It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[Gumzy97]

If Sterling goes with jesus we will replace them as our resident ITKs have hinted at.

Leao fits perfectly, Mendes client so he will do his magic , fast and good technical winger. That can be creative as well perfect fit for us

 

[Gumzy97]

this source has been a hit and miss - but he has been decent recently

I don't think but I might be wrong, he has got a transfer story wrong this window. He's been bang on with everything

 

[handsofstone]

We do. Only in the sense we are 3 club trained players short. Even with a full capacity of 21 others, we are still 3 players shy. But that's a long term thing to resolve. Hopefully the likes of Palmer Kayky and Lavia soften that over the coming years.

Curious to know who has a bigger squad than us

United maybe? Think that shows how having a full squad of 25 doesn't mean anything, just end up filling the squad with crap

Madrid? But they've let loads of deadwood leave in Bale, Isco, Marcelo etc.

Eddie/Steffan/Carson - Perfect

Dias/Stones/Laporte/Ake - Happy happy joy joy

Walker/Cancelo/Cucurella - so much talent, and that's without considering Zinchenko who may not leave or Ake who has filled in there

Rodri/Phillips - Smashing

KDB/Bernardo/Gundo - Again, quality over quantity, are we going to spend another £60mil for a backup players....no (also what avenue is there for youth like McAtee if we dont)

Foden/Grealish/Mahrez - Quality again, and that's assuming we sell BOTH Sterling and Jesus and bring in NO-ONE

Haaland/Alvarez - wow!!

This obsession with 25 squad players doesn't make any sense to me, would you want to buy someone like Sarr for £30mil for the wings with Palmer on the books?

Should we buy James Ward-Prowse as 4th choice?

What abut the loan army, shall we get a 3rd choice RB when Couto, Kabore or the EDS guys

As per whoscored, looking at players who played more than 450 minutes (5 starts) in their respective elegies

Us - 18 players
Madrid - 18 players
United- 18 players
Liverpool - 19 players
Spurs - 20 (Inc Ali who left) players
Arsenal - 20 players
Chelsea - 21 players
West Ham - 17 (they had Europa commitments too)
PSG - 22 players

Do we really need a full squad of 25 senior players when it's likely that 5 to 7 of then aren't going barely feature?

Even if you consider us selling Jesus Sterling and Zinchenko (with Philllips & Cucurella joining) we still have 17 QUALITY players for 10 outfield positions, and then you have Palmer, McAtee, Lavia, Delap, Kayky, Egan-Riley etc. from the EDS or Rosa, Herrera, Kabore, stevanovic, Couto from the loan army

 

[Keeper!]

If Sterling does shoot off (as looks likely) and if we could sign anybody, Leao would be the one for me.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

is raphinha good enough for us ? genuine question as I didn't watch him / leeds enough

Be a very similar level to when we took Mahrez from Leicester & that turned out well, he’s 25 & a bit more versatile than Riyad

 

[mancityscot]

my personal views towards sterling (right or wrong) are somewhat clouded by the past 2 years where i feel he has largely underperformed for us. I'm definitely of the impression that if we can get circa £50 million for him it would be great business. We want players who want to be here at the end of the day!

 

[razman]

I don't think but I might be wrong, he has got a transfer story wrong this window. He's been bang on with everything

yup

 

[bell_mcfc]

Yes please

Should we buy James Ward-Prowse as 4th choice?

 

[Jokithedruid]

If Sterling goes with jesus we will replace them as our resident ITKs have hinted at.

Leao fits perfectly, Mendes client so he will do his magic , fast and good technical winger. That can be creative as well perfect fit for us

He certainly fits if we want to change the way we play with wingers narrow and overlapping full backs. If we buy him we could move Foden to rw or cm and have Leao/Grealish as lw and Mahrez/Foden(Palmer) as rw.

I do wonder though: if we are to believe our resident itks, then the replacement for Sterling is going to be someone that is a BIG name. Would we consider Leao to be that? I believe that Blue oli is hinting at Neymar.

 

[Coatigan]

The Leao story seems to be a totally made up fantasy by his agent & co, imo.. Why would we need another 100 mil left sided player?

I agree, it would take at least that to land him, and I just don't see the club paying it, even if we were to get 100m for Sterling and Jesus. Plus it would be a long drawn out haggle. A new contract gets mentioned too many times with this story for it not to seem like someone is fishing.