khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Best option is to play 4-3-3 with Messi RW and purposely drive more actions to the right.
There is no 433 with Messi, and even without Messi it doesn't fit our only U-30 world class midfielder (FDJ), who strived in 4231 and so far is bad fit in 433, he doesn't have the discipline/defensive instinct or horizontal movement for sole DM and he has surely been a disappointment as CM.
Never mind we don't have an athletic elite CB who would allow the defense to recover while having only one DM. We have had one of those with Puyol/Mascherano/Umtiti between 2002 & 2018, but not anymore.
Look man, I have been a religiously advocate for 433 as the best formation created in football, but you need to be flexible.
We don't have the personal to do it. And you need almost a new starting XI to play with it.
We are not going for such hard rebuild even under new board. You need to ease transition and accept some compromises.