In your scenario I hope to see vales, alves - pique - puyol - abidal, xavi - fabregas - iniesta, messi - villa - ibrahimovic.
I was wondering if Fabregas can function as a DM for us?
Generally i dont see a reason why not. I dont see Busi being much stronger defensively for example, he certainly is superior in the air though. It would prolly need a 2nd tower CD to make up for that loss though, someone who would go for high balls in the center midfield, interchanging with Pique to reduce the running distances from his initial position, b/c a single tower CD isnt prolly able to cover that area.
I just wanted to state that generally Cesc would be able to play as DM (with some alterations in the defense). I didnt mean to say that he would be able to use his full potential there. So it could indeed be a waste to play him there b/c someone else could do it as good.Do you remember Xavi struggled playing as a deep lying playmaker few years ago, and that when Pep played him in an more advanced role, it was kinda liberation for him? That also can happen to Cesc as well. Both of them are at their best when there are given more time in front. We should let a more established DM (in this case Busi) to run our game from deep.
VV
..pique...puyol
...sergi....cesc
....xavi..... iniesta
messi..torres..villa...pedro
the good old backwards 4-4-2 we played in many times at chacarita jr's
I just wanted to state that generally Cesc would be able to play as DM (with some alterations in the defense). I didnt mean to say that he would be able to use his full potential there. So it could indeed be a waste to play him there b/c someone else could do it as good.