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Anyone else worried that we'll lack experience next season? Stone, Laporte, Denayer, Sane, Sterling would be very inexperienced!
 
itisrising said:
Anyone else worried that we'll lack experience next season? Stone, Laporte, Denayer, Sane, Sterling would be very inexperienced!
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They are young but they all have getting on for 100 games under their belts in various top divisions and are all in their international squads at senior level.
 
itisrising said:
Anyone else worried that we'll lack experience next season? Stone, Laporte, Denayer, Sane, Sterling would be very inexperienced!
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Nope.

Just incredibly happy that for the next 3 seasons at least we will have the worlds best coaching and building the team and club.
 
johnmc said:
Stones and Denayer could form a central defence for many years. Both are too young to have them playing together now but both will get games playing either in the centre or on the right.

Bringing them both into the fray now whilst allowing some time to improve, gel together and rotate is the ideal situation.
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Agree with the sentiment, the earlier the better for development purposes. However the issue with that is we have some serious rebuilding to do this summer, so not entirely sure this is the time to be splashing £80m on a future partnership at the back where we're already pretty well stocked.

Ideally we need 2 CM's (Gundogan + whoever), and given that Navas is supposedly leaving we'll need arguably 2 wingers, we also quite clearly need 2 fullbacks (RB+LB), a backup keeper & probably need another striker in all honesty assuming Bony is not in the plans. To me CB is our best stocked position (Denayer, Kompany, Otamendi & Mangala already).

Does make you wonder how much we could end up spending this window, Stones, Laporte & Gundogan are likely going to be ~£100m alone, and you'd think a minimum on top of that would be 1 fullback, 1 midfielder & 1 forward - unless of course we dip significantly into our youth pool, which would be nice (if not risky).
 
razman said:
this ! being English is the major factor why we are going with this then....our homegrown quota is a mess....making expensive acquisitions to make up for it FFS
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How exactly is our Homegrown quota a mess? We need four and we have four (Hart, Delph, Clichy, Sterling).
 
itisrising said:
Anyone else worried that we'll lack experience next season? Stone, Laporte, Denayer, Sane, Sterling would be very inexperienced!
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No. Tottenham showed the way this season. Lots of young players there and they would have won the title if they hadn't had such a slow start.
 
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