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Let’s move on from those with poor injury records. Easy to love Olise, Neto but availability is just as important as character and of course ability.
You can add Sess to your out list. We need injury adverse players to fight in four competitions so I have some doubts about some of your choices. Also not sure what your plan is for the youth coming through. You can loan out players for one year and then they will be looking to be in the 25 man squad. Problem is you have filled the squad with players on 5+ years contracts. With the variance in European rules and prem rules on home grown players it is not just about picking your favourite choices.I think we need 3 more transfer windows to get the squad at the levels required.
15 OUT and 7 IN plus Werner. The following need to go;
Forster
Whiteman
Emerson
spence
Rodon
Tanganga
Davies
Reguilon
Skipp
Hojberg
Ndombele
GLC (1 yr contract)
Gill
Solomon
Richarlsion (need a better striker)
So we need to scout a new;
Back up GK: Sam Johnstone (HG)
Back up RB: Kyle Walker-Peters (HG)
Back up LCB/LB: Lloyd Kelly (HG)
Starting/rotating CDM: Archie Grey (HG)
Starting RWF: Michael Olise (HG)
Starting CF: Ivan Toney (HG)
Starting LWF: Eberiche Eze (HG)
All Home Grown...
This will take 3 to 4 windows
Loan 24/25;
Vuskavic
Dorrington
Phillips
Donley
Devine
Scarlett
Veliz
Parrot
Vicario
Johnstone
Porro Romero VDV Udogie
KWP Dragusin Kelly (Kelly)
Grey
Bissouma/Bentancur
Sarr Maddison
Bergvall Kulusevski
Olise Toney Eze
Johnson Son Werner
You can add Sess to your out list. We need injury adverse players to fight in four competitions so I have some doubts about some of your choices. Also not sure what your plan is for the youth coming through. You can loan out players for one year and then they will be looking to be in the 25 man squad. Problem is you have filled the squad with players on 5+ years contracts. With the variance in European rules and prem rules on home grown players it is not just about picking your favourite choices.
It’s not easy but we must be seen to be integrating players from our youth set up or we will not be attractive to recruitment of youth in the future.
19 starts and 15 goals (45 shots)
PL experience
24 years old
Quick
6ft 4
Club potentially need the cash
0.85 goals per 90 minutes, as opposed to 0.80 for Haaland and 0.75 for Salah
I want Alexander Isak
Who's with me?
19 starts and 15 goals (45 shots)
PL experience
24 years old
Quick
6ft 4
Club potentially need the cash
0.85 goals per 90 minutes, as opposed to 0.80 for Haaland and 0.75 for Salah
I want Alexander Isak
Who's with me?
19 starts and 15 goals (45 shots)
PL experience
24 years old
Quick
6ft 4
Club potentially need the cash
0.85 goals per 90 minutes, as opposed to 0.80 for Haaland and 0.75 for Salah
I want Alexander Isak
Who's with me?
I don't rate Watkins at all, I'd take Solanke over him hands down as well.I am, he's brillant. Id take him over Watkins hands down, but they wont sell to us.
He'd be perfect though.
Rich was £13m less in guaranteed money.I wanted us to target him badly (I banged on about him on here for a while) heading into Conte's second year. He played some LW at Real Sociedad so thought he could be the Kane "understudy" while also filling in at LW/RW like Richarlison did.
We actually spent similar money on Richy (prob a little cheaper) too compared to what Newcastle paid for him I believe.
TBF we probably got what we paid for and as did they. Richy is probably a little better than most on here make him out to be and Isak does take their pens so his return is slightly inflated. You really need 100m or so these days to get a good striker, crazy!
In regards to strikers I think I’ve changed my opinion on Vlahovic. My biggest concern over him as I’ve mentioned numerous times in the transfer thread has been around his persistent injury issues. It was never a question of ability for me just constant injury problems which made him a complete write off. This season he seems to have shaken them off on the whole. He still picked up a few but only missed 3 games in total.
In regards to profile I think he is absolutely perfect for us. Big, fast, technical, good hold up play, great ball striking ability and an aerial threat in the box plus he’s still only 24. 16 goals in 28 games this season, some of them world class finishes and most importantly his contract only has 2 years to run and Juve, as with Chiesa, are struggling to renew.
If he can remain fit for the rest of the season I would be seriously considering him come summer as an option if we were to move on Richy. Tbh Juve really need cash, I would certainly be keeping an eye on a number of their players this summer in case we can snatch a few talents off them. Vlahovic, Chiesa, Yildiz, Soulé, Nonge, Miretti, Iling-Junior etc etc. They actually have some very exciting players in their squad.
I feel like every single day I see quotes from him talking about how much he wants to stay at Juve.In regards to strikers I think I’ve changed my opinion on Vlahovic. My biggest concern over him as I’ve mentioned numerous times in the transfer thread has been around his persistent injury issues. It was never a question of ability for me just constant injury problems which made him a complete write off. This season he seems to have shaken them off on the whole. He still picked up a few but only missed 3 games in total.
In regards to profile I think he is absolutely perfect for us. Big, fast, technical, good hold up play, great ball striking ability and an aerial threat in the box plus he’s still only 24. 16 goals in 28 games this season, some of them world class finishes and most importantly his contract only has 2 years to run and Juve, as with Chiesa, are struggling to renew.
If he can remain fit for the rest of the season I would be seriously considering him come summer as an option if we were to move on Richy. Tbh Juve really need cash, I would certainly be keeping an eye on a number of their players this summer in case we can snatch a few talents off them. Vlahovic, Chiesa, Yildiz, Soulé, Nonge, Miretti, Iling-Junior etc etc. They actually have some very exciting players in their squad.
There’s been quotes like that fairly regularly all season. Supposedly he was close to signing last year and in Jan etc. same for Chiesa. Maybe it happens of course but I don’t necessarily think it’s a forgone conclusion given Juve’s financials. I just think it’s a situation to monitor as Juve really need money if they want to improve their squadI feel like every single day I see quotes from him talking about how much he wants to stay at Juve.
This is from today:
Dusan #Vlahovic confirms to SerieA Channel: “I would like to stay at #Juventus for many years”. Talks in progress to try to reach an agreement to extend the contract until 2028. #transfers
Can narrow down your list a fair bit anyway.As for wingers which we desperately need I like:
•Raphinia
•Raphael Leao
•Kvaratskhelia
•Chiesa
•N.Williams
•Lozano or Insigne
•Bakayoko
•Neto
•Berardi
•Olise
•Mitoma
•Fuhrich
•Ocampos
•Gordon
•F.Torres
•Jota (former Celtic one)
•Sancho
•Kudus
Beyond that we can also look at the likes of Jonathan Rowe, Gnoto, Sulemana from the Championship but I’d like to see us sign a top top class ST & Winger and then one of the above 3 more for longer term development.