How long will the rebuild take?

[1.618034]

Buckle your seat belts, Kansas has gone Bye-Bye.

 

[Bluearmy]

The current squad is still good enough for Top 4/5 (which might be enough for a Champions League spot this year)

I can see the argument for making signings in January but if pushed, I'd probably save the money for the summer when better players are more likely to be available.

Imagine if we panic buy a dud in January and because of it, can't sign an otherwise available better player in the summer?

Its clearly not good enough. We will not finish top 4 without significant reinforcements in January…. Even then its not a given we’ll get top 4 but we have more holes in the squad than Swiss cheese. We cant afford to do nothing

 

[Paul1970]

The current squad is still good enough for Top 4/5 (which might be enough for a Champions League spot this year)

I can see the argument for making signings in January but if pushed, I'd probably save the money for the summer when better players are more likely to be available.

Imagine if we panic buy a dud in January and because of it, can't sign an otherwise available better player in the summer?

We are in free fall mate and this squad atm isn’t making top four abc we are going out of Europe aswell so we need to do something in January and I agree we can’t sign a dud but we need somthing and we need it asap . Tbh I wouldn’t trust our DOF so can’t guarantee if we buy shit again .

 

[chiswick blue]

We've had a very bad couple of months, not years. 2 players this window and 3 in the summer (and a reserve GK) of the correct quality with Rordi/ Bobb returned and Foden regaining form will be enough to see us back. The caveat is the quality of the players

 

[RegisteredToSeePhotos]

Its clearly not good enough. We will not finish top 4 without significant reinforcements in January…. Even then its not a given we’ll get top 4 but we have more holes in the squad than Swiss cheese. We cant afford to do nothing

We won our first 3 games of the season with decent performances, without Rodri, and were able to grind out results to remain unbeaten until the Spurs game. I think we can get back to that and get Top 4.

Which players that can be considered significant is going to be available in January? Nunes/Phillips type signings are what we're likely to get in January.

 

[Bluearmy]

We won our first 3 games of the season with decent performances, without Rodri, and were able to grind out results to remain unbeaten until the Spurs game. I think we can get back to that and get Top 4.

Which players that can be considered significant is going to be available in January?

Not a chance imo, if we do nothing… you really think we’ll get a result away to Villa next week?

As for players that are potentially gettable in January, its tuff and we certainly wouldn't get them from Champions league teams obviously, however some are getable and would strengthen our squad/freshen things up until the summer!!

Zubamendi would be my most urgent choice.
We cannot go into the second half of the season without a DM!! Its like groundhog day currently… he’s played with Rodri and also replaced him for Spain.

Wharton from Palace potentially

I like Robinson (LB) at Fulham. We've not had a LB of any note since Clichy left in 2017.

Livaremento (RB) if Newcastle have to sell maybe…

Cunha from Wolves looks decent. Can play anywhere across the front line plus AM/Second striker!

 

[we are really here]

We do have echeverri coming in January, which could be our alvarez signing.

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

I’ve no idea how we play anymore

 

[chiswick blue]

Its clearly not good enough. We will not finish top 4 without significant reinforcements in January…. Even then its not a given we’ll get top 4 but we have more holes in the squad than Swiss cheese. We cant afford to do nothing

It’s not good enough for top 4 but 2-3 good signings in Jan would do it.

 

[kippax123]

Not long, just need Pep to have 2 transfer windows to put right what we have lost or need to change. TOTALLY trust Pep 100%. Just need to move on and start with a few fresh few players.

 

[Jim Tolmie's Underpants]

I’ve no idea how we play anymore

Badly.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

The current squad is still good enough for Top 4/5 (which might be enough for a Champions League spot this year)

It's nowhere near good enough, it's pretty delusional even thinking that.

The only chance we have is doing some top business in January, then we can reassess where we might finish.

 

[RayCTID]

There’s more chance of me dating and entering in a serious relationship with Margot Robbie than us doing serious transfer buisness in January.

 

[mancity111]

Hard to say , if we continue on our transfer policy of recent times then a fair bit longer than those in days gone by when we bought 3-4 real quality in one window.

One thing I do know is that many of yesterdays starters are not good enough anymore or into the future to have a future at the club providing we can off load them in the summer.

Its obvious also our squad numbers are too light so we may have to go down the Chelsea route albeit on a smaller scale.

20 -22 players won't cut it anymore if we ar not bringing in youth from the lower ranks.

 

[RayCTID]

Hard to say , if we continue on our transfer policy of recent times then a fair bit longer than those in days gone by when we bought 3-4 real quality in one window.

One thing I do know is that many of yesterdays starters are not good enough anymore or into the future to have a future at the club providing we can off load them in the summer.

Its obvious also our squad numbers are too light so we may have to go down the Chelsea route albeit on a smaller scale.

20 -22 players won't cut it anymore if we ar not bringing in youth from the lower ranks.

Get the charges dropped then we can really spend money without any repercussions

 

[ws01]

We could get it done in a window, two max if we're efficient.

Some quality wide players (wing and fullback) will go a long way to rectifying.

 

[mancity111]

Get the charges dropped then we can really spend money without any repercussions

Yes that issue is still live and I have assumed that all will be well on that front and we can move forward with some degree of certainty.

if not then of course some targets will have second thoughts about joining us but I know we are not going away and despite the collapse in form and results this season the cartel know this as well.

 

[houraisen]

In order to rebuild, we need to let go of old, burned-out players, but can Pep say that to the players who have shared the good times and the bad?

 

[blueabdi]

There are no superstars or good players in the market. Thats my concern.

 

[jacko74]

Imagine we sign a dud in summer

It's not difficult to imagine.

Just look at the last 3 or 4 transfer windows if you want to see what signing mediocre players looks like.