@ all the rumors of players going to one team, then another, then another.
makes no sense for them to be dressing athletes
Oh and Del Bosque played Martinez at CF vs Italy and they won sooo maybe Pep will move him forward. (Btw I think the CB for Spain argument in null and void since Pique is the #1 CB....clearly its a weak area.) 
I didn't say Gotze would excel as a false 9, I said Javi should excel playing CB. He's played the position successfully at Athletic Bilbao & for the national team. Why go out & buy another CB when you have resources available on your team?
I never said Gotze would excel as a false 9, I said I liked the idea but after thinking about it more, I think he should do well. I think that's what Pep had envisioned all along when they xferred him to Bayern. Gotze has the same attacking ability as Messi. Plus he's played the false 9 role for the German national team & did fairly well (albeit for 3-4 games). He did great his first time out front against Kazakhstan back in March.
Mandzukic would see the bench, but Gotze, Ribery, Muller being supported by Kroos, Schweinsteiger, & possibly Thiago would be nice. It would also be similar to the style Pep played at Barca...
People making blanket statements without knowing these guys have already played well in those roles is down right silly. I guess it's hard to see when your too busy to put the controllers down...
It's all good though...Cheers.
I didn't say Gotze would excel as a false 9, I said Javi should excel playing CB. He's played the position successfully at Athletic Bilbao & for the national team. Why go out & buy another CB when you have resources available on your team?
I never said Gotze would excel as a false 9, I said I liked the idea but after thinking about it more, I think he should do well. I think that's what Pep had envisioned all along when they xferred him to Bayern. Gotze has the same attacking ability as Messi. Plus he's played the false 9 role for the German national team & did fairly well (albeit for 3-4 games). He did great his first time out front against Kazakhstan back in March.
Mandzukic would see the bench, but Gotze, Ribery, Muller being supported by Kroos, Schweinsteiger, & possibly Thiago would be nice. It would also be similar to the style Pep played at Barca...
People making blanket statements without knowing these guys have already played well in those roles is down right silly. I guess it's hard to see when your too busy to put the controllers down...
It's all good though...Cheers.
" emoticons. And I see the move of Gotze to a false 9 for Germany not because they really look to play that way in the future with him as the focal point of their attack, but to get practice to a potential match up (with Spain most likely) where they'f need to combat the opponents personel or tactics (Like Italy did recently in Brazil).) with the arrival of Martinez in the middle see it as a very strong case as to why they feel like moving him to CB is pointless as (regardless of how well he could play there and has in the past) again a better CB could be easily found with the resources Munich has at its disposal but a player to play in his role at DM simply can not (as Busquets isn't leaving Barca anytime soon). he cant beat him out? That's not a good look
