No no no, you see this is entirely inaccurate, by your own account, we played quite a number of games that season in a 4231, it was in the second half of the season Jurgen reverted to his preferred higher pressing 433, and that is when the issues with Fab at No6 and teams setting up to counter on us successfully playing off Fab not picking players up and our playing Trent a lot higher began
Through that we had to bring captain fantastic back in and he and Gini in combination both picked up Fab's slack, the following season when Fab was out, we got to see the absolute heights of how Jurgen's preferred 433 high pressing game could be played with a lifelong midfield player and top No6 playing in his place, when Fab was brought back in, things immediately started to go a wry
Fab's our Pogba except for he can't play in a 3, not in the high pressing game in any event and that represents a real problem, we're currently not playing our best and most successful system and to the majority of our players strengths to accommodate Fab's shortcomings as a No6 in a 3 in a high press
He looks to be improving quite quickly with the support around him and deeper line in a great many of the things I have complained of about him, so hopefully, the penny has dropped about his flaws and they are being addressed with that support with a view to hopefully coaching him to be good enough to operate as the No6 in Jurgen's preferred set up, because if he can't improve to be good enough at that, well, there's really no point our keeping him, and he'll make an excellent player for another team who play with a 2 in midfield
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