The Squad planning thread

Our main struggle this year has been not having goals come from everywhere, only Haaland really has been a top goal scorer this season, last time our wingers scored was January and I believe Kovacic is our 2nd highest goalscorer.

This summer we need to add goals as well as stability, look at PSG their goals don't really come from midfield but the wing and full backs, if you cant get goals from the middle, then you need your full backs and wingers to chip in with goals and assists.

We are poor in that department, apart from Gvardiol when he's played left back there's not a consistent threat from out wide. Doku gets you out of your seat but he can't put the ball in the net consistently same with Savinho who has terrible finishing. Grealish can't score so you've got three wingers that don't produce the numbers needed. It can't be all on Haaland.

When Haaland doesn't score we haven't got that player/players to think oh Haaland hasn't scored but this player will. We used too with Sterling, Mahrez, Sane, Jesus they could pitch in with goals to help the team.
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
People that need to be moved on or Pep will play them over everyone new:

Akanji
Stones
Gundo
Kovacic
Bernardo

We have to create a scenario where the new guys can gel in.. not be treated like Nico/ Khusanov where they can't even get a game because Pep trusts the old guys.
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It's mad that the entire team that started the Inter game is still here, when not one of them is a better player than they were 2 years ago. In fact you'd be hard pushed to name the ones who haven't regressed for one reason or another.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
It's mad that the entire team that started the Inter game is still here, when not one of them is a better player than they were 2 years ago. In fact you'd be hard pushed to name the ones who haven't regressed for one reason or another.
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Its incredible to believe just how far they have regressed, they have regressed that much it's almost as if they are different players entirely.
 
Got ourselves in a right old pickle with squad . We should have let Bernie and Kyle go when they wanted to go. ( IF reports are to be believed)
I would try to move on the following
Kev already gone
Phillips
Walker
One of Stones or Ake
One of Kova or Bernardo
Gundo
Akanji
Calves out Jackie
( That would see 4 Homegrown or association trained players leave. So perhaps need to look at that.)
I would try to keep Ederson but he will probably go
Ortega .
I don’t know where this would leave us
But we need 2 full backs ( at least) and as settled a back four as possible.
There’s no replacement for KDB so we need to add creativity throughout. What a fucking job Hugo has walked into. Good luck to him. I don’t have a clue who would fit.
 
Marmoush Haaland

Rodrygo Cherki

Reijnders Rodri

Nouri Gvardiol Khusonov Munoz

Chevalier

85m Rodrygo
20m Cherki
65 Reinjders
40 Nouri
40 Munoz
40 Chevalier
That’s 295m
mexico1970 said:
It’s incredible to believe just how far they have regressed, they have regressed that much it's almost as if they are different players entirely.
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Ederson's smiley tattoo said:
In:
- Reijnders
- One of Gordon/Rodrygo/Barcola/Gordon/Nico Williams
- Xavi Simons
- Wesley
- Cambiaso
- Joan Garcia
- Backup GK if Ortega leaves

Out:

Whoever that can make the above transfers happen except the obvious ones
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Looks like a decent Europa league squad that.
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
People that need to be moved on or Pep will play them over everyone new:

Akanji
Stones
Gundo
Kovacic
Bernardo

We have to create a scenario where the new guys can gel in.. not be treated like Nico/ Khusanov where they can't even get a game because Pep trusts the old guys.
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tbf i think our back line has been overplayed and thus are error prone this season

Stones/Ake would be the ones who will go and alternative would be
Ousmane Diomande or Antonio Silva - Diomande only drawback is that would lose him for ACN
Gundo replacement is Reindeer

Bernardo replacement would be Rodrygo - fast, technical, hard worker
 
I'd be saying that Dias and gvardiol will be first choice centre halves next season so stones, ake and akanji if you're not happy only playing when one of them are injured, you should move on.
 
Outside the box thinking price (free), caliber (champions league and England international), HG and wages likely to be not extortionate Gomes from Lille soon to be free agent. Cover for Rodri and is a good age profile. Him being an ex Rag isn’t ideal but could help free funds to go after targets like Reindeer and Simons
 
philjoneswho? said:
Outside the box thinking price (free), caliber (champions league and England international), HG and wages likely to be not extortionate Gomes from Lille soon to be free agent. Cover for Rodri and is a good age profile. Him being an ex Rag isn’t ideal but could help free funds to go after targets like Reindeer and Simons
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I don't know who Gomes is but didn't we just buy cover for Rodri in the last window?
 
PragueBlue said:
I don't know who Gomes is but didn't we just buy cover for Rodri in the last window?
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Yeah little squirt who plays at Lille. With flexibility I know Gonzalez can play an 8 knowing Rodders could take some time to get up to speed we could do a lot worse. With him being free and English just seems a smart if not underwhelming move but frees cash for our true more expensive targets and satisfies our HG quota. Assuming most of Grealish, Walker, Phillips and maybe Stones leave in the summer.
 
It is interesting how today average to terrible players are sold for crazy amounts of money, unfortunately for us too (Phillips), but we alone are not able to take anything for our players, we are in a position today where it is impossible for us to sell Stones, Ake, Akanji, Grealish because nobody wants them and nobody needs them, conditionally speaking we can only give them away.
 
I think the players that we sign are going to make people gnash their teeth and say we arent serious or dont know what we are doing etc etc but viana has a reputation for signing unknown players and making them into absolute worldies, look at the players he has signed for sporting and where they are (god knows we could do with some of them), hopefully city are just cutting out the middle man and not having to sign these players for 80-100 million after theyve been somewhere else.
 
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