It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[oldius]

The average age of the squad is 26.8 years. Plenty of youngsters like Doku, Bobb, Savinho, Lewis. Phil and Erling both 24. Rodri and Jack both in their twenties, as is Dias. BUT, we do have key players well into their thirties and they will need replacing, no matter their achievements and importance.

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

In the last year or so the midfielders where there seemed to be some concrete interest were Paqueta, Guimares and Wharton.

Newcastle think that some cryptic clues posted by their midfielder means he is leaving.

Would he be a good signing in January?

Personally I'd love Guimaraes in Jan. He'd add some character and bite to our midfield, as well as genuine leadership qualities and ability.

 

[RayCTID]

And Doku and Savio are nowhere near that stage where they start thinking they are too good for City or want to go home to mum , or move back to BM in order to secure their place in the national team
( allegedly )

Give both time both have showed signs they can cut it under Pep. Sane wouldn't be the answer either.

 

[argyle]

We can do better than Savio & Doku

Savinho wasn't meant to be playing this much.

Only playing due to injuries to Bobb, Grealish and Doku.

 

[RayCTID]

Savio has had really promising season at Girona and has shown signs at City he is a useful player to have ignore his currnet stats at the minute.

 

[Delphinho]

The window is likely to cost a lot of money, but we've won a couple of net spend trophies so it's time to go the other way again

Agree with that. Time to have a negative net spend again and address some of the issues that are long overdue. Won’t get as much in sales as this summer, and KDB (and Gundo) leaving on a free is a bit of a shame, especially as the former would probably go for somewhere between 30-60m if Saudi wanted him

Could see Walker, Bernardo, Stones, McAtee, Kabore, Wilson-Esbrand, Phillips and Perrone all leaving, would hopefully be closer to 100m? Not a big fan of Stones going, but he’s more often injured than fit and available. Can’t rely on him anymore, especially as Pep wants a smaller squad

 

[Tico Warrior]

Agree with that. Time to have a negative net spend again and address some of the issues that are long overdue. Won’t get as much in sales as this summer, and KDB (and Gundo) leaving on a free is a bit of a shame, especially as the former would probably go for somewhere between 30-60m if Saudi wanted him

Could see Walker, Bernardo, Stones, McAtee, Kabore, Wilson-Esbrand, Phillips and Perrone all leaving, would hopefully be closer to 100m? Not a big fan of Stones going, but he’s more often injured than fit and available. Can’t rely on him anymore, especially as Pep wants a smaller squad

Think we are stuck with Phillips, Stones, and Walked until their contracts run out. As for wanting a tiny squad, we have to be realistic. If we go into next season with the same size squad but different players, we are going to struggle again. We need to use the academy more and rotate in league cup games, easier opposition in the fa cup and champions league. Pep can't keep complaining about players playing too much and asking for more subs to then not use the subs and never resting certain players.

 

[RayCTID]

Agree with that. Time to have a negative net spend again and address some of the issues that are long overdue. Won’t get as much in sales as this summer, and KDB (and Gundo) leaving on a free is a bit of a shame, especially as the former would probably go for somewhere between 30-60m if Saudi wanted him

Could see Walker, Bernardo, Stones, McAtee, Kabore, Wilson-Esbrand, Phillips and Perrone all leaving, would hopefully be closer to 100m? Not a big fan of Stones going, but he’s more often injured than fit and available. Can’t rely on him anymore, especially as Pep wants a smaller squad

We won't do that in one transfer window. The most transfers we did in one summer is 5 in recent times.

 

[Blue2202]

Agree with that. Time to have a negative net spend again and address some of the issues that are long overdue. Won’t get as much in sales as this summer, and KDB (and Gundo) leaving on a free is a bit of a shame, especially as the former would probably go for somewhere between 30-60m if Saudi wanted him

Could see Walker, Bernardo, Stones, McAtee, Kabore, Wilson-Esbrand, Phillips and Perrone all leaving, would hopefully be closer to 100m? Not a big fan of Stones going, but he’s more often injured than fit and available. Can’t rely on him anymore, especially as Pep wants a smaller squad

I'd give Stones and Bernardo another season personally. The rest I can see happening along with maybe also cashing in on Ederson if rumours are anything to go by. How many do you see coming in?
High priority for me:

Right back
Midfield x2 (one in Jan)
KDB replacement
Back up striker/versatile forward player

Lower priority:

Back up keeper - If Eddy goes
Left back - allow Gvardiol to play CB

 

[Paul1970]

Think we are stuck with Phillips, Stones, and Walked until their contracts run out. As for wanting a tiny squad, we have to be realistic. If we go into next season with the same size squad but different players, we are going to struggle again. We need to use the academy more and rotate in league cup games, easier opposition in the fa cup and champions league. Pep can't keep complaining about players playing too much and asking for more subs to then not use the subs and never resting certain players.

Agree . How do the fuck does a team of our stature have to rely on putting Scott Carson on he subs bench because our squad is so small now that is a problem . We used have a battle getting players on the bench because our squad was that good but now we can’t even fill the first 11 with players in the right position I mean when you look at it from where we where to now it’s a massive drop of and if it was in the business someone’s head would be rolling .