- Dec 28, 2017
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I just think people are going to be disappointed if they think Ndombele will work as the most defensive midfielder in a pairing. I struggle to see Winks/Ndombele as a functional double pivot. Literally every top club in the world plays with a defensive midfielder (except PSG and we see how that works out for them), I don't see how we would be the ones to defy that.In the 3-man midfield lineups which I assume you are referring to, I do indeed think Winks would be the deepest player. He has played that DLP role in the past, so it doesn't surprise me. He'd need at least one physical midfielder in front of him however (Sissoko/Ndombele). That said Ndombele looks like he can play that role whilst being a better screen so if we got him I'd probably have him as the deeper CM in a 3. He looks extremely well rounded. I think he and Winks would be an interesting 2 in a 4-2-3-1. Plenty of industry and passing prowess.
I assumed we would be in the market for a specialist DM but that doesn't appear to be the case so far.
We had ITK from Hercules previously about Berge and tons of links in January to him so hopefully that one is still in the books.
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