Ideal trio would be: Muntari-Vieira-Cambiasso. All of them can play in both DM and box-to-box MF positions and this will give our midfield enough flexibility, attacking and defending quality.
Yes, true but where will Zanetti play? RB? Don't think so, and the idea of him playing in attack is preposterous. Mourinho know that Zanetti is loved by fans and he must be in first 11 aswell with Cambiasso. It means we have only 1 place in midfield, which will propably look like:
-Zanetti-Cambiasso-*****-
The question is who will fill 3rd place?
We have too many players in squad and too many midfielders. To be honest, our squad looks like football were 12-man sport, not 11. Very good that we didn't extend Cesar and Solari contracts. In my opinion we should get rid of Dacourt unless he shows some extremly good performance in 3 first matches, as we don't have more time to test him.
Personally I don't know what Figo and Stankovic is doing still in our squad. Figo is no more the player he was and his age affects his performance.
For this 3rd spot we have too many pretendents. Figo, Jimenez, Vieira, Muntari and Dacourt. I don't count this less-than-average playing lately Stankovic and hoping that Pele will be loaned for 1 year to Lazio-level club (which in my opinion is good option). So there is at least 4 players who will want to play on this position, counting that if Figo will play, then he will play as striker. But it also depends on if Jimenez will be counted as striker or not, becouse if yes, then we will have only 2 players for that position.
For me its either Vieira or Muntari and I would rather bet on Muntari as I think he is better option for us seeing his lately performance.
Problem is also as we know in attack. As we know, Mourinho wants 3 strikers, 1 very strong who will 'attack' defenders and I can't see anyone other on this position than Adriano and maybe Zlatan. 2nd striker who can play on wing which can be for me Figo, Jimenez and maybe Mancini?. And a 3rd striker technicaly strong, which for me is Balotelli, maybe Cruz and Zlatan.
This means we will see very rarely Adriano playing with Zlatan what some of us have dreamt about.
For me it looks either -Mancini-Zlatan-Balotelli- or -Mancini-Adriano-Zlatan-
So where will Crespo and Suazo play? I don't know, I don't see them on any of those positions thats why I think they should be sold. Even if there is still alot of potential in Suazo he should be sold as he doesn't suit our 433 strategy.
So the first 11 for me should look this way:
-J.Cesar-
-Maicon-Chivu -Samuel-Maxwell -
- Zanetti - Cambiasso - Muntari -
- Mancini - Zlatan - Balotelli -
But it hurts to see Cordoba, Vieira and Adriano benched.
And to mention defense. Let's hope that Samuel and Cordoba will get back to health and shape soon. Materazzi should get used to idea of sitting on the bench. And Burdisso? I don't really know, I would loan him for half a year to a club like Fiorentina as he is not that old yet, for him to get back shape, but if he will fail then we need to sell him as we don't have place in team for someone who makes so many mistakes in matches.
Yes, thats my vision of our team.