richards30
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Stick Cherki right side and put Nico Gonzalez in instead of Foden and that team would be MEGA!
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Stick Cherki right side and put Nico Gonzalez in instead of Foden and that team would be MEGA!
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There’s only a handful of players I could imagine having a LinkedIn, Gundo is definitely one of them. Cole Palmer not so much.
himalayan_blues
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Been planning the squad for months now...
Too many players to choose.
GK: Ederson/ortega (2)
Defenders: Nunes/Lewis/Akanji/Khusanov/Dias/Stones/Ake/Bah/Givadiol/Nico O reiley/ Reis/ Walker (12)
Midfielders: Rodri/Gundo/Kovacic/Bernardo/Nico gonzalez/Mcatee/ (6)
Attackers: Haaland/marmoush/Foden/ Bobb/Doku/Savinho/ Grealish/ Echheviari (8)
total 28 players.
Far Too many...
We have to sell at least 7 players... Not easy...
Walker gone/ grealish highly likely/ Mcatee easier to sell
Loan: Echieveri/ Reis
We might want to sell but players dont want to; Stones/
Players we want to keep but situations mean they have to be sold or loaned: Lewis/Bah/ Bobb
Plus rumored links: MGW/Reijnners/ At least one full backs
Too many players to choose.
GK: Ederson/ortega (2)
Defenders: Nunes/Lewis/Akanji/Khusanov/Dias/Stones/Ake/Bah/Givadiol/Nico O reiley/ Reis/ Walker (12)
Midfielders: Rodri/Gundo/Kovacic/Bernardo/Nico gonzalez/Mcatee/ (6)
Attackers: Haaland/marmoush/Foden/ Bobb/Doku/Savinho/ Grealish/ Echheviari (8)
total 28 players.
Far Too many...
We have to sell at least 7 players... Not easy...
Walker gone/ grealish highly likely/ Mcatee easier to sell
Loan: Echieveri/ Reis
We might want to sell but players dont want to; Stones/
Players we want to keep but situations mean they have to be sold or loaned: Lewis/Bah/ Bobb
Plus rumored links: MGW/Reijnners/ At least one full backs
OldhamBlue94
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Keepers:
(2 who we sign)
Defenders:
Dias
Akanji
Gvardiol
Khusanov
Ait nouri
Nunes
O’Reilly
Livramento
Midfielders:
Rodri
Gonzales
Reijnders
MGW
Cherki
Foden
Gundogan
Kovacic
Lewis
Silva
Forwards:
Haaland
Marmoush
Bobb
Doku
Savinho
Squad of 25 there which is fully capable of challenging on all fronts!
Outs - walker Kev stones reis(loan) echiverri(loan) Ortega Ederson
Ins - 2 keepers, reijnders MGW Cherki Ait noiri livramento
(2 who we sign)
Defenders:
Dias
Akanji
Gvardiol
Khusanov
Ait nouri
Nunes
O’Reilly
Livramento
Midfielders:
Rodri
Gonzales
Reijnders
MGW
Cherki
Foden
Gundogan
Kovacic
Lewis
Silva
Forwards:
Haaland
Marmoush
Bobb
Doku
Savinho
Squad of 25 there which is fully capable of challenging on all fronts!
Outs - walker Kev stones reis(loan) echiverri(loan) Ortega Ederson
Ins - 2 keepers, reijnders MGW Cherki Ait noiri livramento
PragueBlue
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If Grealish, Walker, Stones, McAtee, Ake go, there is no chance Lewis or Bobb go as they are HG and club trained so we'd have very limited squad size. The only HG players we have been linked with are Livramento (highly unlikely) and MGW.
Our main issue is going to be making room for the non-HG slots of which we can have a maximum of 17. By my reckoning, we currently have 19.
Our main issue is going to be making room for the non-HG slots of which we can have a maximum of 17. By my reckoning, we currently have 19.
PragueBlue
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You need 3 keepers (of which 2 must be on list A for CL).
According to my count, you have 18 non-HG, which we can't have (and that's without the keepers). It would also mean a small CL squad as 8 slots are reserved for HG players, of which only 4 can be association trained, so the other 4 must be club trained.
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Conflicting reports about whether his contract is up this summer or in a year or two, but could do worse than Tyrick Mitchell on a free, especially for homegrown status. Move Gvardiol back to CB and that’s like another signing too.
Seems to be thru to 2027
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IN:
Diogo Costa / a world-class GK
Right-back
Reijnders
OUT:
KDB :'(
Ederson
Grealish
McAtee
Akanji or Ake
Diogo Costa / a world-class GK
Right-back
Reijnders
OUT:
KDB :'(
Ederson
Grealish
McAtee
Akanji or Ake
Must keep all costs
Rodri
Haaland
Gvardiol
Foden
Dias
Definitely keep
Bobb
Mahmoush
Khusanov
Reis
Kovatic
O’Reilly
Nico
Echeverri
makes sense to keep at least 1 more season
Savio
Doku
Rico
Bernardo
Sell if can and either replace or replacement in the squad
Stones/ Ake/ Akanji (not all but 2 would be good)
Nunes
Ortega/ Ederson (again not both and would definitely keep both, but if just feels 1 will go)
Gundogan
KDB (although not much to do here)
Grealish
Carson
Phillips
Walker
Clear needs
GK
RB
LB
MF
Obviously a huge amount in sales, too many that it would be realistic for all listed and so any player not in that list seems we should keep.
Can also see where players such as Nunes and 2 of the CB’s might end up staying
Think we have a huge job on our hands in selling as well as
Rodri
Haaland
Gvardiol
Foden
Dias
Definitely keep
Bobb
Mahmoush
Khusanov
Reis
Kovatic
O’Reilly
Nico
Echeverri
makes sense to keep at least 1 more season
Savio
Doku
Rico
Bernardo
Sell if can and either replace or replacement in the squad
Stones/ Ake/ Akanji (not all but 2 would be good)
Nunes
Ortega/ Ederson (again not both and would definitely keep both, but if just feels 1 will go)
Gundogan
KDB (although not much to do here)
Grealish
Carson
Phillips
Walker
Clear needs
GK
RB
LB
MF
Obviously a huge amount in sales, too many that it would be realistic for all listed and so any player not in that list seems we should keep.
Can also see where players such as Nunes and 2 of the CB’s might end up staying
Think we have a huge job on our hands in selling as well as
It’s not hard
Costa( sadly )
Zetterer
Carson
Livramento( impossible imo)
Khusanov
Reis
Dias
Gvardiol
Ake
Ait Nouri
Lewis
Rodri
Reijnders
Nico
Nico
MGW
Kovacic
Cherki
Savinho
Doku
Foden
Marmoush
Haaland
Out: Bernardo, Grealish, McAtee, Philips, Walker,KDB,Stones, Ederson, Ortega, Gundogan, Akanji, Nunes
Loan: Bah
How wonderful
Costa( sadly )
Zetterer
Carson
Livramento( impossible imo)
Khusanov
Reis
Dias
Gvardiol
Ake
Ait Nouri
Lewis
Rodri
Reijnders
Nico
Nico
MGW
Kovacic
Cherki
Savinho
Doku
Foden
Marmoush
Haaland
Out: Bernardo, Grealish, McAtee, Philips, Walker,KDB,Stones, Ederson, Ortega, Gundogan, Akanji, Nunes
Loan: Bah
How wonderful
Love this. Will make just one adjustment. Keep Akanji over Ake. Ake is a better defender but Akanji is far far more reliable.
That above though is the perfect squad.
I don’t know if loaning out Echeverri/ Reis is the right thing ä. They need to get used to the country . Loaning them out might be troublesome. Especially when we paid 30M for Reis. Would rather give up Akanji.
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There's 2 systems I can envision:
System 1: A 4231 with one fullback going wide, and the other side a wide winger.
This system requires less players to bring in and uses more of the CBs (for example both Ake and Akanji are kept), really only has me bringing in Ait Nouri, Reijnders and Cherki. It's probably more realistic to accomplish.
Solid core of 21, with: O Reilly, Lewis and Echeverri as reserves to make it 24. Bernie and Gundogan out or reserves as well (but then squad is at 26).
left footed players wide left, right footed players wide right. Tricky dribblers, crossers, to get the ball into the centre for the the players to do the damage. Savio can't score, and Doku isn't finding his man on the left, swap them and turn them purely into creators in better situations.
I think this actually works pretty well, and uses the current squad to the most.
System 2: But the formation I like more is with double wide fullbacks, which requires slightly more investment (basically just a RB) and more to clear out (which is another reason its trickier), and would look like this:
Solid core of 21 again, with: Akanji, Lewis, Echeverri, Reis as reserves to make it 25. Bernie and Gundogan out or reserves (and even worse, squad at 27!)
This ones harder to do since I've added a proper RB, so it's 1 more player making the squad a bit bloated.
This doubles down on wide fullbacks and inside forwards, and hoping that Doku and Savio can also adapt to this new role (they would be backups anyways, so they have time).
I personally like this more as it's more attacking and against low blocks, I think those 3 in narrow positions behind Haaland is better than only 2 behind Haaland in System 1.
System 1: A 4231 with one fullback going wide, and the other side a wide winger.
This system requires less players to bring in and uses more of the CBs (for example both Ake and Akanji are kept), really only has me bringing in Ait Nouri, Reijnders and Cherki. It's probably more realistic to accomplish.
Solid core of 21, with: O Reilly, Lewis and Echeverri as reserves to make it 24. Bernie and Gundogan out or reserves as well (but then squad is at 26).
left footed players wide left, right footed players wide right. Tricky dribblers, crossers, to get the ball into the centre for the the players to do the damage. Savio can't score, and Doku isn't finding his man on the left, swap them and turn them purely into creators in better situations.
I think this actually works pretty well, and uses the current squad to the most.
System 2: But the formation I like more is with double wide fullbacks, which requires slightly more investment (basically just a RB) and more to clear out (which is another reason its trickier), and would look like this:
Solid core of 21 again, with: Akanji, Lewis, Echeverri, Reis as reserves to make it 25. Bernie and Gundogan out or reserves (and even worse, squad at 27!)
This ones harder to do since I've added a proper RB, so it's 1 more player making the squad a bit bloated.
This doubles down on wide fullbacks and inside forwards, and hoping that Doku and Savio can also adapt to this new role (they would be backups anyways, so they have time).
I personally like this more as it's more attacking and against low blocks, I think those 3 in narrow positions behind Haaland is better than only 2 behind Haaland in System 1.
------------------------Gk
Khusanov---Rodri---Dias-----Gvardiol
----------------- Camavinga
------------Foden---------Reijnders
Chekri-----------Haaland----------Marmoush
Treble run in vibes. Camavinga should beg his agent to get to play as a 6 for Pep. Rodri becomes the new Stones. There's not enough width, but damn it I want to jam camavinga in here.
Khusanov---Rodri---Dias-----Gvardiol
----------------- Camavinga
------------Foden---------Reijnders
Chekri-----------Haaland----------Marmoush
Treble run in vibes. Camavinga should beg his agent to get to play as a 6 for Pep. Rodri becomes the new Stones. There's not enough width, but damn it I want to jam camavinga in here.
ngl, System 2 looks very good
PragueBlue
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Not bad but I think you might be struggling to meet the squad quotas unless both keepers are HG.