Matthijs de Ligt

If we signed him this summer he'd count as home grown & academy trained under the current rules upon turning 21.

I still don't see who'd leave though.
 
BlueDejong said:
or back 3 next season?
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If you have 5 CB's - 3 who cost 50m, 1 who cost 35 and was in the TOTY, and the other who is the captain - you sort of have to play 3 CB's every single week, and I can definitely see us using it more often, and formations like 3331, 343 that Pep used at Bayern+Barca, I cant see it every week. Plus he'd often use a fullback as one of the CB's in the back 3 so he could change to a back 4 without making substitutions.

I'm sure there's a plan though, I'm never really worried about our transfer business these days, it's basically a choice of "which world class youngster are we going to get".
 
domalino said:
If you have 5 CB's - 3 who cost 50m, 1 who cost 35 and was in the TOTY, and the other who is the captain - you sort of have to play 3 CB's every single week, and I can definitely see us using it more often, and formations like 3331, 343 that Pep used at Bayern+Barca, I cant see it every week. Plus he'd often use a fullback as one of the CB's in the back 3 so he could change to a back 4 without making substitutions.

I'm sure there's a plan though, I'm never really worried about our transfer business these days, it's basically a choice of "which world class youngster are we going to get".
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Maybe Stones out....
 
domalino said:
If we signed him this summer he'd count as home grown & academy trained under the current rules upon turning 21.

I still don't see who'd leave though.
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Am I right in saying he won’t take a squad space then? Under 21 so on the B list for CL at least. Or do you need to be at a club for a certain amount of time to count for that?
 
BlueDejong said:
Maybe Stones out....
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Eh I just don't see it. It's probably more likely than Otamendi or Kompany going, but I don't see Pep binning him.

He's only had 7 games since returning from injury. He played poorly in 3 or 4 of them, but are we really saying that those few bad games is all it takes to get the boot?
 
Trautmann's Chiropractor said:
Am I right in saying he won’t take a squad space then? Under 21 so on the B list for CL at least. Or do you need to be at a club for a certain amount of time to count for that?
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u21 for Premier League so he wouldn't count as a foreign player domestically, but for Champions League which requires you to be at a club for 2 years, he'd be A list.
 
Following on from the discussion above, have we ever had a season when we've actually had a surplus of established foreign players when naming the CL squad lists, or has injury/form seen to it that everyone has been included when the tournament recommences?
 
Gabriel said:
Following on from the discussion above, have we ever had a season when we've actually had a surplus of established foreign players when naming the CL squad lists, or has injury/form seen to it that everyone has been included when the tournament recommences?
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We had to leave players out when we were sanctioned by UEFA over FFP. Jovetic + Nasri.

Also Yaya was left out last season, but brought in for the second half of the season when Gundogan got injured.
 
domalino said:
We had to leave players out when we were sanctioned by UEFA over FFP. Jovetic + Nasri.

Also Yaya was left out last season, but brought in for the second half of the season when Gundogan got injured.
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Thanks for that. And this season Mendy was unavailable for the second half as well.
 
domalino said:
If we signed him this summer he'd count as home grown & academy trained under the current rules upon turning 21.

I still don't see who'd leave though.
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I think this is actually pretty significant. Having someone of de Ligt's quality/potential as club trained would be very nice. Question about CL rules. de Ligt turns 19 this August (12th). Rules state: "players who were on a club's books for three years between the ages of 15 and 21." So does that mean the cutoff date for the 3 years at the club includes the year leading to the player's 22nd birthday?
 
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