It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

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I really can’t see Phillips staying with us next season. It’s clear Pep has absolutely no faith in him. We’re playing Gundogan at 6 rather than him. With 4 games left of the season he hasn’t made a single league start which is astonishing for an England international. Said it before get rid of Phillips and bring back Lavia. He’d get 15-20 starts over the season.
 
JWCH-99 said:
I watched barrella yesterday against Roma and he was brilliant. If we need a Bernardo replacement this guy is the one. He’s everywhere around the pitch and aggressive in duels just like Bernardo. Mcallister again a proper replacement for Bernardo rather than a different player profile. Brilliant feat and dribbling also. The replacement for gundo whereas surely has to be frenkie de jong in terms of an intelligent player who can control the pace of the game and is reliable to keep the ball and pick the right pass.

For me as much as Bellingham is excited he isn’t really a natural replacement for Bernardo/gundogan like the two above could be. I would also argue the two aboves skill sets are more suited to a pep system and could play alongside kev without unbalancing the team.

Just my opinion though! Plus you could probably get both for the same as Bellingham alone! Viega/wirtz are Kev replacements or back ups and couldn’t play in midfield with kev in the big games- you’d be leaving Rodri by himself.

Rice is a non-starter. He’s a back up for Rodri only and why even if Phillips leaves would you spend 100m for a backup. Not good enough to run a midfield like Gundo or technical enough to be a Bernardo replacement
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pavelsrnicek said:
I really can’t see Phillips staying with us next season. It’s clear Pep has absolutely no faith in him. We’re playing Gundogan at 6 rather than him. With 4 games left of the season he hasn’t made a single league start which is astonishing for an England international. Said it before get rid of Phillips and bring back Lavia. He’d get 15-20 starts over the season.
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He has to go, complete disaster buy and said it would be last summer. Those who were for it suggested he would push rodri and be competition for him. I don’t think there’s a player in the world better than Rodri at what he does
 
Mad 4 It said:
He has to go, complete disaster buy and said it would be last summer. Those who were for it suggested he would push rodri and be competition for him. I don’t think there’s a player in the world better than Rodri at what he does
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except Gundogan. :-)
 
leo_city said:
Raphael Guerreiro would be an excellent signing for this team, on a free, plenty of experience and can play inverted. Only a case of whether we want someone younger and more physical maybe
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He can play centre mid or at left back. He sounds perfect for the fullback/CM hybrid role. Admittedly I haven't seen much of him outside the odd Dortmund game, but on a free it sounds insane his name isn't even being rumoured.
 
Semper aggressus said:
I assume the club has a number of midfield options, should Gundo and/or Bernie leave. Hopefully neither do but we will have planned for that scenario, I can’t see us suddenly thinking oh shit we‘re short in midfield. Our squad is already too small.

Worst case scenario would be Bellingham to Madrid, MacAllister to scousers, Rice to Arsenal and de Jong to rag scum. But there must be better options for us than Gravenberch if that happens.

I still think we’ll buy Maddison, not saying I want him or need him but he seems the sort of decent-ish on his day player that Pep could significantly improve.

Unless Phillips seriously improves though we still need someone high quality to play when Rodri is rested/out.
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Gravenberch is bollocks, dreamed up by those transfer frauds Tom Hopkinson and Dan King.
 
richards30 said:
Is Gvardiol still high on the list mate?
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Yes. As is Bellingham.

West Ham want Phillips and if he asks to go, we won't stand in his way.

If that is the case and Bellingham opts for Madrid, then we can't discount Phillips being in the equation for a Rice transfer.

Pep is a huge fan of Rice also.

Phillips and £50m might be enough?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Yes. As is Bellingham.

West Ham want Phillips and if he asks to go, we won't stand in his way.

If that is the case and Bellingham opts for Madrid, then we can't discount Phillips being in the equation for a Rice transfer.

Pep is a huge fan of Rice also.

Phillips and £50m might be enough?
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Should be mate! I like Rice to be honest, could certainly add some steel in the midfield for us and seems to push on further forward at times for England? Added advantage of being able no doubt to play CB as well and DM? Would we still go for another midfielder though?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Yes. As is Bellingham.

West Ham want Phillips and if he asks to go, we won't stand in his way.

If that is the case and Bellingham opts for Madrid, then we can't discount Phillips being in the equation for a Rice transfer.

Pep is a huge fan of Rice also.

Phillips and £50m might be enough?
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Id be more than happy with that.

Still need a MacAllister though ;-)
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Yes. As is Bellingham.

West Ham want Phillips and if he asks to go, we won't stand in his way.

If that is the case and Bellingham opts for Madrid, then we can't discount Phillips being in the equation for a Rice transfer.

Pep is a huge fan of Rice also.

Phillips and £50m might be enough?
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If we get down the the basics.. all 3 of Pep's systems have had 1 weakness.. counter attacks.

Rice is very good against counter attacks.. so he may not be great going forward as Frenkie or orchestrating an offense like Rodri but he can definitely do a job in our defense and also act a second pivot.

Add to that he's tall and physical.. and it seems to be playing into what we're going for at the moment.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Yes. As is Bellingham.

West Ham want Phillips and if he asks to go, we won't stand in his way.

If that is the case and Bellingham opts for Madrid, then we can't discount Phillips being in the equation for a Rice transfer.

Pep is a huge fan of Rice also.

Phillips and £50m might be enough?
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They are interested in Palmer too correct?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Yes. As is Bellingham.

West Ham want Phillips and if he asks to go, we won't stand in his way.

If that is the case and Bellingham opts for Madrid, then we can't discount Phillips being in the equation for a Rice transfer.

Pep is a huge fan of Rice also.

Phillips and £50m might be enough?
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If Phillips goes and we sign Rice as a alternative to Bellingham, any word on if Lavia will come back?
 
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