Our centre mids...
Delph
Davies
Gomes
Gbamin
Sigurdsson
Allan
Doucoure
No clue on Gbamin but Allan and Doucoure are the only two id keep of that lot. Lets say 3 / 7 we would keep.
For 3 positions we really need to have 5/6 players.
Its still an incredibly weak area for us and we need to sign 2-3 more midfielders.
Its going to take 2 summers i think...
In fact the whole squad recycle should be resolved in summer 2022.
Liverpool: Thiago, Henderson, Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Keita, Oxlade Chamberlain, Jones, Milner.
Chelsea: Kante, Kovacic, Mount, Jorginho, Gilmour, Barkley, Loftus Cheek
City: De Bruyne, Bernardo, Rodri, Gundogan, Fernandinho, Foden
Spurs: Ndombele, Sissoko, Lo Celso, Hojbjerg, Winks, Dele Alli
United: Pogba Fernandes Matic Van Der Beek Mctominay Fred
They’re the 5 teams we have to compete against if we want to be winning trophies and getting top 4 football and look at those midfield as! Every single one of them has at least 6 players all with pace, power, physicality and for most of them durability. Chelsea have two midfielders out on loan who would have walked into our team last night! Yet still some people expect that we are going to go up against these teams on a consistent basis and win with a midfield of Tom Davies and Gylfi Sigurdsson, with old man Coleman at right back and Michael Keane turning like a cruise boat at the back. It’s utterly laughable.
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@Zatara says we need a few more windows until we have a squad where we can match up to those lists above, and not just in midfield in attack and defence too! Until that point we’re just hoping that Ancelotti can outperform all his rivals with a far weaker hand, sometimes he will but sometimes he won’t yet a lot of people seem to be getting very annoyed very quickly every time he fails to win. What else can he do with the hand he’s got? People going on expecting us to be positive and progressive, to ‘have a go’ against United. I’m sure Carlo would love to like he did with his Milan team hen he battered them in the champions league at Old Trafford. When he has a squad with those sort of options in it then you can play in different ways.
At the moment a high defence is completely off the cards because we have utter tosh centrebacks who can barely run or pass a ball. They can’t defend much outside the 6 yard box so flying full backs (if we had any fit) are off the list as well. We have no midfielders fit with any pace apart from Doucoure so a high pressi g game is also impossible. We do have two quick forwards though so sitting deep and playing on the counter with set pieces might be the only route to win. Then one of your quick forwards gets injured so that’s out the window too.
Seriously what are people expecting? Expectations go massively up because Carlo gets a few wins we really shouldn’t be getting through using those exact same tactics and then when one team finally calls us on them people start getting annoyed with him. He’s genuinely the only reason this team isn’t somewhere between 9th and 12th which is where players like Davies Coleman Kenny Sigurdsson Bernard Tosun Keane Mina belong.
The squad is a complete and utter shambles. 5 years of turgid recruitment buying slow weak cowardly players and yet people expect that you can just add Doucoure to that mix and it will suddenly become a trophy winning team that makes top 4. No chance.
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