@nsno-chris @USABlue
@Connor is right, Pickford and Keane would start. One being a hugely talented keeper and 'available' from a relegated side (soon) and the other massively linked and with a year left on his contract. I want us to bring in defenders who have 'pace' and from what I read on here Keane is the quickest in the burnley side. Signing him and with Holgate to his right means that side is sorted and allows us to play a high defensive line as long as we sort the left side out.
Pickford has the best distribution in the league and if we do have a high line he can act as a 'quarterback' (yes I used that word lol ) and we then have the ability to pin teams in their own half.
We have signed DCL, Holgate and Galloway for reasonable fees and 11mil odd for Lookman. If Walsh is serious about hovering up the best young talent then Sessegnon looks to be a potential superstar at left back and I doubt being behind Baines would faze him as hes smashed the championship at 16. Abraham could well be the (EDIT:eventual) replacement for Lukaku or at least a very good 'lukaku-lite' player on the bench.
@bluestevon I'd probably take Butland over Pickford and at 6'5 he's 4 inches taller BUT our only hope is to offer huge money for him and hope stoke would sell as they don't want to risk another long term injury...Pickford is the more likely signing I think as hes available.
I think these 4 signings would be good.
1 first choice keeper
1 first choice centre back
1 squad left back
1 squad centre forward
All of them will end up being England internationals I think.
@BrendanGOT I cant speak for others but at the moment we have, Holgate/Davies/Lookman who seem like theyre potential England players as well as Barkley of course. There's a couple of reasons why I like the idea of having England players;
1 -- Improves our standing in the English media + globally to showcase the club
2 -- Players want to play for their country and if we have England players then others will want to join to play with them and get into the England side themselves,
3 -- Similar to 2, young local lads will want to be signed by walsh as they see us giving opportunities to English kids and have a better chance for games than other sides who sign foreign kids...they get to play with England internationals and recognition of their talents to southgate
4 -- We need to have home grown players, better to have the best ones we can get
5 -- Over the years, the best sides usually have a solid core of English players with foreign stars added
6 -- Very good to harvest a club culture and camaraderie with a lot of local players
7 -- Long term, meaning that generally English players will stay at a club longer than foreign players who may want to go abroad/homesick
8-- Strength in numbers so no tapping up on England duty, we would be the ones tapping up other internationals
Also, I think it would be cool to have several England international players in the team. if we signed butland/pickford and keane then add in barkley and potentially davies + one or two others and we would have 4+ lads in there...
