MaskedAguero10
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Yup. Plus we would have the following list of potential players for the "back 5": Walker,Akanji,Stones,Dias,Ake,Gvardiol,Rodri Rice. Do you know how flexible that can make us at the back?finally someone that gets it! exactly this. it also means we can have more risky players on the pitch since we are counter resistent with rice, imagine foden, haaland and like a leao on the break with kdb feeding them ball... reason we cant play like this now is becuz we are vulnerable in transition
We could play so many build up shapes like the 3-2, 4-2(de-zerbi like), 2-3 etc etc.
Combinations like
Rodri/Rice-------------Rice/Stones
Ake/Gvardiol----Dias/Stones/Akanji-----Stones/Akanji/Walker
And coming back to your point about transitions, I always felt that in previous seasons pep wasn't as assured on his defense and was always making tweaks and tactical shifts to mitigate our defensive frailties as much as possible. This season is probably the first where I feel that he genuinely feels confident in our defense. It helps that we've seemed to depart from defensively deficient inverted fullbacks like Zinchenko and Cancelo and replaced them with basically pure CB's.
Also our front 5 if we can also get a new winger could be like:
Grealish/Foden/Winger---------Haaland/Alvarez---------Mahrez/Foden/Winger/Silva
Gundo*/Silva-------------------KDB/Alvarez/Foden
*If Gundo goes then possible new CM.
How much do you think we can bring in total if we sell Laporte, Cancelo, and possibly Phillips IF Pep has decided he's not able to step up, plus possibly some youngsters? Im thinking: Laporte(£50M) Cancelo(£55M) Phillips(£35M) Total= £140M.
Say we decided to let Gundo go this summer along with players mentioned above, then we decide to get a new CB, DM,CM and winger. Rice probably around £80M, Gvardiol £85M, Winger (£55M) , New CM(£70M) Total spend= £290M
Net spend would be 290-140= £150M. Also, wonder if we receive a percentage for any sale for someone like Lavia who it seems likely could be sold this summer.
Idk I'm just thinking out loud at the moment.