The Squad planning thread

Developing players/coming into prime:
Rico Lewis
Gomez
Palmer
Perrone
Foden
Haaland
Alvarez
Dias maybe?

Players in prime/coming into prime:
Ederson
Stones
Cancelo
Laporte
Ake
Akanji
Dias
Phillips
Rodri
Grealish


Uncertainty over futures:
Cancelo
Bernardo
Gundogan

Declining or aging players:
Walker
De Bruyne
Mahrez
Gundogan


Must haves for summer:
New left-back (didn’t replace Zinchenko and Cancelo not in good place right know.)

Two new central midfielders - need a refresh - energy into the midfield.

Winger - we’ve lacked pace on the flanks with Sterling , Sane departures.

If any player leaves a replacement.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Can see Cancelo, Bernado and one of our centre backs leaving in the summer, possibly Laporte.

We then have

De Bruybe 32 this year
Walker 33
Gundogan 33 in the next season
Mahrez 32

For me in the next two seasons we are going to neeed to be looking to replace these players and thinking about the future.

It’s going to be quite a big challenge.
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This is why we should be looking to sign players at normal prices and not spending our budget on one or two players at high prices like Bellingham.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
This is why we should be looking to sign players at normal prices and not spending our budget on one or two players at high prices like Bellingham.
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More like we should take a chance with cheap gems and not wait for them to become 60/70/80m stars. Do you think we may have not scouted players that Brighton signed? We probably didn't take risk and can understand why. But when it comes to refreshing squad we cannot have all of them costing 60/70/80m with 200k wages
 
anyone else think Chelsea have actually been smarter than we think with all this splashing of the cash in a sense of inflating the market going forward? They have signed some amazing players like Mudryk, Nkunku, Gusto and likely Enzo but now all also inflated the prices of EVERY other player we may go for?
 
richards30 said:
anyone else think Chelsea have actually been smarter than we think with all this splashing of the cash in a sense of inflating the market going forward? They have signed some amazing players like Mudryk, Nkunku, Gusto and likely Enzo but now all also inflated the prices of EVERY other player we may go for?
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We will find out in two to three years ffp wise they’ll be fine because of the new ffp and the new owner rule!
 
waspish said:
We will find out in two to three years ffp wise they’ll be fine because of the new ffp and the new owner rule!
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true but i meant from us trying to purchase players now as the prices for every player will now rise as they will be compared to the likes of Mudryk?
 
richards30 said:
true but i meant from us trying to purchase players now as the prices for every player will now rise as they will be compared to the likes of Mudryk?
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Well we started that as well when we paid 50m plus for left and right backs few years back. We just got to suck it up and pay the Money because if we don’t we will fall way behind
 
richards30 said:
anyone else think Chelsea have actually been smarter than we think with all this splashing of the cash in a sense of inflating the market going forward? They have signed some amazing players like Mudryk, Nkunku, Gusto and likely Enzo but now all also inflated the prices of EVERY other player we may go for?
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That's why I think we are going for more South American talent with the inflated fees in Europe, South America talent can be good if not better than the European Market. We got Alvarez, could've got Enzo for cheap, now linked to the boca winger who looks a brilliant talent.

South America Market is cheaper but could have the same amount of quality. Wouldn't be surprised if we see more come in, in the summer
 
richards30 said:
anyone else think Chelsea have actually been smarter than we think with all this splashing of the cash in a sense of inflating the market going forward? They have signed some amazing players like Mudryk, Nkunku, Gusto and likely Enzo but now all also inflated the prices of EVERY other player we may go for?
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Don’t think its smart at all, scattergun thrown enough mud some will stick, but they will be left with a bloated squad , players that won’t leave. Long contract will restrict movements in future window.
Meecastle Arsenal and ourselves the smart ones
 
richards30 said:
anyone else think Chelsea have actually been smarter than we think with all this splashing of the cash in a sense of inflating the market going forward? They have signed some amazing players like Mudryk, Nkunku, Gusto and likely Enzo but now all also inflated the prices of EVERY other player we may go for?
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Starting to feel the same, they are buying top young talent, also I would think their spending shows the American backed Super League is 99% certain and not far away.
 
richards30 said:
anyone else think Chelsea have actually been smarter than we think with all this splashing of the cash in a sense of inflating the market going forward? They have signed some amazing players like Mudryk, Nkunku, Gusto and likely Enzo but now all also inflated the prices of EVERY other player we may go for?
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There's nothing smart about it. They've spent a fortune on overpriced unproven players. It's a unique situation though. They lost the majority of their back four and have several players coming to the end of contracts or getting older and a new owner who has probably seen the "project" at Liverpool and felt that was the way to go. But you're taking a lot of gambles. Chelsea ultimately are an excellent side when Kante plays and bang average without him. It will take time for them to click, but they finished third last season and lost the two domestic cup finals on penalties. It's been quite a decline since because of those circumstances. They could easily put a quality side together, but it feels a bit rag-style at the moment where they're buying for the sake of it and have no idea how to pull it all together. They're going to be benching a lot of young talent each week, who might be quite happy to sit on mega wages for 7 years!
 
dhruvblue said:
More like we should take a chance with cheap gems and not wait for them to become 60/70/80m stars. Do you think we may have not scouted players that Brighton signed? We probably didn't take risk and can understand why. But when it comes to refreshing squad we cannot have all of them costing 60/70/80m with 200k wages
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There's no need to do that. If that model worked then Brighton/Southampton/Dortmund would win the league every season. But they don't, because clubs like us take the players once they've developed them. Our academy generates a huge income and that offsets the difference in price anyway. We still act wisely in general. There are a few question marks more recently - Grealish, Phillips and Gomez. But generally our signings have paid off and some. We've won a lot under Pep thanks to our strategy. If we can unearth a gem then we will, but it's lower risk to spend £100m on a proven player than £60m on someone who looks good but hasn't performed at the top level before. The £40m difference is made up by selling 2-3 academy players and if they go and become successful then we'll buy them back.
 
Cancelo
Laporte
Gundodgan
Bernando
Gomez
Phillips
All likely to be gone.

Mahrez one year left
De Bruyne will be turning 32

Going to be quite the shake up
 
Walker might be the surprise one added to the list in the summer but I don't think we are going to ship out that many.
 
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