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Our signings since the Champions League final

Yiddo said:
Yeah but everyone was excited by them when they signed. I think a lot of people on here were wishing for Ndombele and Lo Celso.
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Yes i did think Ndomb would be great but like most people that was from seeing his youtube highlights reel. Lo Celso i never thought would be any good in the PL.
 
Raziel said:
Talking about the CL final brings into play a whole other conversation

- Poch (and no, don't want to discuss) and certain players had burnt out, Eriksen, Toby, Jan were done, Dembele was gone, Son and Kane were close to peak, so long term rebuild needed

But discussing the players we have, said it elsewhere

- Udogie, VDV, Danso, Romero, Porro, Spence, Palhinha, Gallagher, Gray, Bergvall, Deki, Kudus, Maddison, Xavi, Odobert, Solanke is 16 players that don't need replacing, they are fine
- For balance we need another LB and a CM that can help with possession and creativity.
- For upgrades, we need a better GK and a CF to compete with Solanke

If you stuck Donnarumma, Wharton and Ivan Toney in this side, nobody would say the team is brick or unable to make top 4.

To play that out, a 150-200M (less than we gave Ange) should get the squad where we need it, to regain normal place, to push back to challenging would probably need another window or two.
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I’d take Palhinha and even before the injury Odobert out of that. We also don’t know how Kulusevski & Maddison will look when they come back.

But I agree we dont need a huge squad overhaul. Especially with no Europe next season that gives Poch 5 days a wee on the training pitch getting them super fit.

Add in Vuskovic & Moore coming back. Byfield & W.Barrett too.
 
robp135 said:
Didn’t we pick Lo Celso over Bruno Fernandes?
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We went for the cheaper option as we couldn't agree a fee with Sporting for Fernandes.

Raziel said:
Talking about the CL final brings into play a whole other conversation

- Poch (and no, don't want to discuss) and certain players had burnt out, Eriksen, Toby, Jan were done, Dembele was gone, Son and Kane were close to peak, so long term rebuild needed

But discussing the players we have, said it elsewhere

- Udogie, VDV, Danso, Romero, Porro, Spence, Palhinha, Gallagher, Gray, Bergvall, Deki, Kudus, Maddison, Xavi, Odobert, Solanke is 16 players that don't need replacing, they are fine
- For balance we need another LB and a CM that can help with possession and creativity.
- For upgrades, we need a better GK and a CF to compete with Solanke

If you stuck Donnarumma, Wharton and Ivan Toney in this side, nobody would say the team is brick or unable to make top 4.

To play that out, a 150-200M (less than we gave Ange) should get the squad where we need it, to regain normal place, to push back to challenging would probably need another window or two.
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This needs a left side attacker, a passing capable CM a goalkeeper and a starting class striker. Then we look into other questions like Porro/Spence are they actually good enough? The same questions with Udogie and Souza. I'd also ideally like a more rounded DM, so someone more in the Wharton/Gomes mode.
 
robp135 said:
No real logic to this as there is context to every signing. For the most part the issue is not the individual players it’s the overall strategy. Example Bergvall, Gray, Odobert are all signings we should be making but you cannot exclusively be making those signings.

For reference in my view a 9/10 signing would be players like Lloris, Vertonghen, Son etc. 10/10 would need to be held for players that win a league title or a UCL. So Dave Mackay 🤣

8/10
Mikey van de Ven £35M
Luka Vuskovic £10M

7/10
Cristian Romero £50M
Pedro Porro £45M
James Maddison £45M
Dejan Kulusevski £35M
Lucas Bergvall £18M

6/10
Xavi Simons £60M
Dominic Solanke £60M
Mohammed Kudus £55M
Archie Gray £40M
Connor Gallagher £35M
Kevin Danso £20M
Rodrigo Bentancur £17M
Destiny Udogie £16M
Pape Matar Sarr £15M
Djed Spence £14M
Pierre Emile Hojbjerg £12M

5/10
Richarlison £53M
Brennan Johnson £50M
Guilermo Vicario £15M
Joao Palhinha LOAN £5M
Gareth Bale LOAN
Ivan Perisic Free

4/10
Mathys Tel £40M
Stephen Bergwijn £27M
Wilson Odobert £27M
Yves Bissouma £25M
Antonin Kinsky £15M
Souza £12M
Kota Takei £4M
Yang min Hyeok £3M
Ashley Phillips £2M

3/10
Giovanni Lo Celso £40M
Sergio Regulion £27M
Ryan Sessegnon £25M
Radu Dragusin £20M
Matt Doherty £13M
Joe Rodon £10M
Carlos Vinicius LOAN £2.5M
Randall Kolo Muani LOAN
Pierluigi Gollini LOAN
Joe Hart Free
Manor Solomon Free

2/10
Tanguy Ndombele £55M
Emerson Royal £20M
Alejo Veliz £12M
Jack Clarke £10M
Timo Werner LOAN

1/10
Bryan Gil £20M + Lamela
Gedson Fernandes Loan £4M
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I think that’s pretty fair, a few of those younger guys like Xavi, Tel, Odobert, Gray, Bergvall etc could all move up in time.
 
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