Somebody mentioned that it's going to take a genius to replace Xavi ..... well we've got one
The passage below is not mine , it's just been copied and pasted from another Barca forum BUT it kinda makes sense ..
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" Perhaps the best course of action for the coming season, would be to move Messi to an Attacking Midfielder role, along side Iniesta, he is our leading assist front man...
He can pass the ball with purpose at any given instant, and would open up various dimensions to our attack :
1 - He would occupy the middle of the park, there for markers would have to leave their zonal space if they would want to stop him, which would prove deadly since our three attackers would have a newly found space to operate in...
2 - Messi no longer will see eye to eye with 3 defenders under each touch of the ball
3 - We can now add a new striker/winger or even move one of Neymar Alexis, to their false 9 preferred positions...
4 - It will instantly change the dynamics of how Barcelona attacks, from passive passing to xavi, who sends diagonal balls that have become predictable in recent times, to a more direct approach, where the ball reaches the middle, and is on course to either finding the front men, or the back of the net....
5 - it will put an end to the Messi dependency glitch we have become accustomed to seeing....
