I think that we need to clear upi a few things here. It seems that some people are confused as to which player plays what position, and what their natural position is.
First of all, Mijatovic: He was never a striker until he came to Real Madrid. His pure natural position is in between the midfielders and the strikers. This is what he played in Partizan, this is aslo what he played in Valencia which made him the most expensive transfer that year. He sets goals up better than he scores them. His spot is just behind the strikers.
Drulovic: He is not a striker. He is a classic Krilo...a wing, streaking up and down the flank, with great speed and wonderful crosses.
Albert Nadj: Central Midfielder, leaning on defensive, but definitely in the centre of the field, anybody who would put him at left or right back should be shot.
Dejan Stankovic: Central Midfielder - attacking. This position was made for him. He is inneffective on the wings, but when given the option to use them coming from the centre he is amazing to watch. He played the number 10 in Red Star, he should be the General out there, never say die, doesn't stop running, brilliant at receiving and forwarding the ball. We need fluidity down the centre of the field. He can provide it. We are not the english, enough with the long ball crap. A match is won by whoever controls the middle of the field, not the wings.
Vladimir Jugovic: Should play just to the left of Stankovic in the attacking mid-field role. Makes for a wonderful second option, to move the ball from our end into the attack. Runs hard, always, and defends superbly. Should not be on the wing.
Slavisa Jokanovic: Central Midfielder - defensive. He is the last midfielder before the defence, should be 90% defensively orientated, could make the transition to defender without much difficulty. Talk about slow, he is the example, clumsy and his age is showing, however still entirely capable of putting in solid performances, excellent defending corners and set pieces.
so I think that this clears things up a little bit. Sakic, Djordjevic, Dudic, Krstajic are all great players, with ZERO experience on our NT though, good to come off the bench, but not play 90mins. As for Zeljko Petrovic, how can anyone in their right mind call him the best wing back we've ever had. WC 98 proved that he has no place on our NT, he defended poorly and had no discipline and was carded at inopportune moments. I'm glad I don't have to worry about Overmaars smoking by him.
Oh yeah, one more thing (sorry to make this so long) but for all those die hard believers in the 4-4-2. WAKE UP. We've been playing 4-4-2 forever and it has brought us NOTHING...NOTHING at all. It's time for a change...3-4-1-2 is the way to go, with evereone praying that our keepers play well, I would love to see the 3-4-1-2..
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