The Squad planning thread

[Gumzy97]

 

[vincent]

My young fella sent me it from Erlings Snapchat account?

Fair enough mate. But there has been a ton of fakes recently. As I said, tiresome.

 

[m32blue]

Rochdale got promoted didnt they,probably about his level

 

[Skrastins]

you know, i might imagine we could use him further up the pitch

he could be brilliant F9 tbh

 

[DMA's]

And that Rodri, is how you commit to your club!

Obviously he isn’t leaving but that is fake tbf

 

[CΛL]

And that Rodri, is how you commit to your club!

This fella loves the premier league, he’s not arsed about Spain. If he was he would never in a million years sign a 10 year deal. He wants Shearers record and then we might see him go.

Become a legend at one club or a Zlatan figure knocking about Europe, I know which I’d rather.

 

[Matt Diablo]

Bunch of fascists. Hope we sue the twats

 

[Dazzle84]

I still struggle to see the logic in selling Savinho unless we buy much more players than I realized.

Our current squad, strangely, is kind of anti-Maresca built.

We are loaded with attacking fullbacks who are good at holding the width, with many many central attacking players including "striker" type profiles in Marmoush and Semenyo who can play in a partnership

Whereas Maresca, atleast so far like Pep, wants wide wingers, 1 fullback back and 1 tucked in.

If you start all 4 of Haaland, Doku, Cherki and Semenyo who are the backups?

Savinho is literally THE only backup to the 2 wide players.

And then we have like 3 options to rotate the middle 2 (Foden, Reijnders, Marmoush) which is overkill.

If we played 4222/4321 the squad is made for it, but we aren't built for 3241, and selling Savinho puts us even further behind having a squad for it.

I think Marmoush and Reijnders will be off. Semenyo will be Haaland's deputy and he's shown he of much more effective out wide than Marmoush has ever been

 

[CΛL]

I think Marmoush and Reijnders will be off. Semenyo will be Haaland's deputy and he's shown he of much more effective out wide than Marmoush has ever been

Wouldn’t be surprised if we laid £80m or so for Kroupi considering the links. More capable of playing out wide and also a good false 9 option versus Marmoush who very much just likes to get in behind.

 

[Dazzle84]

Not sure it’s that anti Maresca, Nunes can and has played as a full back back with 2 centre backs before and the right back we seem to want could be chosen for that, O’Reilly is ideal for the inverted full back role. Anderson ,Rodri, Gonzalez are all fits for the 2 CM, maybe Foden too. The 10 could be Cherki or Foden.
It’s the forward that seem least suited to me, if Savinho goes we don’t really have wide wingers and Haaland isn’t really the player drop deep,Marmoush doesn’t seem to fit at all. So will be interesting who we replace Savinho with and whether we replace Marmoush or how we use him if not.

Interestingly some of Haaland's best performances, especially in the early part of last season, featured him dropping deep and getting involved. I don't think he'll ever be as good at it as Kane, but I think he's still got some potential to develop that game to our benefit

 

[blueparrot]

Interestingly some of Haaland's best performances, especially in the early part of last season, featured him dropping deep and getting involved. I don't think he'll ever be as good at it as Kane, but I think he's still got some potential to develop that game to our benefit

You would think it would be good for him not so much in link up but dragging fegenders out for him and the wingers to burst in behind

 

[citizen_maine]

And that Rodri, is how you commit to your club!

It's almost as if one has a 10 year contract, and the other is currently negotiating a new one

 

[bell_mcfc]

you know, i might imagine we could use him further up the pitch

he could be brilliant F9 tbh

I always thought he really is suited better as a 8/10 and probably more a 10/F9 like you say. Here though that will never happen. He great in tight spaces/in the pocket.

If he wants to stay here a squad player then fair enough he’d be brilliant for that. But he got hardly any minutes this year and imagine he’ll want to go.

 

[richards30]

Rodrygo rumours running again……

 

[ALDN_Ko]

Rodrygo rumours running again……

From who?

 

[robbieh]

We've lost one bench warmer, Stones and one starter Bernardo.

We are happy with the defence, and we are happy with the attack.

Unless we are going to bench Rodri, Doku, Nunes and Semenyo then we are not buying starters apart from Bernie's replacement.

The question is what to do with players who've been getting little game time. Lewis, Savinho, Ake, Marmoush, Trafford, Reinders and Gonzalez

 

[Gabriel]

Rodrygo rumours running again……

Which is more than the player can do…

 

[ALDN_Ko]

If Rodri goes, we won’t be winning the league or UCL next season. Too much change experience and pitch wise

 

[richards30]

From who?

Couple of Madrid based journalists

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Rodrygo rumours running again……

He tore his ACL in March, no one will touch him until January at least