TT is always the answer, of course, but with the troubles we’re having finding the perfect left 8 I’d love to drop Santi Cazorla into our current team. Incredibly press resistant, works hard, and more than creative enough to make our left side as dangerous as our right.
To make it interesting I’ll choose from the 2010s onwards til now; Sanchez.
Sanchez + Jesus up top, Saka + Martinelli RW LW, Rice + Martin behind them… We’d win every game 5-4.
I love Martinelli, but Sanchez benches him easily. No way Sanchez is starting as a striker to accommodate him.
I don’t know if Sanchez would have the discipline and defensive effort to please Arteta to be honest.
Imagine the pressing from the front. Defenses would be terrified in possession.