Batman
Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
He and the team actually might function better if he plays the left 8 sometimes. Let's pretend we could field something like this next season, maybe not Isak and Neto specifically but those sorts of archetypes:
Martinelli Isak Neto
Saka Ødegaard
Rice
Timber Gabriel Saliba White
Raya
I think that's much more difficult to defend than what we operate with right now because you now can't double anyone out of possession and if you lose the ball in our half, you're getting countered to death. Against a parked bus, now instead of Havertz or Rice at the left 8, you have a player in Saka who gets an easier matchup, is almost certainly faster than whomever is marking him and who can have the ball on his preferred foot to cross or shoot across the goal most of the time. He's much harder to mark at that position and there's a ton of pace and movement that will force teams to cede space for him and Ødegaard.Saka Ødegaard
Rice
Timber Gabriel Saliba White
Raya