If Bastoni was to actually go to Real Madrid, do you thibk it would be a good moment to start playing with 4 defenders?
I know Bastoni won't go, his agent said he will remain, but if this investigation goes further, maybe leaving Inter and Italy could be best for both parties (especially if we get a hefty sum back for him).
At that point, would start playing 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 a good choice, bringing us more in line with other european giants? We could have Thuram as a LW in the first case or Lautaro as a 10 in the latter. The 4-3-3 allows us to keep playing with our 3 midfielders, amd when we attack now we often find ourselves having the wingbacks up as basically wings (when the ball is on the left, Dimarco i basically a LW, Dumfries was a RW and Lauti and Thuram in the middle), so some ideas we could recycle. And I think Bastoni is the biggest obstacle to leaving the 3atb modules. It will be needed to see where Dimarco would go in this, but as a LB with license to go up the field he would have a very similar role to now, if needed. Then this could unlock Luis Henrique (if wee have to keep him) by making him play his true role, and Thuram has played as a LW sometimes in his NT iirc. As a 10 in the 4-2-3-1 we could go Lautaro, Sucic or somthing like that. For the right side, we have noone right now, so we are not limited by personnel, since we have to buy it anyway.
Or maybe 4-3-1-2 with the fullbacks that can go all the way, like the wingbacks now, Lautaro and Thuram as strikers, with Sucic as a 10 (or Lauti as a 10 and Thuram and Pio as strikers), with the 3 midfielders being a certainty.
And if I'm not mistaken Chivu has played similar modules at Parma and with the Inter youth squads.
What do you think?