The Squad planning thread

urban genie said:
Anyone else think balls to barcola and Diomanande and just go with McAidoo to replace Savinho.

they are just as untested in this league as this lad is
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Yes, but if Marmoush were to leave as well,would like somebody that could play across the front 3 as well,don’t know who but neither Barcola or Diomande.
 
balotelli's back pocket said:
Not interested in Cucurella, we have enough at left back even if Nico moves into midfield and he'd expect to start every week and expect a big wage which he just isn't worth.
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Are you saying your prefer 'Alt Nouri' who cannot defend to the current Spanish left back who can defend & will be 1st choice in the World cup.
 




Here are recent highlight videos comparing Diomande and Barcola for those interested.

What standouts to me is Barcola uses his speed across big distances to a great advantage for him... but you can see his dribbling and control is not elite, he often plays kick the ball and chase football you see kids play, and probably why he got replaced with the Georgian player (whose name I wont search to type).

Now look at Diomande his entire highlight reel is being surrounded and using tight dribbling to get out of it, what City deals with on the daily. Much better suited to us and the overall better player.
 
balotelli's back pocket said:
Not interested in Cucurella, we have enough at left back even if Nico moves into midfield and he'd expect to start every week and expect a big wage which he just isn't worth.
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I'm convinced Stephen Mfuni will be good enough to compete with Ait Nouri for the left back role allowing NOR to move into midfield. I know his loan with Watford was cut short due to injury but in the few games he played he was outstanding for Watford. One Watford fan on their forum said " The annoying thing is he's our best player and he's not even ours".
 
Ethan23 said:
I'm not sure if this has been discussed but the amount of money potentially we're gonna save with wages could be massive

Stones- 250,000
Silva - 300,000
Grealish - 200,000
Phillips - 150,000
Pep - 385,000 apparently

Whoever we bring in is unlikely to be on wages more than 200,000 a week.
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We also have to earmark some of that should we choose to renegotiate contracts with certain players.

2027
Foden
Rodri

2028
Gvardiol
Doku
Nunes
 
I can see us going huge this summer
Let’s say we sell the following
Marmoush £40m
Nico G £40m
Trafford £40m
Reijnders £40m
Ake £10m
Savinho £40m
Lewis £25m

Plus Grealish, Bah, Etcheverri, kovacic. Alleyne, akanji, labour,

That’s £225m with realistic fees. Maybe we won’t sell all of them but that’s a war chest before we add some
We could be looking at £400m
That’s two £100m players and maybe four £50m players

If we get it right (ala not Liverpool last year) we can really step up the squad.

Viana will be keen to build his squad
 
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Kroupi is having a meteoric rise and presumably wouldn’t be cheap. He’s unusual in that he appears to be a goal machine rather than a goal/assist player, which I imagine would bump his value even more.

Speaks French and Portuguese, I think, so would settle in well with Cherki/Ait-Nouri and Nunes/Dias. Just realised that he would have been a teammate of Benjamin Mendy at Lorient, small world…
 
Tb1981 said:
I can see us going huge this summer
Let’s say we sell the following
Marmoush £40m
Nico G £40m
Trafford £40m
Reijnders £40m
Savinho £40m
Ake £10m
Savinho £40m
Lewis £25m

Plus Grealish, Bah, Etcheverri, kovacic. Alleyne, akanji, labour,

That’s £275m with realistic fees. Maybe we won’t sell all of them but that’s a war chest before we add some
We could be looking at £400m
That’s two £100m players and maybe four £50m players

If we get it right (ala not Liverpool last year) we can really step up the squad.

Viana will be keen to build his squad
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How many times are we selling Savinho? ;-)

We can’t be selling them all and we certainly can’t be losing value on so many.
 
Tb1981 said:
I can see us going huge this summer
Let’s say we sell the following
Marmoush £40m
Nico G £40m
Trafford £40m
Reijnders £40m
Savinho £40m
Ake £10m
Savinho £40m
Lewis £25m

Plus Grealish, Bah, Etcheverri, kovacic. Alleyne, akanji, labour,

That’s £275m with realistic fees. Maybe we won’t sell all of them but that’s a war chest before we add some
We could be looking at £400m
That’s two £100m players and maybe four £50m players

If we get it right (ala not Liverpool last year) we can really step up the squad.

Viana will be keen to build his squad
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Way too much churn with a new manager coming in , the squad has been rebuiltover the last few windows for a reason,not have have a massive reboot this summer. There may be one or two we would prefer not to do but the hope will be that we only need to bring in 2 or 3.
 
In the central defender area I think we are well covered with Gvardiol, Dias, Kush, Ghuei, Allenye and Reis

Left side also well covered with Nor and Ait Nori

On the right we need to reinforce, Hakimi would be a dream signing but Diomande seem a good, Livramento is good but far to much injured.

Anderson for Bernie seems to been the man all is talking about don't really know if any body can replace him can't name anybody I really think or would do that. Not that sure about this Anderson guy either. But what about Enzo Fernandez? Valverde in real?
Bergvall in spurs would be a cheap alternative

But if both Savinho, marmush is leaving we need wingers, Doue in psg would be a dream signing, but I really also would wish we go for Musiala or Olishe or both, Kroupi seems talented,
But I do think we need to buy a big name player to show the world we still got it even if Pep now has left, that we still get the big players.
 
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