by Sanchino » Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:24 pm
Bodacious Benny wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:24 pm
Yeah, I think with Pope + Karius we're fine (regardless of if Dubravka stays or not).
Agree that new LB and new CB are needed, I'd still get a specialist DM in though.
RW definitely needed, and striker too.
Yeah fair point. Instead of getting a Ritchie replacement just have Big Joe or Willock playing LW (if needed) and have Gordon as first choice competing with Banes. RW definitely crucial.. Love Miggy but don't think he's gonna take us to the next level we need a Neto/Olise/Bowen type player who can assist/score consistently. Murphy as we all know can be a handy squad player and young Minteh can come in pre season and see if he's good enough to be in and around the squad too, while Anderson can cover the right-hand side if needed too as he's played there before and looks OK.
GK : Pope, Karius/Dubra, ??
RB : Trips, Tino, Kraft
CB : Botman, NEW CB?
CB : Schar, Burn
LB : NEW LB, Targett
CM (DM) : NEW DM, Big Joe
CM : Bruno, Miley, Longstaff
CM: Tonali, Willock, Anderson
RW : NEW RW, Murphy, Minteh??
ST : Isak, NEW ST
LW : Gordon, Barnes
Realistic targets .. players that we could get not Kylian Mbappes' or Haaland type players OK
Potential NEW CBs : Pascel Struijik, Bella-Kotchap, Lacroix, Joe Gomez, Trevoh Chalobah, Lloyd Kelly, Eric Garcia, Zeno Debast, Ozan Kaback (Mainly under 27s with good potential)
Potential NEW DMs : Rueben Neves, Joao Neves, Onana, Florentino, Andre, Mohamed Camara, Alan Valera, Nicolo Rovella, Fabinho (mainly under 25s with good potential apart from Fabihno whos 30)
Potential NEW LBs : Estupinan, Theo Hernandez, Rico Henry, Tyrick Mitchell, Renan Lodi, Antonee Robinson (mainly under 27s)
Potential new RWs : Neto, Bowen, Olise, Nicolas Gonzalez, Johan Bakayoko, Bryan Mbeumo, Yeremy Pino, Marcus Edwards, Summervile, Ritsu Doan (all mainly under 27s)
Potential new STs : Jonathan David, Elye Wahi, Guirassay, Nketiah, Toney, Solanke, Folarian Balogun, Evanilson, Jonas Wind
I think all of these players would either improve the starting XI or improve the overall squad quality.
Potential outs include Ritchie, Dummet, Lascelles, Miggy/Murphy and Wilson. if a good offer came in for Longstaff I wouldn't say no to either but we need home grown/certain amount of English players so can't sell them all.
[quote="Bodacious Benny" post_id=917440 time=1709047443 user_id=140]
Yeah, I think with Pope + Karius we're fine (regardless of if Dubravka stays or not).
Agree that new LB and new CB are needed, I'd still get a specialist DM in though.
RW definitely needed, and striker too.
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Yeah fair point. Instead of getting a Ritchie replacement just have Big Joe or Willock playing LW (if needed) and have Gordon as first choice competing with Banes. RW definitely crucial.. Love Miggy but don't think he's gonna take us to the next level we need a Neto/Olise/Bowen type player who can assist/score consistently. Murphy as we all know can be a handy squad player and young Minteh can come in pre season and see if he's good enough to be in and around the squad too, while Anderson can cover the right-hand side if needed too as he's played there before and looks OK.
GK : Pope, Karius/Dubra, ??
RB : Trips, Tino, Kraft
CB : Botman, NEW CB?
CB : Schar, Burn
LB : NEW LB, Targett
CM (DM) : NEW DM, Big Joe
CM : Bruno, Miley, Longstaff
CM: Tonali, Willock, Anderson
RW : NEW RW, Murphy, Minteh??
ST : Isak, NEW ST
LW : Gordon, Barnes
[b]Realistic targets [/b].. players that we could get not Kylian Mbappes' or Haaland type players OK <laugh>
[b]Potential NEW CBs :[/b] Pascel Struijik, Bella-Kotchap, Lacroix, Joe Gomez, Trevoh Chalobah, Lloyd Kelly, Eric Garcia, Zeno Debast, Ozan Kaback (Mainly under 27s with good potential)
[b]Potential NEW DMs[/b] : Rueben Neves, Joao Neves, Onana, Florentino, Andre, Mohamed Camara, Alan Valera, Nicolo Rovella, Fabinho (mainly under 25s with good potential apart from Fabihno whos 30)
[b]Potential NEW LBs : [/b]Estupinan, Theo Hernandez, Rico Henry, Tyrick Mitchell, Renan Lodi, Antonee Robinson (mainly under 27s)
[b]Potential new RWs [/b]: Neto, Bowen, Olise, Nicolas Gonzalez, Johan Bakayoko, Bryan Mbeumo, Yeremy Pino, Marcus Edwards, Summervile, Ritsu Doan (all mainly under 27s)
[b]Potential new STs [/b] : Jonathan David, Elye Wahi, Guirassay, Nketiah, Toney, Solanke, Folarian Balogun, Evanilson, Jonas Wind
I think all of these players would either improve the starting XI or improve the overall squad quality.
Potential outs include Ritchie, Dummet, Lascelles, Miggy/Murphy and Wilson. if a good offer came in for Longstaff I wouldn't say no to either but we need home grown/certain amount of English players so can't sell them all.