as a player, though what he can do is make the team more versatile as a whole if what you've got are a bunch of AMs and a couple of decent tacklers. He'd take you up a level. As it stands, we've got nothing like the kind of squad that he makes any sense for, and that doesn't even factor in his Chelsea reject status.
