Sounds a lot better when you put it this way - he won the league in France (beating PSG) despite having fonte as a cb partner.
So because Renato Sanches is injured, or permanently injured in your eyes, that means he’s not a top 4 player? That would be the 24 year old Renato Sanches that Liverpool were interested in buying, the same guy that ran the show for Portugal during the Euros, won the league title this year with Lille, and who Bayern Munich paid over £30mill for? Sanches walks into all the top 4 teams. He’s better than Rodri, Gundogan, Fernandinho, Henderson, Keita, Milner, Fred, Mctominay, Matic, Kovacic, and anyone from Arsenal and Tottenham.
Ridsdale gave people like Seth Johnson what they wanted. I’m talking proven quality to push us to the next level (Renato Sanches). Big difference.
Why not? If you make signings like that you have to play them. There is no point keeping them for 2 years to not give them a go and let them disappear. He's not 12.
It may have been my post you’re referring to, and to be fair I believe I actually said if our 6 forwards can get 40 between them, which is averaging about 7 each and the rest of the squad can get 15-20 between them then we’d be on for our best goal scoring season in the PL.
No. The evidence is that only Raul (and Jota) are capable of lifting us above that 35 goal mark.
No that side isn't better than Leicester's side. It is probably a side that can push top 6,you also ignored the key point i made about depth. 11 players is unlikely to get you top 4.
Why does how much he cost matter? Kilman cost peanuts, he looks class.
Sounds about right unless something particularly egregious happens.
I would be more reassured if any of those "senior executives" (other than Sellars whose background is in Academies which means that he's arguably less qualified than Arteta who is doing so well) actually had any football knowledge whatsoever. Without that their value assessment is likely flawed as a minimum.
They re very welcome to come and do a live chat with us
In our first season back we got 47, Raul got 13, Jota 9 and everyone else no more than 4. So more than half our goals came from the rest of the squad despite none scoring more than 4.
I can’t be bothered to argue with you about Sanches, but if you think that Leicester have a better team or even squad than the team that I just showed you, a team in which Marc Albrighton, Ayoze Perez, Jonny Evans are regulars, not to mention dross like Amartey, Thomas, Mendy and Choudhary stinking out the bench, it’s not me that’s delusional. They only have one forward player that would even get near our team and that’s Vardy, and he’s about 50 years old.
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Further evidence of what ALOB Shi has spouted this week.even MM doesnt understand our transfer strategy
McCarthy baffled by Wolves' Moore chase and his verdict on Josh Murphy's future
The manager spoke about the last throes of transfer deadline day and what he made of the deals that did and did not happen
Dross like Thomas? He's a promising 20 year old. Daka and Iheanacho are both much better than Fabio at this point. Barnes and Maddison are better than Podence. Tielemans and Ndidi is very comparable to Neves and Sanches. Their CBs are miles better, Evans is better than any of ours and is 3rd choice. Keeper is better as well.
If he asked searching questions, he wouldn't get any more exclusives.
Yeah but it's really cheap for the first six months.
solutions?!!!!
Perhaps it's a Portuguese thing.... lol
Loves a solution does the Portugeezers!
Zero guarantees he'd push us on. Everything is a punt. Sanches is just a more educated punt than Seth lol.
The key phrase for me in that statement is ‘I analysed the squad and I created a profile for the positions we need to improve.’ Excluding RAN who was already here I can see how Sa fits into Bruno’s style better than Rui but are Mosquera and Hwang better than we’ve got? Trincao may be a step up but needs more time but the biggest elephant in the room is midfield followed by a lack of options at the back. Get a decent Centre-Half and we can play 4-2-3-1 with good options behind Raul and the existing midfield can play the 2. Without the Centre Half we need more dynamism in midfield. We are betwixt and between due to our lack of signings in these key positions.
Yes, I understand that. The question is "where will we be at the point we know Raul needs replacing?". If we *know* he needs replacing, it will be because he just isn't scoring, so most likely we will be struggling and in trouble. Though really, things are never that clear cut, which is why we have all these differences of opinion.
He will be somewhere between 0 and 10 goals, with the usual spectrum of opinion on whether he needs replacing or will "come good give him time". Whatever, a genuine back up would be my preferred way to handle the situation.