Who joins us in January?

Marmoush at a push although have left it late with Arsenal but the other two not this season. I would keep Grealish for this season and give McAtee one more crack. We won't get a DM and we should really aim for another defender with Ake's hamstring issues.
 
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Seriously we've known our problems and who we need from 2 months ago.. how have these problems not been addressed?

Do we need to sack someone??
We’ve known our problems and who we need since January 2023 in the FA Cup game against Arsenal when Lewis played right back and didn’t look great defensively either through lack of defensive quality as a player, being too young or a mixture of both. Then with Walker starting to be inconsistent as he’s aged and him being out of the team a fair bit in the treble run-in that season (I think he recognised this as well which is why he wanted to leave).

Then from September 2023 when Rodri got sent off and we lost every game without him when De Bruyne was also missing through injury. They’re our best two players and we need much better quality players to step in when they’re not there. Remember when we had these midfield options: Fernandinho Rodri Gündoğan DSilva BSilva DeBruyne Foden mostly all in their prime or, in the case with the over30s at that time, all playing as well with few injury worries as they were in their prime?! Thats the greatest collection of midfielders, probably of all-time in the sport.

And not only not learning from that but then putting the same pressure on another area of the pitch with Álvarez and Delap leaving and not signing a replacement, leaving us with one sole striker in the entire squad.

Plus when you look at the low quality - to what’s really required at the very top level - of some of the players we have signed over the last few years…

Thankfully, we’ve got more right than we’ve got wrong over the years since the takeover. But fuck me, this has been a poor last few years in strategy and quality.

Whether that’s due to lack of operating profit and worrying about FFP+PSR, whether that’s worrying about what might come in terms of a fine from the PL115/130 case, or whether the PL115/130 case is stopping players from wanting to sign for us while that’s hanging over our head (I wouldn’t go and change jobs to a company that had charges hanging over them)… whatever might be the cause, I do think the time is right for Begiristain to be leaving.
 
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