Playing Leo as false 9, thereby having a completely useless player in Suarez, it's like starting with a player less! We would end up burning Leo out and not havng the best player fit enough in the business end of the season, which would be beyond foolish!
Bringing Suarez into form and having him perform well, who's not exactly a run of the mill jackshit player, would make the best player's life that much easier. And we won't have him burnt out during the business end of the season which we very much did quite a lot of times already btw!
I never said that playing Leo as false 9 was not the best thing, I myself mentioned 2010-11 season when we were one of the most dominant teams! But it would only make sense if we have the wide forwards performing well and we are not completely depending on Leo to provide the spark. And having Suarez not performing but still starting makes sure we do the exact same thing! It would only make sense if Suarez is completely benched and Denis Suarez or a Jose Arnaiz are integrated into the first team with them performing well.
Lol. Starting Suarez anywhere on current form is like starting with a player less.
This is where we're at... We're playing a 2 striker system with Messi deep. This off the bat already leaves us 2 creative players (wingers) short while at the same time taking away, to a large extent, our biggest scoring threat in Messi. Now I could maybe understand all this if the 2 strikers were performing but 18 competitive games into the season, I repeat 18 games, and we're no closer to seeing Suarez return to "this" form. I won't let 2 rebound goals fool me into believing otherwise considering he is still unable to make basic passes and his first touch has completely deserted him.
Messi, on the other hand, is now basically playing in the congestion of midfield (particularly the last 3 games) and this is evidenced by the fact that he has been dispossessed a lot more. So maybe you can explain to me just how Messi playing for Suarez and Paco is good for the team when on form alone, never mind reputation, it should be the other way around. I could easily make the argument that persisting with Suarez and Paco will be the cause of Messi burnout, if any, because there is just no assistance from them.
To compound matters further... Denis and Deulofeu on a per minute basis have outperformed these 2 in an attacking sense, especially in terms of creativity which we severely lack looking at our chance creation per possession stats, but yet they're warming the bench. But, even more concerning though, is where does Dembele fit in all this "bring Suarez back to form" nonsense? As I see it the only option is for Messi to play on the right wing and Dembele on the left wing but we know that's not going to happen because Messi has long since been an out and out winger and it causes all sorts of defensive issues.
