According to the reporter of Mehr, recruiting and the way of recruiting players in Esteghlal can be a sign of the possibility of changing the basic system in this team and the new head coach’s approach to the 4-man and linear defense system. The system that has been around for 3 years is not used in Esteghlal.
For the first time, Andrea Stramaccioni, the former and Italian coach of the Blues, changed the Esteghlal system in the 19th season of the Premier League, and the Blues were able to present one of the most attractive football eras with the 2-5-3 method. After Stramachuni, the next coaches of Esteghlal, who were Fekri and Majidi, continued his path and did not change the basic system of this team, and finally Esteghlal won the Premier League championship 3 years after Stramachuni changed the system with Farhad Majidi. .
Majidi said goodbye to Esteghlal with the championship, and the Blues hired Ricardo Sapinto, the head coach from Portugal, to defend their championship position with this coach in the 22nd season of the Premier League.
Esteghlal Club, which is now preparing its team to participate in the 22nd round of the Premier League under the full supervision of this Portuguese coach, has an active presence in transfers. They definitely lost only 2 players so far, recruited 4 new players and renewed with a number of important players of the last season including Rafael Silva, Mehdipour, Motahari and Cheshmi, and only recruited one or two in order to maintain approximately Shakleh. Another player needs.
The Blues of the capital have so far recruited Reza Mirzaei, Sajjad Shahbazzadeh, Omid Hamedifar and Mohammad Hossein Zavarei, and it is said that people like Mohammad Naderi, Mohammad Mohebi, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini and Kaveh Rezaei are also in their shopping basket.
If the recruitment of Esteghlal is realized according to the plan, they will probably use a defender and a midfielder in their games instead of a winger, and maybe even use a striker in the attack line.
In the current inventory of Esteghlal, there is a right defender who had the best performance last season, and they hope that they will not have any problems for this position in the upcoming season despite the presence of Saleh Hardani.
They also recruited a fast and experienced Isfahani named Reza Mirzaei for the right midfielder position. Since last season, they have Subhan Khaqani and insist on recruiting Mohammad Mohebi. Having 4 players with the ability to play on the right side of the line shows the possibility of using two players simultaneously in each game for the right side, one of them should play in the defensive line and the other one should play in the midfield. Of course, the name of Kevin Yamaga should not be forgotten when mentioning players who specialize in playing on the edge of the line.
Independents on the left have similar conditions. They have Abolfazl Jalali and Jafar Salmani and they are looking to recruit Mohammad Naderi to have players on the left wing. With the explanation that Aziz Bek Amanov has the ability to play on the left side under certain conditions. Even if for any reason they are not able to attract Mohammad Naderi, they have a glimpse of using Mateen Karimzadeh in this area.
Apart from Motahari and Ramezani who are specialized players for playing at the tip of the attack (with different capabilities), Esteghlali added Sajjad Shahbazada and Kaveh Rezaei in their attack line. Playing at the tip of the attack, they can also play on the left and right sides of the attack line; so that there is no problem when using the 3-3-4 system.
We have to wait until the start of the season and see if Sapinto will transform the basic system of the Blues in the defense line after 3 years.