Rob Gutman

It's a dual striker system, really, a split striker system.

But in the best of those systems I grew up watching and that prevailed into the 90s and the early part of this century under Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger,

were sides that had one elite wide man.

And we start with the Dow Glitch team of 88, which had John Barnes coming off the left.

And then Wenger had, as you just said, referenced famously Robert Pires and Ferguson famously Ryan Giggs.

Those systems were just inherently lopsided.

You knew which side you were going to be attacked down.

But what it did was leave space on the other side for, in the Liverpool team, Ray Houghton, in the Arsenal team, Freddie Jungberg, in the United team, Beckham, Young C. Park, players who were then able to wade in with significant amount of goals without being orthodox wingers.

Yeah, I think a lot of the type of football we're talking about, the Youngbergs, Beckhams, Youngsea, Parks, Greyhounds, they're all frustrated centre-mids.

Well, they are.

I mean, many of them literally said, I wish I could play centre-mid.

Beckham would always talk about it.

I think Houghton had played centre-mid, I think, in previous clubs.

So, I mean, if you're looking at Liverpool's current pool of player, there are a number of them who could do the job well.

I think Dominic Sobislai could do the job.

It depends which side you want to put the winger on.

I think Ryan Gravenberg could be coached into doing it.

I mean, you might throw the name Cody Gappo at me.

I think that player has to have... Well, let's put it this way.

I think that it really has to be a running man, a man who really just enjoys the sheer exercise of breaking lines and having the biggest pair of longs on the pitch.