Time to ditch 4-3-3?

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Or should we call it 4-6-0 ? Yeah that's probably another argument......

ANyway IIRC, 4-3-3 started when AW decided to experiment with 4-5-1 to see if it could be the panacea to our underwhelming results in Europe. It worked like a charm (we reached our first and only CL final largely because of that formation) and AW went further to see if 4-5-1 would work in the EPL. Anyway post-Henry it morphed to its final form of 4-3-3 and that brings us to today.

Now it’s been utterly woeful (both result wise and visually) Post-Fab with this formation. I mean some will say the rot in this formation started even while Fab was here, but again that's not the crux of this post- the question is what do we do now?
Do we persist with this formation, wait till January, buy some new players :chuckle: more suited to this formation; or do we ditch it and go to the trusted but less Euro friendly 4-4-2 ?

Now if we do go back to 4-4-2, is it another sign of retrogression on our part seeing as almost all the big boys in Europe play some form of 4-3-3/4-5-1 (especially as we pioneered it among the big boys in the EPL)?