Originally posted by Ghermez Agha
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Teaching somebody to THINK as a central midfielder when their entire youth and senior career has been about trying to improve their play as a CF is not just "up to the player". Its not like hitting weights which is something anybody can get bette at. You either have that skillset or you dont. If currently Allahyar, with fairly straightforward link-up tasks of bouncing the ball back to a midfielder while under pressure from a cb, or playing a quick 1-2 with a winger, has a pass success rate of around 50% regularly, what will happen when he is asked to collect and distribute 50 balls a game under pressure?
Ghoddos and dejagah from the beginning were 2 extremely technical, extremely high IQ/tactically aware players, trained from the beginning in euro environment. Their positional adaptability doesnt apply to every player. Even amiri is an extremely intelligent player.
Allahyar is a purely instinctual/physical player. He actually didnt even have any formal training in academy football, etc until daei found him for Saipa, and even then it was nothing more than a few sessions with senior team. According to Chamanian, he prepped for U17 WC by training in his local park. How can that be compared to football education of ghoddos and dejagah lol. Quite literally the best moments Allahyar shows are when he is not thinking excessively and relying on his instinct. By contrast as soon as he has a lot of time on the ball/time to make decisions he often still makes wrong ones. If you try to transform him now, you will derail his progress as an attacker and make him a very confused midfield player that is of hardly any use to anybody.
By contrast, with some work on the first things I mentioned, he can develop into a PL caliber attacker in just a year or two. That is how strong he is instinctually, in terms of his speed to beat defenders, in terms of pressing ability, etc
By the way, this doesnt negate some of your guys points that we lack personnel in CM. But the way to address that isnt to try forcing our best talents in other positions to play CM. Even dejagah's transformation to an attacking mid came after knee injuries when he was physically unable to play as a winger with the same speed/aggressiveness as before. It was a change by necessity, and even that at club level he was never regarded as a CM option.
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