Surely if this happens, next season will be a season of transition. Getting rid of that many experienced players will take a few years to replace
Need to shift a good number of CBs, whether sales or on loan. With Doyle coming back from loan, we currently have 9 CBs, which is way too many.17 NHG:
1. Ederson
2. Ortega
3. Akanji
4. Dias
5. Gvardiol
6. Kush
7. Reis
8. Doku
9. Gundo
10. Kovacic
11. Nico G
12. Nunes
13. Rodri
14. Savinho
15. Bernardo
16. Marmoush
17. Haaland
4 HG:
1. Carson
2. Grealish
3. Stones
4. Ake
Key CT (or b-list):
1. Foden
2. Nico O
3. Lewis
4. Bobb
5. McAtee
On Loan
1. Walker
2. Perrone
3. Phillips
4. Wilson Esbrand
5. Jumah Bah
Echeverri (unregistered, TBD)
Fucking world class footballer on his day. Loved his performances stepping into midfield.I'm gutted about John, thought he would just run down his final year but he wants to go to the World Cup.
City have said bring us a club. Essentially a free transfer or paying a big subsidy towards his £250k a week wages.
If he's gonna come in with that negative attitude, then I don't think he's the lad for us!!He can't play left back and right back at the same time though
Doyle will be gone 100%.Need to shift a good number of CBs, whether sales or on loan. With Doyle coming back from loan, we currently have 9 CBs, which is way too many.
He's even openly said he wants to go.Doyle will be gone 100%.
This makes a lot of sense - I said last season when Pep was continually picking the older, trusted players that it was just to get the CL qualification. A lot of fans were dismayed at times that we were not an exciting watch. Pep knew that as a team we needed to evolve into a different way of playing - Many thought he'd become too bedded to the way we have played for a decade - To do that we needed a revamp of our midfield in particular.Being told ten out.
Here's my educated guesses?
Eddie
Ortega
Stones
Walker
KDB
Gundo
McAtee
Jack
One of Bernie or Kovacic
Nunes
Phillips
Surely if this happens, next season will be a season of transition. Getting rid of that many experienced players will take a few years to replace
We’ve had one bad season and now we’re apparently selling 10 players? Lots of them with all the experience, quality and leadership needed to win trophies
Maybe but probably 5 or 6 replacement's are already at the club, if you include Bah and the January arrivals. Not to mention Bobb, O’Reilly. Won’t all be succesful but thats 8 players all with a chanceIndeed, and there’s no guarantee that all replacements will cut the mustard either. However, the club might think it better to have the surgery rather than patch up and muddle on for another sterile season.
I suspect we’ll never see quite the same approach to team building again.
Perhaps having the group together very early for the world club championship will be a blessing and allow them to bed into new methods better.Regardless of how many go it’d be a season of transition - you only have to think ahead to a potential first day starting 11 to realise we will probably have a new keeper, 2 new fullbacks, and 2 new midfielders all starting.
Ugh. Go and get MGW please!
So be it. It’s an inevitable consequence of decisions either taken or not taken in the last two seasons, and no matter how much lipstick some choose to apply, last season was a prize pig. We’ve fallen way below our standards, and it might take another trophy-less season before we’re genuinely competitive across two fronts again. Recognising and addressing problems is the first step to June 5, 2027.Regardless of how many go it’d be a season of transition - you only have to think ahead to a potential first day starting 11 to realise we will probably have a new keeper, 2 new fullbacks, and 2 new midfielders all starting.
Keepers is an interesting one.Regardless of how many go it’d be a season of transition - you only have to think ahead to a potential first day starting 11 to realise we will probably have a new keeper, 2 new fullbacks, and 2 new midfielders all starting.
Just said same to my son, whilst having lunch. It’s definitely exciting, even Pep changing his management team too, feels like a new leaf being turned. Roll on mid August!Perhaps having the group together very early for the world club championship will be a blessing and allow them to bed into new methods better.
I find it all very exciting & hopefully all the new players coming in will have good footballing IQ as well as being younger.
I mean first day starting 11 of Prem season.Keepers is an interesting one.
We all expect at least one to leave, maybe even all 3.
But does that happen before the club world cup? Doubt it, tbh.
No I got that, I meant more on the context of the window, and Khaldoon's stated 'objective'.I mean first day starting 11 of Prem season.
Agreed. Exciting though.So be it. It’s an inevitable consequence of decisions either taken or not taken in the last two seasons, and no matter how much lipstick some choose to apply, last season was a prize pig. We’ve fallen way below our standards, and it might take another trophy-less season before we’re genuinely competitive across two fronts again. Recognising and addressing problems is the first step to June 5, 2027.
I sincerely doubt that's true. He's just not needed, especially for that kind of money.
Using our name and prior interest to flush out others.