The Squad planning thread

Gabriel said:
How many times are we selling Savinho? ;-)

We can’t be selling them all and we certainly can’t be losing value on so many.
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Yeah good point on savinho!
The fees are a bit low as I don’t think all will leave
But the point is it’s a huge amount
 
blueparrot said:
Way too much churn with a new manager coming in , the squad has been rebuiltover the last few windows for a reason,not have have a massive reboot this summer. There may be one or two we would prefer not to do but the hope will be that we only need to bring in 2 or 3.
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We need players to come into the 11
Too many players who clearly weren’t trusted

I reckon a minimum 5 will come in

Still leaves a core of 15 players plus signings
Donarumma
Nunes
Gvardiol
Dias
Reiss
Guehi
Khusanov
O Reilly
Ait nouri
Rodri
Foden
Cherki
Doku
Semenyo
Haaland
 
Tb1981 said:
We need players to come into the 11
Too many players who clearly weren’t trusted

I reckon a minimum 5 will come in

Still leaves a core of 15 players plus signings
Donarumma
Nunes
Gvardiol
Dias
Reiss
Guehi
Khusanov
O Reilly
Ait nouri
Rodri
Foden
Cherki
Doku
Semenyo
Haaland
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We need to be carefull, assuming Trafford and Lewis go that's 2 squad places we lose and can't really replace unless we buy former academy club trained players, the 4 homegrown spotsare filled so all we have to play with including a new keeper and right back are the 17 free spots.
 
blueparrot said:
Way too much churn with a new manager coming in , the squad has been rebuiltover the last few windows for a reason,not have have a massive reboot this summer. There may be one or two we would prefer not to do but the hope will be that we only need to bring in 2 or 3.
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I agree. Too many people here are writing off players such as Gonzalez, Reijnders, and Marmoush, but if you look at them now from when they arrived, you can see a huge change in their physical development. We might yet lose someone like Savinho, who probably thinks his lack of game time resulted in him missing out on the World Cup, but otherwise the current squad has been well assembled. If we add Reis and Anderson, maybe one more (depending on outgoings) we are set. The more churn, the more disruption, and the less likely we are to win the League, again. We really don’t want to go three seasons without a League title.
 
richards30 said:
Get me Anderson and either Palestra or Read in ASAP and the the rest can be done depending on who leaves.
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Pretty much how I'm feeling

Those 2 add what we desperately lack

Anderson gives energy, purpose & steel to our passive and legless midfield and Palestra gives relentless energy and calming ability on the ball to do what Lewis has unfortunately been unable to do

The other moves are direct replacements for those that leave, namely a senior CB like Dias/Gvardiol, Marmsoush, Savinho and Nico G
 
handsofstone said:
Pretty much how I'm feeling

Those 2 add what we desperately lack

Anderson gives energy, purpose & steel to our passive and legless midfield and Palestra gives relentless energy and calming ability on the ball to do what Lewis has unfortunately been unable to do

The other moves are direct replacements for those that leave, namely a senior CB like Dias/Gvardiol, Marmsoush, Savinho and Nico G
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But if Savinho leaves i`d love us to be brave and get Diomande and if Kovacic leaves bring Maza in.
 
I think we want Read but his club want a record sale. So the other links to Porro and Palestra are back up options as they maybe cheaper.
 
Tb1981 said:
I can see us going huge this summer
Let’s say we sell the following
Marmoush £40m
Nico G £40m
Trafford £40m
Reijnders £40m
Ake £10m
Savinho £40m
Lewis £25m

Plus Grealish, Bah, Etcheverri, kovacic. Alleyne, akanji, labour,

That’s £225m with realistic fees. Maybe we won’t sell all of them but that’s a war chest before we add some
We could be looking at £400m
That’s two £100m players and maybe four £50m players

If we get it right (ala not Liverpool last year) we can really step up the squad.

Viana will be keen to build his squad
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Who is Labour ? I think one or more of Bah Etcheverri, Alleyne etc stay either in the team or out on loan
 
WallyA said:




Here are recent highlight videos comparing Diomande and Barcola for those interested.

What standouts to me is Barcola uses his speed across big distances to a great advantage for him... but you can see his dribbling and control is not elite, he often plays kick the ball and chase football you see kids play, and probably why he got replaced with the Georgian player (whose name I wont search to type).

Now look at Diomande his entire highlight reel is being surrounded and using tight dribbling to get out of it, what City deals with on the daily. Much better suited to us and the overall better player.
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Agree, both very good but Diomande seems to have more weapons, he’s much better on his weaker foot than Barcola for a start
 
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