Just imagine

................Speroni
....Chambers....Sakho.......Riedewald

van der Wiel....................PVA/Schulpp

...........Luka.........Cabaye/RLC

..Townsend....................Zaha
............Benteke

Bench

Punch
Dann
Wickham
PVA/Schlupp
Cabaye/RLC
Hennessey
Ward

Won't happen, but it would be nice.

Why would you spend a small fortune in buying up better players than we already have and then stick an old man in goal?

We'd win many a game with that line up.

Buffon has done very well at JSs sort of age.

Benteke's mainly headed goals and Wilf's wing play with goals added to his game were the main reason we managed to stay up.

Get the idea about varying the tactics but appears Benteke hardly saw a cross in HK. Reserve judgement but getting a bit concerned by some of this bullsh1t tbh.

I'm not the biggest fan of it and wouldn't say it suits us too well. The way we play it, our two central midfield players end up sitting very deep and are not too willing to carry the ball forward (would expect Puncheon to do this but he doesn't), meaning that they can't really link with the front three. For me, there has seemed to be too much of a gap between them.

From what I have seen they are not always looking to receive the ball from the back three either which means that the defenders end up having to try and hoof the ball. Benteke seems very isolated. Also I personally prefer having wingers and full backs so that they can support each other up and down the flanks. However if we have a central midfielder who is willing to carry the ball forward and pass effectively (not just backwards or sideways all the time) perhaps it could work a bit better.