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Nacho said:
Not at all I think he'd do well there. I don't see why someone being played in one position means there's no way they can play another.
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He's never played well there. He couldn't play in midfield in League One, but all of a sudden he's a guaranteed starter in a Championship midfield? Do me a favour...
 
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TopCat_ said:
Going to be fun on here today where the SAFC apologists make a case for Nathan Bishop being good enough to play up front, whilst the anti-Speakman mob plan to rush him at the next home game for refusing to sign Amad

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How do you know that bishop wouldnt make a good striker tho
 
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Scout73 said:
We def need another CM, ideally they would be a cdm as thatll free up our current cms to play in their preferred roles

However, if no cdm's that we want are available id be happy with another CM (potentially someone like styles who knows the league, maybe lost his way a little but has the potential) and then we use neil as 1st choice cdm n ekwah as back up cdm (ekwah would start but in box to box role). I think if we play a 3 man midfield (433) then i think someone like rigg will continue to get mins but we def need another body in there as we'll be in trouble if Neil misses any games
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FINALLY some sense spoken...
 
Nacho said:
Just because you don't rate them there doesn't mean they don't exist. I'd rather see us develop our own players there especially Neil, I don't see a new CM getting a lot of game time.

Btw O'Nien's not been playing in CM because he's been our first choice CB it's not like he's been dropped.
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Could argue Phil Foden is a DM because he’s played there for 10 minutes if that’s the case
 
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TopCat_ said:
Ekwah is absolutely NOT a defensive midfielder. He has no awareness of danger. Just look at the 2nd goal in the cup game.
Neil can play that role, but he's far better and more effective further forward.
We've seen enough of O'Nien in midfield to know he's not a midfielder. The fact he's played there once in the last 2 seasons says it all
Matete is more a player who likes to carry the ball. Box to box rather than CDM

Plenty of revisionism going on here today saying we don't need a CDM when even the club have said we do
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Most of the games that Ekwah has played throughout his career, including in the West Ham and Chelsea age group sides, have been as a defensive midfielder. Neil plays the role well. There is an argument that both are better slightly further forward but both are good enough to play the role.
 
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Defensive midfielders who can break up play but also have the qualities to play midfield for a possession based team are rare, I'd say they are rarer than the mystical 'championship proven striker'.

I'd say in the championship I can think of Ampadu, Shea Charles and Ben Sheaf who are players who can play as a lone defensive midfielder and also have ability on the ball to play at the top end of the championship. The rest of the league either play 2 more box to box players which masks any defensive weaknesses like Ipswich and Boro or they play a genuine ball player like Leicester with Winks and Swansea with Grimes which in Swanseas case especially leaves them so open.

I want another defensive midfielder but I think we will persist with Neil deeper and either sign a more box to box player or give more game time to Rigg which I am not against at all.
 
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Sour Patch said:
Defensive midfielders who can break up play but also have the qualities to play midfield for a possession based team are rare, I'd say they are rarer than the mystical 'championship proven striker'.

I'd say in the championship I can think of Ampadu, Shea Charles and Ben Sheaf who are players who can play as a lone defensive midfielder and also have ability on the ball to play at the top end of the championship. The rest of the league either play 2 more box to box players which masks any defensive weaknesses like Ipswich and Boro or they play a genuine ball player like Leicester with Winks and Swansea with Grimes which in Swanseas case especially leaves them so open.

I want another defensive midfielder but I think we will persist with Neil deeper and either sign a more box to box player or give more game time to Rigg which I am not against at all.
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I think Ben Whiteman is a bit of an underrated DM too for Preston.. remember him playing for Doncaster against us and he looked a cut above that level
 
I’d be fairly content with just a dm in, a striker would be great but quality strikers are few and far between and anyone would be mad to let one go in Jan, there’s goals in this team if we play to the tempo we did at the weekend
 
Nacho said:
Not at all I think he'd do well there. I don't see why someone being played in one position means there's no way they can play another.
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No,sorry marra,but there's no way I'd see Luke playing in central midfield. I love the lad, but he needs to see the game in front of him.
 
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Just thought there Blackburn have loaned their DM captain out and sold their other centre midfielder. Imagine the meltdown if we sold Neil and loaned Ekwah out this window :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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