blueparrot
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Let's not fight then, better just hideaway in the corner.
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Alexis Sanchez
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J_MCFC21
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Nobody seems to mention Dybala. That because he is a no go?
Exeter Blue I am here
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Yeah, Dembele or Mbappe would be the preferred alternatives but not sure either are attainable/affordable this summer. Leaves us a bit of a problem if Sanchez does go to PSG. Wonder if it could even lead to a rethink on Iheanacho?!
I think it has to Ric. Fine young player though Gabriel Jesus is, I'm far from convinced that he could fill the role of a conventional centre forward to a sufficiently high degree, week in, week out, in the event of any prolonged absence to Sergio, without some form of help. It's irritating if only because dealing with someone as consumed with bitterness as Wenger always had the potential to end up going nowhere, and it looks as though we may now be heading down that path. Have to say I'd be bitterly disappointed in Sanchez if he does decide to throw his lot in with PSG. It's a low profile league, vastly inferior to the Premiership, and surely there should come a point when it makes no real difference if you earn £275k a week or £400k a week, being a part of the biggest show in town has to be the bigger consideration.
The absurd transfer fee inflation of the last couple of months is perhaps something that no-one could have foreseen, or at least not to this degree, but if we finish the summer without recruiting a top striker and a top centre half, I would have to regard it as very disappointing and harmful to our chances of recapturing the title
simon23
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Plus you highlight the "next summer" bit however as has been said on other threads, we will prob spend in and around the £300mil figure this summer, hardly a shit one....
never said it was shit...
just that we have missed out (potentially) on a priority (option A) target
We needed fullbacks and it looks like we have got ones (though again we missed out on one of our targets)
What i am saying is that our targeting of players needs to be looked at as we have wasted time and, Im presuming, an awful lot of work, on a target from a club who were never ever going to sell to us. That time (and money) could have been spent elsewhere.....a centre half for starters (maybe it still will be now) or another young and up and coming player.
simon23
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Let's not fight then, better just hideaway in the corner.
actually lets just not look at him as a target and instead find the next Mbappe or go for a player who isn't being targeted by madrid and always was going to be
Exeter Blue I am here
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Nobody seems to mention Dybala. That because he is a no go?
I think he's a terrific player, but the way things are at the moment I doubt Juventus would take less than £100m for him, and with only 1 full back and 3 senior centre halves (and one of them a severe injury liability) I don't think we can afford that at the present
We want flexibility not a CF in my view.Nobody seems to mention Dybala. That because he is a no go?
toffee balls
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The world is not black and white , it is varying shades of grey.never said it was shit...
just that we have missed out (potentially) on a priority (option A) target
We needed fullbacks and it looks like we have got ones (though again we missed out on one of our targets)
What i am saying is that our targeting of players needs to be looked at as we have wasted time and, Im presuming, an awful lot of work, on a target from a club who were never ever going to sell to us. That time (and money) could have been spent elsewhere.....a centre half for starters (maybe it still will be now) or another young and up and coming player.
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People need to calm down on this "signing a world class player" issue we apparently have. Tottenham have shown that there is value out there if you act wisely. We have bought a lot of young players that can become world class. Sanchez is not going to give us many years service.
Mbappe could be world class but could equally flop. Pogba is inconsistent. Bale hasn't justified his fee. It's only really Ronaldo that was worth the purchase. Messi came through at Barca. The true world class players are few and far between. We are better forming a world class team by getting good options in every position.
We will score more with better full backs and concede fewer with better defenders. My concern remains our central midfield particularly a DM which we desperately need. Fernandinho has lost it for me already from where he was a couple years ago.
Sanchez would be a good signing of course but problems still exist elsewhere with our squad.
Mbappe could be world class but could equally flop. Pogba is inconsistent. Bale hasn't justified his fee. It's only really Ronaldo that was worth the purchase. Messi came through at Barca. The true world class players are few and far between. We are better forming a world class team by getting good options in every position.
We will score more with better full backs and concede fewer with better defenders. My concern remains our central midfield particularly a DM which we desperately need. Fernandinho has lost it for me already from where he was a couple years ago.
Sanchez would be a good signing of course but problems still exist elsewhere with our squad.
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