Quote Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice View Post
It's not so much a free role they play.... it's just a central position allows more room for moving around. You don't see the likes of Aguero tripping over Yaya Toure's toes because he is planted in the midfield area. They vary their play by coming short, dropping deep or going long as and when the situation requires and they are well equipped to do so. They move according to the play rather than the limitations in their game.

Like I've already said. If the suggestion here is that in giving Reus a free role, you are truly maximising his talents then insisting on him playing CF would appear strange. Positionally speaking, he would be much freer on the left where he can start from an area which is less occupied by the oppositions defenders and where you can really build up a run rather than receiving the ball and feeling the CB's breath on your neck. That is precisely why Cronaldo plays on the left for Real and it has not been criticised or questioned too heavily despite the player being a goal machine of a type we have seldom ever seen throughout history.
In this case, lets just agree to disagree.