Quote Originally Posted by tomu741 View Post
same here. Anyway if you have 3 positions, that player would be better only at one position.
I am not comparing dl with aml, i'm comparing dl with dml. Very similar position but dml will have less defensive and more offensive responsibilities but for me anyway same player. When someone plays 4-2-3-1 for example with dl/dr and change their formation to 3-5-2 so anyway those dl/dr would become dml/dmr.
Anyway positions which doesnt exist here are lam ram and cf.
You talked about sweeper - i dont think that here exist such a role.
In my opinion they can introduce player roles and that would be more interesting.
Actually, I never said you compared DL with AML. I said that it is now possible for a DL to also play alongside a ST (when you put him in the same line with ST and when he has 3 positions DL, ML, AML). And in the real world, the players who can do that are not many and common. The distance is just too long.

Now concerning the sweeper, I did not say it ever existed, though I have read in this forum that when you put the central DC closer to the GK with blue arrow, he acts like a sweeper. Many people believe that but I do not. Even if it did, it would be wrong, the sweeper is not an ordinary DC, he has his own role. And as long as the arrows matter, they were never made for a DC with red arrow to "be" a DMC, it just makes him more "attacking". (that is just an example, people tend to say that when you put arrows you kind of change his role, a DC with red arrow -> DMC, a ML with red arrow -> AML, a MC with blue arrow -> DMC, etc., when clearly that is not the case)

By the way, never mind the colors of the arrows I describe above, I simply call them as they were back in the old days.