Summer 2023 outgoing

[DeBlueLou]

guessing:
Out:
Laporte
Cancelo
Palmer(loan)
Gomez
Bernardo

In:
Kovacic
Gvardiol
Winger
Winger
Younger lb/youngster

 

[bell_mcfc]

Starting 11 next season

............Ederson (Ortega)
Walker (Akanji)....Dias (Akanji)....Gvardiol (AKe)

,.....,..Stones (Perrone)... Rodri (Phillips)

Slobozslai(Palmer)..........................Jack ( ???)

........Kevin(Alvarez).....Foden ( Kovacic)

.................Halaand( Alvarez)

It’s interesting because immediately I was like you can’t play Foden and KDB centrally together but maybe Pep will start playing KDB deeper more controlled. Certainly a good idea moving forward.

 

[mcfcmatt]

I agree. If Bernardo, Gundogan and Mahrez are going we need to sign a couple of top quality players, a listers. You can’t win a treble, lose 3 of your best players and replace them with potential. We will never be in a better position financially or prestige wise to make waves in the transfer market than we are right now.

Absolutely this, that’s a mini rebuild job.

 

[Asa's left peg]

If we are serious about retaining everything - this season we definitely need to buy 2 refs and a VAR official.

 

[xmusampa]

Out
gundogan
Silva
Laporte

In
Jonjo Shelvey
Jesse Lingaard
Titus Bramble

At least bramble is organic

 

[lasereyes]

Could see Mahrez being tempted by that Saudi offer.

Cancelo, Laporte, Bernardo, Gomez and Mahrez could probably be 170-190m altogether.
Could be lots of CFG/Youth outgoings as well. Harwood-Bellis, T. Doyle, Lavia (sell-on), Breckin, Borges, Delap and JWE could probably be another 70-80m. Add Steffen, Yangel Herrera, Couto and Kabore and there could be another 30m. Would be fun if we could beat the dippers to the net spend trophy, could easily be looking at 200m in sales

We already have - their net spend over past 5 years is significantly higher than ours. Another accolade where all they have is history ...

 

[lasereyes]

I`d like to see Gomez stay, definitely think there`s a player there. My guess is he`s one of those players that would improve massively in his second season now that he`s settled, like Rodri, Bernardo, Mahrez etc. Not sure Pep fully trusts him at this moment though, hasn`t played much. Think Tolmie also said he`s most likely off in the summer.

My wonder is if he goes, do we get another LB? Gvardiol replaces Laporte and covers both the CB and LB, as does Ake. Still get the feeling if Gomez goes we`d need another man, 2 out and 2 in. As Gvardiol/Ake would probably be the preferred option in PL/CL, a new LB would probably be more of a backup, like Gomez, which means that he`d probably play together with Rico Lewis (at least for next season). As Rico inverts, any new "backup" LB would probably have to stay back in a back 3. Not sure who would fit that profile

Since we would have 3 who can play there (including Akanji), can Wilson-Esbrand be the 4th?

 

[lasereyes]

It’s interesting because immediately I was like you can’t play Foden and KDB centrally together but maybe Pep will start playing KDB deeper more controlled. Certainly a good idea moving forward.

At some point, same was said about KDB and David Silva as I recall? And then KDB and Bernardo ...

 

[HumbledGooner]

Absolutely this, that’s a mini rebuild job.

Whose available though? Even for rich clubs with money, there are moments when quality options are thin. And of the capable replacements, there are few, and of those few, even fewer are actually realistic options to sign.

KDB, Gundogan, Bernardo all need longer term replacements now, especially KDB having torn his hamstring & may miss the start of next season. If this were midyear he would have been looking at a 2-3 month layoff.

Dont want to do what Liverpool did and put off replacing players in the 28+ age bracket. Liverpool went to deep into the cycle and they fell off. Gundogan and KDB are both 32. Replacing these two with capable players is a massive task and like I said, who is realistically avialable?

 

[Zenmanc]

Sorry but if Alvarez already had his head turned... We don't need his Spidey senses.