It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[samuelyeboah]

Be a very similar level to when we took Mahrez from Leicester & that turned out well, he’s 25 & a bit more versatile than Riyad

no it wouldn't lmao. before mahrez came to city, he was PFA player of the year, finished 7th in the ballon d'or, had 48 goals and 38 assists for a PL club and won the PL with leicester city.. raphinha has 17 goals and 11 assists for leeds in 2 years in all comps. they aren't even in the same universe

 

[Mancityfans.net'er]

Curious to know who has a bigger squad than us

United maybe? Think that shows how having a full squad of 25 doesn't mean anything, just end up filling the squad with crap

Madrid? But they've let loads of deadwood leave in Bale, Isco, Marcelo etc.

Eddie/Steffan/Carson - Perfect

Dias/Stones/Laporte/Ake - Happy happy joy joy

Walker/Cancelo/Cucurella - so much talent, and that's without considering Zinchenko who may not leave or Ake who has filled in there

Rodri/Phillips - Smashing

KDB/Bernardo/Gundo - Again, quality over quantity, are we going to spend another £60mil for a backup players....no (also what avenue is there for youth like McAtee if we dont)

Foden/Grealish/Mahrez - Quality again, and that's assuming we sell BOTH Sterling and Jesus and bring in NO-ONE

Haaland/Alvarez - wow!!

This obsession with 25 squad players doesn't make any sense to me, would you want to buy someone like Sarr for £30mil for the wings with Palmer on the books?

Should we buy James Ward-Prowse as 4th choice?

What abut the loan army, shall we get a 3rd choice RB when Couto, Kabore or the EDS guys

As per whoscored, looking at players who played more than 450 minutes (5 starts) in their respective elegies

Us - 18 players
Madrid - 18 players
United- 18 players
Liverpool - 19 players
Spurs - 20 (Inc Ali who left) players
Arsenal - 20 players
Chelsea - 21 players
West Ham - 17 (they had Europa commitments too)
PSG - 22 players

Do we really need a full squad of 25 senior players when it's likely that 5 to 7 of then aren't going barely feature?

Even if you consider us selling Jesus Sterling and Zinchenko (with Philllips & Cucurella joining) we still have 17 QUALITY players for 10 outfield positions, and then you have Palmer, McAtee, Lavia, Delap, Kayky, Egan-Riley etc. from the EDS or Rosa, Herrera, Kabore, stevanovic, Couto from the loan army

We had the second smallest squad last season, only villa had smaller. Its this that fucks the pursuit of 4 cups and leads to pep throwing the fa cup.

 

[leo_city]

I would love for us to get Leao. Excellent replacement for Raheem if true

 

[handsofstone]

We had the second smallest squad last season, only villa had smaller. Its this that fucks the pursuit of 4 cups and leads to pep throwing the fa cup.

West Ham and Arsenal fan's (and every other) would disagree

But happy days, just to keep people happy we should get in Tolisso, Sam Johnstone, Serge Aurier, Adnan Januzaj & Jeffrey Shlupp...... problem solved and we wouldn't have to spend a penny

 

[FMwkdsoul]

We had the second smallest squad last season, only villa had smaller. Its this that fucks the pursuit of 4 cups and leads to pep throwing the fa cup.

We used 26 players, same as Chelsea. One less than Liverpool

 

[Gumzy97]

I agree, it would take at least that to land him, and I just don't see the club paying it, even if we were to get 100m for Sterling and Jesus. Plus it would be a long drawn out haggle. A new contract gets mentioned too many times with this story for it not to seem like someone is fishing.

Depends if Milan are scared of Juve. There was stories in January that Juventus were tapping Leao up to run his contract down and move there for free. I reckon Milan would rather sell outside of their league. He's got two year left. He isn't signing a new deal if Juve are doing their thing of tapping up and telling him to run down his contract for a big pay day

 

[FMwkdsoul]

Depends if Milan are scared of Juve. There was stories in January that Juventus were tapping Leao up to run his contract down and move there for free. I reckon Milan would rather sell outside of their league. He's got two year left.

and a Mendes client who is shopping hard this window for new deals and/or moves.

 

[mrsprkl]

I wonder who will be leaving us today? Another fascinating day ahead.

Haaland , hes got a release clause after three week contract

 

[Gumzy97]

and a Mendes client who is shopping hard this window for new deals and/or moves.

Exactly Mendes isn't stupid leao has alot of hype around him right now. That's money. Mendes would be stupid in trying not to get him to move this window especially with the new agent rules next year

 

[Woody135]

Curious to know who has a bigger squad than us

United maybe? Think that shows how having a full squad of 25 doesn't mean anything, just end up filling the squad with crap

Madrid? But they've let loads of deadwood leave in Bale, Isco, Marcelo etc.

Eddie/Steffan/Carson - Perfect

Dias/Stones/Laporte/Ake - Happy happy joy joy

Walker/Cancelo/Cucurella - so much talent, and that's without considering Zinchenko who may not leave or Ake who has filled in there

Rodri/Phillips - Smashing

KDB/Bernardo/Gundo - Again, quality over quantity, are we going to spend another £60mil for a backup players....no (also what avenue is there for youth like McAtee if we dont)

Foden/Grealish/Mahrez - Quality again, and that's assuming we sell BOTH Sterling and Jesus and bring in NO-ONE

Haaland/Alvarez - wow!!

This obsession with 25 squad players doesn't make any sense to me, would you want to buy someone like Sarr for £30mil for the wings with Palmer on the books?

Should we buy James Ward-Prowse as 4th choice?

What abut the loan army, shall we get a 3rd choice RB when Couto, Kabore or the EDS guys

As per whoscored, looking at players who played more than 450 minutes (5 starts) in their respective elegies

Us - 18 players
Madrid - 18 players
United- 18 players
Liverpool - 19 players
Spurs - 20 (Inc Ali who left) players
Arsenal - 20 players
Chelsea - 21 players
West Ham - 17 (they had Europa commitments too)
PSG - 22 players

Do we really need a full squad of 25 senior players when it's likely that 5 to 7 of then aren't going barely feature?

Even if you consider us selling Jesus Sterling and Zinchenko (with Philllips & Cucurella joining) we still have 17 QUALITY players for 10 outfield positions, and then you have Palmer, McAtee, Lavia, Delap, Kayky, Egan-Riley etc. from the EDS or Rosa, Herrera, Kabore, stevanovic, Couto from the loan army

If we “only” have 17 senior outfield players, we will have to give away the league cup and fa cup. 2-3 injuries at the same time and youre already reliant on EDS players for rotation when we’re playing every 3 days. Thats less than this year and we were thin.

The EDS players probably are good enough but relying on them at the start of the season isn’t right for a club with ambitions of winning everything.

2 for every position should be the aim.

FB: Walker, Cancelo, NEW, Zinchenko
CB: Dias, Stones, Laporte, Ake
DM: Rodri, NEW
AM: KDB, Bernardo, Gundo, Foden
Wing: Mahrez, Grealish, Sterling, Palmer
ST: Haaland, Alvarez

Plenty of scope for rotation and injuries.
If Sterling leaves we need a replacement
If Bernardo leaves we need a replacement
If Zin leaves we could probably cope but a shame

The direct comparison youve given is Liverpool. Will believe your numbers of 18/19, but players they had that had less than 5 starts that could have been relied on in a crisis:
Gomez; Minamino; Elliot; Origi
Not world beaters, but definite first team squad players and took cup minutes from first choice to give them a rest.

We had only EDS players. No first team squad players had less than 5 starts.

So really they had a first team squad of 24 (2 per position) and we had 18. They got to latter stages of every comp we didnt.

WE MUST INCREASE OUR SQUAD SIZE IF WE ARE TO COMPETE FOR EVERY TROPHY LIKE WE USED TO