Kovacic as good as he is is missing a few traits that Gundo had namely creativity and goals so in that sense we are,weaker.Assuming Doku still happens.
Gundogan out - Kovacic in.
Mahrez out - Doku in.
Laporte out - Gvardiol in.
I don't see how we're weaker. Palmer has obviously come on leaps and bounds and McAtee and Bobb are good enough to pick up a dozen games each.
I dont think we will realise how much we will miss him now he has goneAny team would miss Gundo mate.
Well this thread must be making you really upset because why are we talking about a second rate player in Paqueta?Im upset people are talking about a second rate player who has already signed for another club. What relevance does that have to anything.
I might start a new thread, We should have signed Messi in 2005.
First post, "Maybe we would have got UEFA cup that year, with him and Darius Vassell up top, anyone disagree?"
He must learn a lot if things none of us are party to - given the amount of imminent deals that come to nothing.I can never quite get my head around people with no knowledge of an issue just blame Txiki.
What if he's asked for 900k per week, does that make Txiki useless?
What if we've found out that when Paqueta was 15, he liked to set fire to bunny rabbits. Txiki useless?
What if we've learned that his knee is made of cheese, Txiki useless?
The knee jerk blame Txiki thing is so, so bizarre.
Hasn't signed for another club though has he. Which is what the topic is here, think what you like about the player but at least the option of signing him is on the table.Well this thread must be making you really upset because why are we talking about a second rate player in Paqueta?
Could he be great, sure. Reality is he is not Bellingham, Rice, Caicedo, Valverde, or other players in this vain.
There’s only one thing worse to you than us playing shit and that’s not buying 25 new players each summer.We looked shit the other night on chance creation as well and Erling never had a sniff? Ridiculous to be in this situation now
No I think that’s a valid take. If we still have the current squad at the end of the window it won’t have been a great result for us.Not necessarily - incompetent may be a bit strong, but it's been disappointing and unless we pull something out of the hat, not what we expected after the Treble and the big talk. Over to Pep again.
Hope that's not too blasphemous.
We've certainly got a big enough squad, but we seem to have a lot of defenders.You do realise we are currently one over the allowed 21. That is excluding Foden, who is club trained, and Palmer, McAtee,Bobb, etc who are B-list youth.
Quality or balance might be up for debate in terms of what's lacking, but numbers, as things stand, really isn't.