its brutal how we found difficult to deal with Bournemouth energy. we were overturned a lot, losing duels, lethargic. schedule is hard for sure but hard for others too. maybe not so much for clubs outside CL-EL, but they have 3rd or 4th of our wage list...
we need a big change in the squad with young and strong players who can and willing to press, track back and throw themselves into attack. as we got comfortable in the market, the team got bit slower, bit more comfortable, less easy on the eye, harder to reinvent ourselves after 4 titles in a row, injuries creeping in much more, we need new momentum given by incoming players. the like of momentum Haaland gave us in his debut season. the momentum Palmer gave Chelsea last season.
we will not be able to go ahead with nostalgia and hanging onto Walker, Gundo, KDB for another few seasons. Kovacic, Stones, Bernardo, Grealish also this category quite soon. important rotational role in time but not a starter week in week out. Kovacic very injury prone based on his track record so its quite luck he has been available since Rodri is off, but we are very light there.
Gvardiol, Doku, Savinho is a good direction but we need more of the same and someone at the level of coming in and delivering first season big time. to give something to think about for others. Wirtz is someone I would deffo prefer.
its a lot about planning and Viana already can look at various players and set the groundwork with Txiki so early next summer we can move with speed. but also Pep need to be hurried about a decision and to be fair it needs to be a renewal of 2 years as another 12 month deal is just represents he is not in for one big rebuild.