Imagine loosing Robertson (will either be sold or be a bit part player due to age) Alexander-Arnold, Diaz, Jota and Nunez (will be sold to Napoli) in one window.
There’s nothing in that 5 above that worries me or makes me think they’ve improved on the 5 I mentioned.
People are shitting themselves for nothing.
Id take Wirtz in a heart beat and he is at least equal quality to the ones going
But what they may have done is replace quality with equal quality.....Kerkez has prem experience and looked good in a lesser team so he can improve again and has the traits that Robertson had
Frimpong aint TAA going forward ill give you that - TAA was poor defensively - Ive seen that Frimpong aint great either.
If they replace Nunez with Isak that is a huge upgrade - that is not even arguable
The issue I have is that if you look at who we are trying to replace or need to replace then its harder
KDB - ok you aint getting anyone his quality straight off - though if we had got Wirtz Id say you had the next best thing and someone who could become KDB levels - Cherki - is a complete Mavrick type player....could be the next Messi - could be the next Balotelli - it literally could go either way
Walker - we have zero replacement for
Gundo - reijnders - Looks absolute quality - great purchase
BUT - we need to replace at least one of our centre halves and that hasnt been done and we have no right back - if we can get at least a right back/defender in before the window closes Id say we were looking set but our list of defenders at present looks unbalanced:
Gvardiol - great player
Rico/Nunes - not good enough defensively either of them
Akanji - decent but seems to be going backwards and if that continues its worrying
Dias - great leader but form as been iffy for 12 months and could be exposed by having no right back
Stones/Ake - wont play enough games (esp Stones) to have an effect -
If Stones can stay fit this changes the whole complexion but how likely is that?
Alt Nouri - quality player - im presuming the back up for him is Nico OReilly - who is good enough against some teams but not against the best. ...id use Nico Oreilly in some games to give Alt Nouri a rest
Khusonov - looks good - personally id play him at fullback above Rico and Nunes but I can see why Pep wont...he cant play the attacking role...Id also be tempted to test him in some games by dropping Dias and playing him next to Gvardiol
Reis - an unknown