The Squad planning thread

[SaintColin]

Why? We’re not Burnley.

Because I feel like the club have switched strategy’s to going for cheaper lesser known with potential. Which is why our squad is littered with average.

 

[blueparrot]

Because I feel like the club have switched strategy’s to going for cheaper lesser known with potential. Which is why our squad is littered with average.

It isn’t that’s bollocks.

 

[SaintColin]

It isn’t that’s bollocks.

That is literally what we have been doing…how else do you end up with the wingers we have? Woeful options in defence after injuries. Midfield isn’t great. I don’t know what you’ve been watching the club do.

The fact we’re here in Jan again asking to spend 100+Million means the club have messed up…again.

 

[ALDN_Ko]

That is literally what we have been doing…how else do you end up with the wingers we have? Woeful options in defence after injuries. Midfield isn’t great. I don’t know what you’ve been watching the club do.

The fact we’re here in Jan again asking to spend 100+Million means the club have messed up…again.

They’ve messed up by not buying the right profiles not because the players are average. Reis and Khusanov are the right profiles but are young. Reijnders good 10 but never a box to box.
We kept Kovacic and didn’t get another midfielder because we were naive enough to believe he would come back from an Achilles injury with no set backs. Then we kept two injury prone and aging CBs that Pep doesn’t trust anymore. All three should’ve been made redundant last summer.

 

[ancoats]

It is the job of sporting director, that if Pep would leave tomorrow, the new manager would have the tools to do the job, the last thing we would want is to do a ferguson, when he made sure no utd manager could challenge his legacy. We just have to trust that our new leadership take this into consideration.

I understand the DNA planning, But Pep and the sporting director do have some question marks about the squad right now. No fullbacks is one, 4 keepers is another, also one Striker in Haaland ? I know we have Marmoush, but I think he's a number 10 ? City has a very unbalanced squad and most clubs like the like for like option and maybe have more youth mixed in.

Pep squads remind me of an international team setup for the big tournaments like the World Cup
the best 11 and the rest are a cover for defence and midfield with multi-roles for attackers

 

[ancoats]

That is literally what we have been doing…how else do you end up with the wingers we have? Woeful options in defence after injuries. Midfield isn’t great. I don’t know what you’ve been watching the club do.

The fact we’re here in Jan again asking to spend 100+Million means the club have messed up…again.

The problem is Pep having a heart of gold with the golden period players, like Stones, Ake, Silva, they need to go last season when the time was right, also having 4 keepers is crazy and then Phillips and the loans of Grealish Akanji

 

[jprkas]

2 important windows ahead, right now we need a defender, centre mid and winger but the needs long term are even greater.

At the end of the summer:
GK - Trafford probably leaves in the summer.
RB - Need proper competition for Nunes.
CB - Stones and Ake leave. Leaving Dias, Josko, Khusanov and Reis.
CM - Bernardo and Kova probably go.
RW - Need one already.
RW - Bobb goes.
LW - Savinho goes.

7 new players. 3 that seem obvious right now:
CB - Guehi
CM - Anderson
RW - Semenyo

All homegrown and all starting in the PL already.

You missed Left back where we have a young player learning on the job (as per his naive error yesterday) and a wing back we bought from Wolves. Not strong enough in either Full back positions. Plus all our mids are weak physically except Rodri so will always get bullied.

 

[blueparrot]

That is literally what we have been doing…how else do you end up with the wingers we have? Woeful options in defence after injuries. Midfield isn’t great. I don’t know what you’ve been watching the club do.

The fact we’re here in Jan again asking to spend 100+Million means the club have messed up…again.

Nope still bollocks. We have almost completely rebuilt the team, probably 3 more players needed. Without dropping out of cl places, and this season probably the only team that can challenge Arsenal, 4 th in the C/L and a semi final. So,yes average playeers is bollocks. If the rebuild isn’t good enough for you because we aren’t top ( yet), tough shit.

 

[SaintColin]

Nope still bollocks. We have almost completely rebuilt the team, probably 3 more players needed. Without dropping out of cl places, and this season probably the only team that can challenge Arsenal, 4 th in the C/L and a semi final. So,yes average playeers is bollocks. If the rebuild isn’t good enough for you because we aren’t top ( yet), tough shit.

Completely rebuilt the team with what!? We still have 2 eternaly injured cbs and another barely gets used. We have no right back. Our wingers have scored 1 league goal between the three of them, again. Our midfield is average “3 players” haha you little bullshitter.

the club failed again.

 

[blueparrot]

Completely rebuilt the team with what!? We still have 2 eternaly injured cbs and another barely gets used. We have no right back. Our wingers have scored 1 league goal between the three of them, again. Our midfield is average “3 players” haha you little bullshitter.

the club failed again.

Okay whatever, idiot.

 

[MCFC1993]

2 important windows ahead, right now we need a defender, centre mid and winger but the needs long term are even greater.

At the end of the summer:
GK - Trafford probably leaves in the summer.
RB - Need proper competition for Nunes.
CB - Stones and Ake leave. Leaving Dias, Josko, Khusanov and Reis.
CM - Bernardo and Kova probably go.
RW - Need one already.
RW - Bobb goes.
LW - Savinho goes.

7 new players. 3 that seem obvious right now:
CB - Guehi
CM - Anderson
RW - Semenyo

All homegrown and all starting in the PL already.

I'll add to this. I'd more on a RB/CB as well as Guehi this summer after the Gvardiol news.

Busy January for Viana and Pep.

 

[chiswick blue]

2 important windows ahead, right now we need a defender, centre mid and winger but the needs long term are even greater.

At the end of the summer:
GK - Trafford probably leaves in the summer.
RB - Need proper competition for Nunes.
CB - Stones and Ake leave. Leaving Dias, Josko, Khusanov and Reis.
CM - Bernardo and Kova probably go.
RW - Need one already.
RW - Bobb goes.
LW - Savinho goes.

7 new players. 3 that seem obvious right now:
CB - Guehi
CM - Anderson
RW - Semenyo

All homegrown and all starting in the PL already.

Maybe we keep Ortega as 2nd GK and add Livramento to the list because he can play RB and LB

 

[dragonman98]

My take is that if the club wants to buy defenders, they should target Cobham (both current and ex). Ake was great for the club, now Guehi, and Livramento on the shortlist in the summer. Feel like they missed the boat with Acheampong kid, back when he was available for 10m iirc and had some conflicts with the Chelsea board, he has high potential.

And my crazy idea is club should see how Chelsea end up this season, if they implode and miss out on European competitions, go and knock on Reece James's door to see if he's interested in jumping ship.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Maybe we keep Ortega as 2nd GK and add Livramento to the list because he can play RB and LB

No, no, no and, again, no.
We are one of the biggest clubs in the world and letting our second choice keeper leave would fly in the face of that. Ortega is no longer good enough.
I’m sure everyone at City will see that.

 

[Paul1970]

If we don’t buy a defender after losing josko and Ruben and with stones out and ake made of glass then it will go down as a massive clusterfuck considering all our potentials are on loan . Cmon city let’s get back to being the very best when it comes to transfers .

 

[Bluesince1979]

That is literally what we have been doing…how else do you end up with the wingers we have? Woeful options in defence after injuries. Midfield isn’t great. I don’t know what you’ve been watching the club do.

The fact we’re here in Jan again asking to spend 100+Million means the club have messed up…again.

Yep. And for pretty every player that left, his replacement was a grade down

 

[roy.or.r]

Just curious. Would anyone here be happy with a swap between Haaland and Mbappe if it was possible?

 

[dragonman98]

Just curious. Would anyone here be happy with a swap between Haaland and Mbappe if it was possible?

Absolutely not. Haaland, even if he doesn’t score, still offers something with hold up and defending, Mbappe does not. Mbappe also doesn’t defend or track back, and he doesn’t even like dueling with the CBs to create space for others.

 

[ALDN_Ko]

Absolutely not. Haaland, even if he doesn’t score, still offers something with hold up and defending, Mbappe does not. Mbappe also doesn’t defend or track back, and he doesn’t even like dueling with the CBs to create space for others.

Mbappe has no box movement. We wouldn’t need him to clog up the LHS with Doku and spam long shots

 

[Zenmanc]

Maybe we keep Ortega as 2nd GK and add Livramento to the list because he can play RB and LB

Would like O'Reilly to be able to play in midfield which means we need another LB as RAN doesn't seem to be up to task yet.