PannickAtTheDisco
Well-Known Member
With the Txiki thread and a lot of people rightly/wrongly being critical of either elements of, or our entire transfer policy, I'd thought I'd let you all have a go at being in charge of our transfer policy (in hindsight) and have free reign to improve our squad in the same period Txiki has had to improve ours.
Now you may disagree over some figures but these are the rules:
1. All valuations & the budget are fixed, just take it on face value.
2. You will start with the 2013 (give or take) squad. So you will have the base squad of:
GK: Joe Hart RB: Pablo Zabaleta, Micah Richards LB: Gael Clichy, Aleksandar Kolarov CB: Vincent Kompany, Joleon Lescott, Matija Nastasic, CM: Yaya Toure, Javi Garcia, Gareth Barry, Jack Rodwell Wing: Scott Sinclair AM: David Silva, Samir Nasri, James Milner ST: Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko.
3. Your budget is around the figure Txiki has had since he joined, which is £400m.
4. You may remove any of the players in the base squad, but you will not get any added transfer budget, essentially you will cut them for free.
5. You can only use players from the following lists. This has been compiled as a non-exhaustive list of players the other top clubs across Europe signed in the same period. You can take as many players from any lists you like, they are listed for more convenience and practicality and you may feel they're better suited to another position etc.
So £400m, sign any of the following players and make the strongest squad. You can ignore FFP and transfer dates, this is just a bit of fun and debate on who you would pick.
GKs
Claudio Bravo MC £16m
Jan Oblak AM £13.5m
Petr Cech ARS £11m
Jasper Cillessen BAR £11m
Marc-Andre ter Stegen BAR £10m
Asmir Begovic CHE £9m
Keylor Navas RM £8.5m
Kevin Trapp PSG £8m
Willy Caballero MC £6m
Kiko Casilla RM £5m
Loris Karius LIV £5m
Michel Vorm TH £4m
David Ospina ARS £3m
Roman Burki DOR £3m
Sven Ulreich BM £2.8m
Pepe Reina BM £2.5m
Miguel Moya AM £2.5m
Laurentiu Branescu JUV £1m
Neto JUV Free
Alex Manninger LIV Free
Adam Bogdan LIV Free
Sergio Romero MU Free
Victor Valdes MU Free
RB
Danilo RM £26m
Calum Chambers ARS £17m
Matteo Darmian MU £15m
Nathaniel Clyne LIV £15m
Aleix Vidal BAR £14.5m
Sime Vrsaljko AM £13.5m
Mathieu Debuchy ARS £12.75m
Serge Aurier PSG £8.5m
Thomas Meunier PSG £6m
Kieran Trippier TH £4m
Douglas BAR £3m
Jesus Gamez AM £2m
DeAndre Yedlin TH £2m
Dani Alves JUV Free
Bacary Sagna MC Free
LB
Luke Shaw MU £27m
Alex Sandro JUV £22m
Layvin Kurzawa PSG £21m
Marcos Alonso CHE £19.5m
Abdul Rahman Baba CHE £17m
Marcos Rojo MU £17m
Alberto Moreno LIV £15m
Lucas Digne BAR £14m
Filipe Luis AM £13.5m
Ben Davies TH £10.75m
Raphael Guerreiro £10.2m
Juan Bernat BM £8.5m
Guilherme Siquiera AM £8.5m
Kenedy CHE £6.7m
Joo-Ho Park DOR £2.5m
Patrice Evra JUV £1m
CB
John Stones MC £47m
David Luiz PSG £42m
Shkodran Mustafi ARS £35m
Eliaquim Mangala MC £32m
Eric Bailly MU £30m
Mats Hummels BM £29m
Nicolas Otamendi MC £28.5m
Medhi Benatia BM £23m
Samuel Umtiti BAR £21m
Dejan Lovren LIV £21m
Jeremy Mathieu BAR £17m
Thomas Vermaelen BAR £16m
Daley Blind MU £14m
Toby Alderweireld TH £13.5m
Gabriel ARS £12.75m
Kurt Zouma CHE £12.5m
Stefan Savic AM £10m
Matthias Ginter DOR £8.5m
Federico Fazio TH £8.5m
Marc Bartra DOR £6.8m
Kevin Wimmer TH £5m
Michael Hector CHE £4.5m
Jesus Vallejo RM £4.25m
Daniele Rugani JUV £4.25m
Eric Dier TH £4.25m
Martin Demichelis MC £4m
Joe Gomez LIV £4m
Ragnar Klavan LIV £4m
Matt Miazga CHE £3.5m
Papy Djilobodji CHE £2.5m
Rob Holding ARS £2.5m
Joel Matip LIV Free
Jan Kirchoff BM Free
CM
Paul Pogba MU £100m
Asier Illaramendi RM £34m
Arturo Vidal BM £34m
Fernandinho MC £30m
Granit Xhaka ARS £30m
Ngolo Kante CHE £30m
Moussa Sissoko TH £30m
Andre Gomes BAR £30m
Renato Sanches BM £30m
Ander Herrera MU £29m
Cesc Fabregas CHE £27m
Marouane Felliani MU £27m
Morgan Schneiderlin MU £27m
Toni Kroos RM £25m
Thiago Alcantara BM £23m
Nemanja Matic CHE £21m
Grzegorz Krychowiak PSG £21m
Ilkay Gundogan MC £20m
Yohan Cabaye PSG £19m
Paulinho TH £17m
Ivan Rakitic BAR £16m
Lucas Silva RM £14m
Fernando MC £12m
Nuri Sahin DOR £12m
Sebastian Rode DOR £12m
Victor Wanyama TH £11m
Hernanes JUV £10m
Gonzalo Castro DOR £10m
Emre Can LIV £10m
Etienne Capoue TH £9m
Georges Kevin N'Koudou TH £9m
Giovani Lo Celso PSG £8.5m
Xabi Alonso BM £8m
Marco Van Ginkel CHE £8m
Joshua Guilavogui AM £8m
Bernard Mensah AM £8m
Fabian Delph MC £8m
Matias Kranevitter AM £7m
Mohamed Elneny ARS £7m
Bastian Schweinsteiger MU £6.5m
Joshua Kimmich BM £6m
Casemiro RM £6m
Benjamin Stambouli PSG £6m
Diogo Jota AM £5.5m
Augusto Fernandez AM £5m
Dele Alli TH £5m
Stefano Sturaro JUV £5m
Marko Grujic LIV £5m
Luca Marrone JUV £4m
Mikel Merino DOR £3m
Julian Weigl DOR £2.5m
Milos Jojic DOR £2m
Mario Lemina JUV £1.5m
Sami Khedira JUV Free
Mathieu Flamini ARS Free
Frank Lampard MC Free
AM
James Rodriguez RM £63m
Kevin De Bruyne MC £54m
Mesut Ozil ARS £42.5m
Juan Mata MU £37m
Mario Gotze BM £35m
Roberto Firmino LIV £29m
Miralem Pjanic JUV £28m
Arda Turan BAR £28m
Douglas Costa BM £27m
Isco RM £27m
Mateo Kovacic RM £25m
Adam Lallana LIV £25m
Georginio Wijnaldum LIV £23m
Christian Eriksen TH £11.5m
Luis Alberto LIV £7m
Shinji Kagawa DOR £6m
Nathan CHE £4.5m
Denis Suarez BAR £3m
WING
Gareth Bale RM £85m
Angel Di Maria MU £59.7m
Anthony Martial MU £53m
Raheem Sterling MC £44m
Leroy Sane MC £37m
Willian CHE £30m
Alexis Sanchez ARS £30m
Sadio Mane LIV £30m
Henrik Mkhitaryan MU £27m
Andre Schurrle DOR £27m
Erik Lamela TH £26m
Memphis Depay MU £25m
Juan Cuadrado CHE £23m
Heung-Min Son TH £22m
Nicolas Gaitan AM £22m
Pedro CHE £21m
Lazar Markovic LIV £20m
Simone Zaza JUV £15m
Jesus Navas MC £15m
Yannick Carrasco AM £15m
Alessio Cerci AM £14m
Nolito MC £13m
Patrick Roberts £12m
Mohamed Salah CHE £11m
Nacer Chadli TH £7m
Kingsley Coman BM £5.5m
Ji-Dong Won DOR £2m
ST
Gonzalo Higuain JUV £75m
Luis Suarez BAR £65m
Edinson Cavani PSG £56m
Christian Benteke LIV £32.5m
Diego Costa CHE £32m
Paulo Dybala JUV £32m
Kevin Gameiro AM £28m
Gabriel Jesus MC £27m
Roberto Soldado TH £26m
Alvaro Morata RM £26m
Wilfried Bony MC £25m
Paco Alcacer BAR £25m
Jackson Martinez AM £25m
Antoine Griezmann AM £24m
Stevan Jovetic MC £22m
Mario Mandzukic AM £22m
Jese PSG £21m
Alvaro Negredo MC £20m
Marko Pjaca JUV £19m
Ciro Immobile DOR £18m
Lucas Perez ARS £17m
Vincent Janssen TH £17m
Danny Welbeck ARS £16m
Mario Balotelli LIV £16m
Luciano Vietto AM £16m
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang DOR £12m
Loic Remy CHE £10.5m
Divock Origi LIV £10m
Raul Jimenez AM £10m
Clinton N'Jie TH £8m
Emre Mor DOR £8m
Carlos Tevez JUV £8m
Adrian Ramos DOR £7m
Iago Aspas LIV £7m
Ousmane Dembele DOR £7m
Leo Baptistao AM £7m
Danny Ings LIV £6.5m
Angel Correa AM £6m
David Villa AM £5m
Rickie Lambert ARS £4m
Samuel Eto'o CHE £2m
Didier Drogba CHE Free
Zlatan Ibrahimovic MU Free
Fernando Llorente JUV Free
Robert Lewandowski BM Free
So take your picks. Yes you can be silly and write down Lewandowski/Suarez/Sanchez/Willian/Hummels all in one side if you wish, but if you'd rather follow your original instincts on players and assemble a squad that would be good, particularly if you take into account e.g. "well, I'd have signed Frank for that season then that summer I'd have signed X instead of Y".
If you can then list your new squad with the base players you've kept + the new signings in bold, as well as the amount spent, then we can start comparing between people.
Should keep people busy instead of doing real work.
If they're any really obvious omissions from the teams above (City, Rags, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern, Barca, Real, Dortmund, Atleti, PSG & Juve) then you can add them in with their transfer fee.
Now you may disagree over some figures but these are the rules:
1. All valuations & the budget are fixed, just take it on face value.
2. You will start with the 2013 (give or take) squad. So you will have the base squad of:
GK: Joe Hart RB: Pablo Zabaleta, Micah Richards LB: Gael Clichy, Aleksandar Kolarov CB: Vincent Kompany, Joleon Lescott, Matija Nastasic, CM: Yaya Toure, Javi Garcia, Gareth Barry, Jack Rodwell Wing: Scott Sinclair AM: David Silva, Samir Nasri, James Milner ST: Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko.
3. Your budget is around the figure Txiki has had since he joined, which is £400m.
4. You may remove any of the players in the base squad, but you will not get any added transfer budget, essentially you will cut them for free.
5. You can only use players from the following lists. This has been compiled as a non-exhaustive list of players the other top clubs across Europe signed in the same period. You can take as many players from any lists you like, they are listed for more convenience and practicality and you may feel they're better suited to another position etc.
So £400m, sign any of the following players and make the strongest squad. You can ignore FFP and transfer dates, this is just a bit of fun and debate on who you would pick.
GKs
Claudio Bravo MC £16m
Jan Oblak AM £13.5m
Petr Cech ARS £11m
Jasper Cillessen BAR £11m
Marc-Andre ter Stegen BAR £10m
Asmir Begovic CHE £9m
Keylor Navas RM £8.5m
Kevin Trapp PSG £8m
Willy Caballero MC £6m
Kiko Casilla RM £5m
Loris Karius LIV £5m
Michel Vorm TH £4m
David Ospina ARS £3m
Roman Burki DOR £3m
Sven Ulreich BM £2.8m
Pepe Reina BM £2.5m
Miguel Moya AM £2.5m
Laurentiu Branescu JUV £1m
Neto JUV Free
Alex Manninger LIV Free
Adam Bogdan LIV Free
Sergio Romero MU Free
Victor Valdes MU Free
RB
Danilo RM £26m
Calum Chambers ARS £17m
Matteo Darmian MU £15m
Nathaniel Clyne LIV £15m
Aleix Vidal BAR £14.5m
Sime Vrsaljko AM £13.5m
Mathieu Debuchy ARS £12.75m
Serge Aurier PSG £8.5m
Thomas Meunier PSG £6m
Kieran Trippier TH £4m
Douglas BAR £3m
Jesus Gamez AM £2m
DeAndre Yedlin TH £2m
Dani Alves JUV Free
Bacary Sagna MC Free
LB
Luke Shaw MU £27m
Alex Sandro JUV £22m
Layvin Kurzawa PSG £21m
Marcos Alonso CHE £19.5m
Abdul Rahman Baba CHE £17m
Marcos Rojo MU £17m
Alberto Moreno LIV £15m
Lucas Digne BAR £14m
Filipe Luis AM £13.5m
Ben Davies TH £10.75m
Raphael Guerreiro £10.2m
Juan Bernat BM £8.5m
Guilherme Siquiera AM £8.5m
Kenedy CHE £6.7m
Joo-Ho Park DOR £2.5m
Patrice Evra JUV £1m
CB
John Stones MC £47m
David Luiz PSG £42m
Shkodran Mustafi ARS £35m
Eliaquim Mangala MC £32m
Eric Bailly MU £30m
Mats Hummels BM £29m
Nicolas Otamendi MC £28.5m
Medhi Benatia BM £23m
Samuel Umtiti BAR £21m
Dejan Lovren LIV £21m
Jeremy Mathieu BAR £17m
Thomas Vermaelen BAR £16m
Daley Blind MU £14m
Toby Alderweireld TH £13.5m
Gabriel ARS £12.75m
Kurt Zouma CHE £12.5m
Stefan Savic AM £10m
Matthias Ginter DOR £8.5m
Federico Fazio TH £8.5m
Marc Bartra DOR £6.8m
Kevin Wimmer TH £5m
Michael Hector CHE £4.5m
Jesus Vallejo RM £4.25m
Daniele Rugani JUV £4.25m
Eric Dier TH £4.25m
Martin Demichelis MC £4m
Joe Gomez LIV £4m
Ragnar Klavan LIV £4m
Matt Miazga CHE £3.5m
Papy Djilobodji CHE £2.5m
Rob Holding ARS £2.5m
Joel Matip LIV Free
Jan Kirchoff BM Free
CM
Paul Pogba MU £100m
Asier Illaramendi RM £34m
Arturo Vidal BM £34m
Fernandinho MC £30m
Granit Xhaka ARS £30m
Ngolo Kante CHE £30m
Moussa Sissoko TH £30m
Andre Gomes BAR £30m
Renato Sanches BM £30m
Ander Herrera MU £29m
Cesc Fabregas CHE £27m
Marouane Felliani MU £27m
Morgan Schneiderlin MU £27m
Toni Kroos RM £25m
Thiago Alcantara BM £23m
Nemanja Matic CHE £21m
Grzegorz Krychowiak PSG £21m
Ilkay Gundogan MC £20m
Yohan Cabaye PSG £19m
Paulinho TH £17m
Ivan Rakitic BAR £16m
Lucas Silva RM £14m
Fernando MC £12m
Nuri Sahin DOR £12m
Sebastian Rode DOR £12m
Victor Wanyama TH £11m
Hernanes JUV £10m
Gonzalo Castro DOR £10m
Emre Can LIV £10m
Etienne Capoue TH £9m
Georges Kevin N'Koudou TH £9m
Giovani Lo Celso PSG £8.5m
Xabi Alonso BM £8m
Marco Van Ginkel CHE £8m
Joshua Guilavogui AM £8m
Bernard Mensah AM £8m
Fabian Delph MC £8m
Matias Kranevitter AM £7m
Mohamed Elneny ARS £7m
Bastian Schweinsteiger MU £6.5m
Joshua Kimmich BM £6m
Casemiro RM £6m
Benjamin Stambouli PSG £6m
Diogo Jota AM £5.5m
Augusto Fernandez AM £5m
Dele Alli TH £5m
Stefano Sturaro JUV £5m
Marko Grujic LIV £5m
Luca Marrone JUV £4m
Mikel Merino DOR £3m
Julian Weigl DOR £2.5m
Milos Jojic DOR £2m
Mario Lemina JUV £1.5m
Sami Khedira JUV Free
Mathieu Flamini ARS Free
Frank Lampard MC Free
AM
James Rodriguez RM £63m
Kevin De Bruyne MC £54m
Mesut Ozil ARS £42.5m
Juan Mata MU £37m
Mario Gotze BM £35m
Roberto Firmino LIV £29m
Miralem Pjanic JUV £28m
Arda Turan BAR £28m
Douglas Costa BM £27m
Isco RM £27m
Mateo Kovacic RM £25m
Adam Lallana LIV £25m
Georginio Wijnaldum LIV £23m
Christian Eriksen TH £11.5m
Luis Alberto LIV £7m
Shinji Kagawa DOR £6m
Nathan CHE £4.5m
Denis Suarez BAR £3m
WING
Gareth Bale RM £85m
Angel Di Maria MU £59.7m
Anthony Martial MU £53m
Raheem Sterling MC £44m
Leroy Sane MC £37m
Willian CHE £30m
Alexis Sanchez ARS £30m
Sadio Mane LIV £30m
Henrik Mkhitaryan MU £27m
Andre Schurrle DOR £27m
Erik Lamela TH £26m
Memphis Depay MU £25m
Juan Cuadrado CHE £23m
Heung-Min Son TH £22m
Nicolas Gaitan AM £22m
Pedro CHE £21m
Lazar Markovic LIV £20m
Simone Zaza JUV £15m
Jesus Navas MC £15m
Yannick Carrasco AM £15m
Alessio Cerci AM £14m
Nolito MC £13m
Patrick Roberts £12m
Mohamed Salah CHE £11m
Nacer Chadli TH £7m
Kingsley Coman BM £5.5m
Ji-Dong Won DOR £2m
ST
Gonzalo Higuain JUV £75m
Luis Suarez BAR £65m
Edinson Cavani PSG £56m
Christian Benteke LIV £32.5m
Diego Costa CHE £32m
Paulo Dybala JUV £32m
Kevin Gameiro AM £28m
Gabriel Jesus MC £27m
Roberto Soldado TH £26m
Alvaro Morata RM £26m
Wilfried Bony MC £25m
Paco Alcacer BAR £25m
Jackson Martinez AM £25m
Antoine Griezmann AM £24m
Stevan Jovetic MC £22m
Mario Mandzukic AM £22m
Jese PSG £21m
Alvaro Negredo MC £20m
Marko Pjaca JUV £19m
Ciro Immobile DOR £18m
Lucas Perez ARS £17m
Vincent Janssen TH £17m
Danny Welbeck ARS £16m
Mario Balotelli LIV £16m
Luciano Vietto AM £16m
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang DOR £12m
Loic Remy CHE £10.5m
Divock Origi LIV £10m
Raul Jimenez AM £10m
Clinton N'Jie TH £8m
Emre Mor DOR £8m
Carlos Tevez JUV £8m
Adrian Ramos DOR £7m
Iago Aspas LIV £7m
Ousmane Dembele DOR £7m
Leo Baptistao AM £7m
Danny Ings LIV £6.5m
Angel Correa AM £6m
David Villa AM £5m
Rickie Lambert ARS £4m
Samuel Eto'o CHE £2m
Didier Drogba CHE Free
Zlatan Ibrahimovic MU Free
Fernando Llorente JUV Free
Robert Lewandowski BM Free
So take your picks. Yes you can be silly and write down Lewandowski/Suarez/Sanchez/Willian/Hummels all in one side if you wish, but if you'd rather follow your original instincts on players and assemble a squad that would be good, particularly if you take into account e.g. "well, I'd have signed Frank for that season then that summer I'd have signed X instead of Y".
If you can then list your new squad with the base players you've kept + the new signings in bold, as well as the amount spent, then we can start comparing between people.
Should keep people busy instead of doing real work.
If they're any really obvious omissions from the teams above (City, Rags, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern, Barca, Real, Dortmund, Atleti, PSG & Juve) then you can add them in with their transfer fee.
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