Bruno Guimaraes

[tommybooth]

As long as Bernie stays im not arsed.

 

[richards30]

As long as Bernie stays im not arsed.

Depends if his head is here mate? Wasn’t great last season to be honest and he needs to want to be here and not just here because he has no choice

 

[Keeper!]

But if Tolm reckons it’s 4 players then that would be a pretty big refresh in itself? As long as they are players who could come in and actually be good enough to start? For example, if Phillips goes and Bruno G or Neves come in then that’s a huge upgrade? Same if Gomez goes and Frimpong comes in then that’s a big improvement?

I hope it is, CM is the big one for me.

 

[Cityfan]

Teams have become stronger. Teams will strengthen once more in this transfer window. Haaland will still miss sitters, get injured and score boatloads. KdB has reached the twilight of his super-powers. From now onwards, it is downhill for him, accumulation of injuries and ageing. It is inevitable, injuries await him this upcoming season. Once he is out, Haaland's chances of ghosting and not getting service increases and he goes into a drought.

KdB is no longer in his 20s, his injuries take longer to recover from. He will take time to come to form once his injury free or if he comes back red hot in form, like last season, he will dip like he did once more.


The season has not even started and you think we are the favourites. Pride and arrogance comes before the fall. What you claim is not confidence, but arrogance.

United, thought they would always win the title, 10 year drought has really proven otherwise. Bayern won it on the last day in 2022/23 season and went to lose it in 2023/24, I am sure they were the favourites and they thought they would win it AGAIN.

We remove our foot off the gas, we will be dethroned and that is a fact. We can not be resting on past laurels and glory. We need to improve as our competitors are improving. I guess it is just the half EMPTY type of person in me talking and you are the half FULL type!

Personally I'm all for strengthening, and I'm not quite as negative on Kev. We don't know but after a rest from the Euros and a decent pre season he may come back strong next season.

More pertinently on being favourites. I don't perceive this as being arrogant it is factually accurate as far as the bookies are concerned.
We are not odds on which means the field is just about preferred over us , but we are clear favourites. It certainly does not mean we should be complacent and the odds may change significantly if we have not been seen to strengthen over the transfer window, currently though we are the ones to be shot at.

 

[Dax777]

I hope it is, CM is the big one for me.

Yup. Savio, Neves/ Bruno, Rodrygo/Wirtz/ Musiala will be the perfect trio for me.

Also, I think an evolution into a 3-6-1 is what's next on the card.

Our personnel suggests it:.

3 CBs, 2 DMs, 2 AMs, 2 Wide players, 1 Striker.

Potentially:

........................GK.....................
........AKanji...... Dias .....Gvardiol
..................Rodri......Neves..........
Rodrygo.....Foden..........Kev....Doku
........................Haaland..................

I think we'd look great like this:

I particularly like Rodrigo because he is one of the few get-able players who can play wide, at AM, or as the main striker. He too me is the perfect Alvarez upgrade.

If we get the above 3, we'd probably have to move Alvarez and Jack. As barring injuries, there won't be enough minutes.

The general goal for me is to have technically superior players on the ball most of the time. With aggressive attacking players out wide in Doku, Rodrygo, Savio and Bobb. Scoring AMs in Foden and Rodrygo and setup AMs in Bernardo and Kev. And great ball possessing DMs in Rodri Neves and. Kovacic, Nunez being the wild card. And Walker as a specialist RB for games against top teams.

My biggest pet peeve from the past season was too many technically weaker players (i.e defenders) constituting a majority of our time of possession with the ball. So is be happy to see that reduced drastically.

I feel this would be a strong squad able to challenge at home and in the Europe.



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[Shazza458]

Yup. Savio, Neves/ Bruno, Rodrygo/Wirtz/ Musiala will be the perfect trio for me.

Also, I think an evolution into a 3-6-1 is what's next on the card.

Our personnel suggests it:.

3 CBs, 2 DMs, 2 AMs, 2 Wide players, 1 Striker.

Potentially:

........................GK.....................
........AKanji...... Dias .....Gvardiol
..................Rodri......Neves..........
Rodrygo.....Foden..........Kev....Doku
........................Haaland..................

I think we'd look great like this:

I particularly like Rodrigo because he is one of the few get-able players who can play wide, at AM, or as the main striker. He too me is the perfect Alvarez upgrade.

If we get the above 3, we'd probably have to move Alvarez and Jack. As barring injuries, there won't be enough minutes.

The general goal for me is to have technically superior players on the ball most of the time. With aggressive attacking players out wide in Doku, Rodrygo, Savio and Bobb. Scoring AMs in Foden and Rodrygo and setup AMs in Bernardo and Kev. And great ball possessing DMs in Rodri Neves and. Kovacic, Nunez being the wild card. And Walker as a specialist RB for games against top teams.

My biggest pet peeve from the past season was too many technically weaker players (i.e defenders) constituting a majority of our time of possession with the ball. So is be happy to see that reduced drastically.

I feel this would be a strong squad able to challenge at home and in the Europe.



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If we got Rodrygo or Musiala this summer, I’ll run through Manchester Piccadilly naked.

That’s how confident I am neither will come

I agree with the post though

 

[Keeper!]

Yup. Savio, Neves/ Bruno, Rodrygo/Wirtz/ Musiala will be the perfect trio for me.

Also, I think an evolution into a 3-6-1 is what's next on the card.

Our personnel suggests it:.

3 CBs, 2 DMs, 2 AMs, 2 Wide players, 1 Striker.

Potentially:

........................GK.....................
........AKanji...... Dias .....Gvardiol
..................Rodri......Neves..........
Rodrygo.....Foden..........Kev....Doku
........................Haaland..................

I think we'd look great like this:

I particularly like Rodrigo because he is one of the few get-able players who can play wide, at AM, or as the main striker. He too me is the perfect Alvarez upgrade.

If we get the above 3, we'd probably have to move Alvarez and Jack. As barring injuries, there won't be enough minutes.

The general goal for me is to have technically superior players on the ball most of the time. With aggressive attacking players out wide in Doku, Rodrygo, Savio and Bobb. Scoring AMs in Foden and Rodrygo and setup AMs in Bernardo and Kev. And great ball possessing DMs in Rodri Neves and. Kovacic, Nunez being the wild card. And Walker as a specialist RB for games against top teams.

My biggest pet peeve from the past season was too many technically weaker players (i.e defenders) constituting a majority of our time of possession with the ball. So is be happy to see that reduced drastically.

I feel this would be a strong squad able to challenge at home and in the Europe.



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I also think many on here forget who are rivals are and it's not just in the PL.

Champions league like it or not is a major priority of the club and before Pep leaves I would think he would want at least one more CL medal in the bag to make his time with us legendary.

The signing of Mbappe makes Madrid much stronger and that young squad has another years experience under their belts.

We often looked leggy last season and uninspiring, Neves, Musala, Savio, Braithwaite and an emerging Bobb would be some exciting and athletic refresh.

Maybe Stefan Bowson's point about not splashing 100m on one player with this arbitration case still proceeding has a point, hopefully we are waiting for that to end before we start making serious moves in the market.

 

[Ajm1985]

Yup. Savio, Neves/ Bruno, Rodrygo/Wirtz/ Musiala will be the perfect trio for me.

Also, I think an evolution into a 3-6-1 is what's next on the card.

Our personnel suggests it:.

3 CBs, 2 DMs, 2 AMs, 2 Wide players, 1 Striker.

Potentially:

........................GK.....................
........AKanji...... Dias .....Gvardiol
..................Rodri......Neves..........
Rodrygo.....Foden..........Kev....Doku
........................Haaland..................

I think we'd look great like this:

I particularly like Rodrigo because he is one of the few get-able players who can play wide, at AM, or as the main striker. He too me is the perfect Alvarez upgrade.

If we get the above 3, we'd probably have to move Alvarez and Jack. As barring injuries, there won't be enough minutes.

The general goal for me is to have technically superior players on the ball most of the time. With aggressive attacking players out wide in Doku, Rodrygo, Savio and Bobb. Scoring AMs in Foden and Rodrygo and setup AMs in Bernardo and Kev. And great ball possessing DMs in Rodri Neves and. Kovacic, Nunez being the wild card. And Walker as a specialist RB for games against top teams.

My biggest pet peeve from the past season was too many technically weaker players (i.e defenders) constituting a majority of our time of possession with the ball. So is be happy to see that reduced drastically.

I feel this would be a strong squad able to challenge at home and in the Europe.



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Rodri dropping into the back 4 out of possession?

 

[xMatMcC]

The season has not even started and you think we are the favourites. Pride and arrogance comes before the fall. What you claim is not confidence, but arrogance.

In fairness to the lad, we are literally favourites. But the margin is a lot smaller than years past.

Implied probability of us winning the league according to bet365 sitting at 47.62%. Followed by Arsenal at 34.84%, Liverpool at 12.5%, and Chelsea at 4.76%.

We have been well above 50% likelihood in seasons past, so Arsenal have certainly narrowed the gap in quality. Going to be a great season.

 

[Dax777]

Rodri dropping into the back 4 out of possession?

Potentially. But preferably we reinvigorate our Frontline pressure defense that has dissipated a bit since the introduction of Haaland and Debryune aging.

In that Scenario we have 6 players in the oppositions half cutting down every lane and forcing them to go long... Akanji and Gvardiol are pretty fast for defenders. So that will be advantage to us.