Who’s gone in the summer?

[Gabriel]

Always look at players and wonder whether they could yet improve with us or whether they have hit their ceiling. Quite a few in the OP's list have hit their ceiling.

 

[LongsightM13]

Wheres all the Tierney talk come from? For me the kid at AC would be target number 1 in that position

Not a chance Milan sell Hernandez when they’re in with the chance of their first title for a decade or more.
And I dont think we’d go anywhere near Tierney either given his history of injuries

 

[mosssideblue]

Grealish lol

Ignoring his off field misdemeanors, I think he would improve us a lot more than people think

 

[Centurions]

Why would Villa sell him for 80 million when he’s just signed a new long term contract?

Isn't that why they would ask £80mill ?

Edit: or put another way is that why they offered him the long term contract?

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

Out:

Garcia
Mendy
Zinchenko
Fernandinho (and a statue to follow!)

In:

Messi / Haaland (one of the two)
Aouar
Danny Rose
2 x young players who we’ve never heard of (think Ferran)
3 x players who end up on permaloans

Danny Rose as in the Danny Rose who plays for Spurs?

 

[Trojan1962]

Out
zin
Rodri
Sterlng
mahrez
in
Haarland
A mobile CDM

 

[FantasyIreland]

Always look at players and wonder whether they could yet improve with us or whether they have hit their ceiling. Quite a few in the OP's list have hit their ceiling.

Which players?

 

[Gabriel]

Which players?

Of those you listed: Zinchenko, Mahrez, Gundogan, Sterling, and Mendy. I assume Aguero and Fernandinho will leave anyway, but I'd be prepared to give Bernardo one more season to see if he can recapture consistent form and make a position his own. Sterling would be controversial given his age and nationality, but I just wonder if we may not have seen his best already.

We need much higher quality in midfield and attack or risk seeing de Bruyne, our only truly world-class talent (assuming Aguero leaves) stagnate.

 

[Ban-jani]

Out:

Aguero
Mahrez
Zinchenko
Mendy
Fernandinho
Garcia

In:

Messi
Harry Kane
Digne
Angelino (back)

 

[GBrannan]

There’s players we could definitely move because either (based on reports) we have buyouts agreed and then there’s those out of contract.

So they’d be:
Angelino
Harrison
Fernandinho
Aguero.

I think the top three go and probably bring in around £25m and free up 1 squad space. If Aguero can get fit he’ll definitely stay for at least another season.

Then you’d look at Garcia getting sold for £10m or so. So we’d have about £35m but still only one free squad space

After that Zinchenko looks an obvious choice given he’s hardly going to play unless we have big injury problems. In a covid market we’re probably getting around £15-20m.

The rest of our first team squad look difficult to shift without an actual buyer lined up and we may have to do loan deals. For me, based on form thus far, I’d look to move out in order, Mendy, Mahrez and Rodri to cumulatively create up to 5 new births.

So all up, probably with other CFG sales (like Herrera at Granada) and possibly some of the fringe kids we might get another £10-15m, giving us sales of somewhere between £50-75m.

So outs:
Angelino
Harrison
Fernandinho
Zinchenko
Mendy
Mahrez
Rodri
+CFG and academy fringe

In:
At least one proper, top quality left back
2 central midfield players
1 top quality central striker
1 top quality winger (optional)

All of the incoming players have to be good enough to be in our best 11. No depth signings.