The Squad planning thread

[bugsyblue]

Players we bring in always fizzle out and never make as big of an impact as they are expected to...

Phillips
Gonzalez
Nunes
Grealish
only these are from recent times

You can guarantee if we brought someone in like Bowen, GibbsWhite, Reijnders, they'd never make as big of an impact as you'd expect them to for that kind of money

That’s not true. We’ve signed plenty of players who have either lived up to their hype or been better than expected:

Sergio
Yaya
Silva
Kdb
Ferds
Rodri
Kompany

To name a few

 

[CC1]

That’s not true. We’ve signed plenty of players who have either lived up to their hype or been better than expected:

Sergio
Yaya
Silva
Kdb
Ferds
Rodri
Kompany

To name a few

I’d ignore some fans. They have very short memories & little knowledge

 

[Gumzy97]

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Vanderson, Kerkez, Reijnders and Wirtz.

 

[Roachy]

Sounds like a good start.

 

[AliAdel]

Better than all of our forwards combined.

 

[Goats left knee]

Cambiaso
The Brazilian
Wirtz
Reinjders

 

[WRicko]

Savona
Hato
Wirtz
Cherki

Another CB ?

 

[Gabriel]

Another CB ?

Potentially down the line, but both Savona and Hato are primarily powerful fullbacks.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Cambiaso
The Brazilian
Wirtz
Reinjders

That's exactly what we need. Get the width from proper attacking full backs pushing up.

Rodri Reijnders

Foden/MGW Marmoush Wirtz

Haaland

 

[TheBlueCat]

We need a new vision here. Tactically we are bankrupt. I watched the U18s play Villa prior to the Cup Final. Villa did exactly the same to us as Southampton and Palace did. It was the same game. This side to side , possession football is now not working.
It is not all about the players, we have to evolve tactically. This has always been Pep’s strength. I hope he has more in his locker because right now it is too easy for average teams to beat us..

 

[WRicko]

Potentially down the line, but both Savona and Hato are primarily powerful fullbacks.

Hato is described as a CB from what I saw online

 

[Gabriel]

Hato is described as a CB from what I saw online

He’s played there but more so at left back. Strong, tall, and tough, he’ll play at the very top.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Cambiaso
The Brazilian
Wirtz
Reinjders

think this'll be it for the 4 in the article. would love a more 'starter' level RB in the mix though over Wesley, but zero links to anyone doable so far.

 

[King Jay]

Very good. Hopefully he isn’t a pushover like txiki
Reinders, Wirtz, Kerkez, Vanderson. ( sadly it will be Cambiasso that average fraud for 60-70M )

 

[It'sBlue93:20]

I’d be guessing that Bernardo is staying now after those comments he made about finding out which players they could go to war with in the difficult moments and saying he has his opinion on how we can go back to where we were from this.

 

[city9320]

Gonzalez hardly plays

Exactly

 

[city9320]

Always?

Kun, DSilva, Vinny, Fern, Rodri, KDB, Bernie, Gundo 1.0 all disagree to name a handful.

If alway our players fizzled we wouldn't have posted some of the greatest football in our lifetime over the last decade plus.

Only 3 of them were Pep signings..

 

[city9320]

That’s not true. We’ve signed plenty of players who have either lived up to their hype or been better than expected:

Sergio
Yaya
Silva
Kdb
Ferds
Rodri
Kompany

To name a few

One Pep signing out of all you've named

 

[skillman]

Huge part of the problem. Either Pep fixes it directly or believes that midfielders running from deep will aid with fixing it. Either way, needs sorting.