Colo in Midfield?

Was down the cosmic ballrooms for the Supermac pre-match talk in and he said he felt that, if we were to get 1-2 quality centre backs in during January... and sell Tiote to cover this.... that Colo could step up into a defensive midfield role and he thought he could do quite well.
He cited Chelsea as an example of how CB conversions can pay dividends.
I've been mulling this over through my drunken haze and actually think I agree with him.

Thoughts?

 

I'd disagree, purely because DM's are responsible for high work-rates. While Colo's positioning is dodgy and might benefit from a move to DM, he neither has the pace nor covers the miles necessary to fill the role (occasional Banzai runs don't count). He's certainly a competent passer over short-range, comfortable in possession etc, but if he's playing DM, I'd suggest our squad is ****ed. Anybody with pace bypasses him as well.

David Luiz's conversion was "successful" because Chelsea have a wonderful squad around him, thus reliance on him at DM is very minimal, the exact opposite of the situation at Newcastle. Luiz sat back and just sprayed passes around, he wasn't by any means a world class DM. Colo doesn't really have long range passing ability, and we'll never have the sort of players around him that allow us the luxury of playing him as DM, in my opinion.

However, I can see us playing him there. Colback, Anita, Sissoko bla bla bla aren't great players. Colo isn't either, but he's still one of our better footballers. If we signed two good players who play CB (not going to happen anyway ), I'm sure Pardew would feel obligated to shove him in somewhere.

 

left back?

 

I remember we played him there once against villa a few years back. It didn't work very well and we lost 1-0

 

Play him as striker if Cisse keeps missing open goals... Jesus, hero to zero in 90 minutes... I'm sure Papiss is bipolar or schizo or something!!!!

 

Aye but Colo missed an even bigger sitter yesterday too lol

 

Oh yeah I forgot about that

 

Our main aim should be getting him out of the club, not changing his position.

 

Can you remember his last game in central midfield? Just no.

 

JPF called this out 100%. He has literally none of the traits of a DM. You look at the worlds best as examples - Makelele, Busquets and the more modern Fernandinho and Javi Martinez. Yes, top players, can pick a pass now and again, but ultimately they read the game, get the ball and give it. Colo's not really that sort. You need to tackle hard, but fair. Run yourself into the ground. No maverick moves, no drives forward. As has been said, perhaps the comparison is Luiz, but they aren't in the same team at all.

 

He's a ****e defender now so would most likely be. A ****er midfielder.