Claudius
Could not agree more with this.
I reckon stylistically the likes of Rice and Caicedo help compensate for the loss of the more technical ones, because they can simply compete and make us harder to beat. They also open up a ton of possibilities in terms of what we can do - whether it be playing Caicedo or Partey as right sided versions of Zinchenko or how we line up in midfield.
Most importantly though, I reckon they'll allow us to evolve and take a few more risks, whether that means committing the likes of Saka and Martinelli a little further up the pitch or being able to be even bolder with our passing and committing of numbers forward, knowing that when we give it away we have a few players who will quickly mop up.
I hope that's the way we go rather than going for an 8/10 hybrid for that left 8 role.
