we don't need someone to walk into our first team! we have rodri!that can walk into our first team
Dias got injured and we had Stones and Laporte… I don’t know where you got the idea that Tchouameni would cost as much as Napoli wanted for Koulibaly or Sevilla for Kounde. I don’t think there is anything controversial with saying we need to make an invest in a DM. I am not saying “pay what it takes to get Rice or Kimmich”. We could get Tchouameni for a decent fee (for us)then you play the 30m guy! what is this fucking argument. you can't have insanely expensive players as subs in every position there's not enough money! I am shocked that this simple fact is so controversial.
Dias got injured, what happened? we played Ake, and he's turning out just fucking fine, didn't need Kounde or Koulibaly for another 80m to play 4th choice.
then you play the 30m guy! what is this fucking argument. you can't have insanely expensive players as subs in every position there's not enough money! I am shocked that this simple fact is so controversial.
Dias got injured, what happened? we played Ake, and he's turning out just fucking fine, didn't need Kounde or Koulibaly for another 80m to play 4th choice.
We have a serious disagreement with this and I don’t think we will ever settle it lol. Our squad is built with players that can walk into the first team at any time without a drop in quality. Pep has made this clear in interviews and this is made clear in the books written about him. I personally would prefer that he accepted a few more players to allow for more rotation considering we usually get very close to playing all the games we could in a season. I think this is where you are as well. “We have Rodri” doesn’t mean anything. We can’t get by a season having one DM we can trust and having another just sitting there to take over if needed. If Pep could play Fernandinho more and give Rodri more time to rest, he absolutely would, because his form often suffers from playing too much. It may have well been the reason he didn’t play that Champions League final; his form at the end of the season wasn’t the best. So we do need a player that can not only take over from Rodri if he gets injured, but also if there is a drop in form, and I’ll go beyond, maybe naturally even take over the position if that player is to excel and give Rodri something to worry about. At some point most of our players are subject to becoming “bench players” for a period of time (Sterling, Cancelo, Stones, Laporte, Gundogan, Zinchenko, Jesus, to name a few…), and it may be the situation with Dias now. The only position we could afford to say “we have X” and only need a backup is goalkeeper but look what it’s cost us…we don't need someone to walk into our first team! we have rodri!
you guys had to watch fernandinho for 5 games this season and it freaked you out so bad lol. just take it easy.
What you're not getting is lowering the player gene pool. Both Stones & Aké were bought with the intention of playing. Once there, player form determines who's a starter & who's a sub, just as it should do.then you play the 30m guy! what is this fucking argument. you can't have insanely expensive players as subs in every position there's not enough money! I am shocked that this simple fact is so controversial.
Dias got injured, what happened? we played Ake, and he's turning out just fucking fine, didn't need Kounde or Koulibaly for another 80m to play 4th choice.
We had one suspicious link to Nunes from a Portuguese newspaper. It’s the Nuno Mendes story again, I’m not ready to buy it. I also don’t think he is a good enough player for our team at this point. My opinion of course. Again, whoever we bring isn’t “backup”, that CONCEPTUALLY doesn’t exist with Pep.i mean you've literally mentioned Nunes which we have the porro thing so a deal can be made there. also I don't fucking know, I am not a scout. all I know is that i'd like the money to be reserved to other stuff and strengthening our best 11, a backup CDM as you've seen basically in every single season under pep barely gets playtime.
Agreed. Over the 2 matches with Sporting, I only noticed Mendes because everyone kept going on about him. I saw nothing of note to pique my interest. However I've never seen him play before or since.We had one suspicious link to Nunes from a Portuguese newspaper. It’s the Nuno Mendes story again, I’m not ready to buy it. I also don’t think he is a good enough player for our team at this point. My opinion of course. Again, whoever we bring isn’t “backup”, that CONCEPTUALLY doesn’t exist with Pep.
You keep talking about us having bigger priorities, I’m curious as to which they would be
but you're advocating for the exact opposite of that. you're saying "well there is no one else on the market so we have to throw another 70m on a backup CDM". insane to me.I'd rather miss out, mend & make do with the players we have until the right players come along, rather than buying filler crap like we did when Marwood was our DoF & throughout Pellegrini's reign.