The problem is, as said numerous times, we don’t have the squad depth or quality to change formation too much without reinforcements
Blame butler as we have a total of 7 central midfielders on the books in a tight squad of players. nobody put a gun to his head and told him to put a squad together exclusively to play this formation. That’s on him.
You can’t say it’s not his fault when it was him who assembled the squad. 7 central midfielders is a joke in any squad at this level, but one of this size ?
Butler knew what he was doing and knew he had very few wide players, but went his chosen path and backed himself into a corner. No excuse as he could have easily have signed a few wide players and alternated between 442 and 433, but he went his own route and well and truly fecked it.
Thanks to Butler now we’ll have to get another manager in who’s going to have to deal and deal best they can to sort the squad out. I will however stress it wasn’t his fault he was offered that extension which was crazy to say the least.
