It looks like our summer business this season will be : Malacia, Martinez, FDJ, Eriksen and Antony.
So our squad will look like this :
Goalkeepers
David De Gea
Tom Heaton
Defenders
Diogo Dalot
Ethan Laird
Raphael Varane
Lisandro Martinez
Victor Lindelof
Harry Maguire
Tyrell Malacia
Luke Shaw
Midfielders
Bruno Fernandes
Fred
Frenkie De Jong
Christian Eriksen
James Garner
Hannibal Mejbri
Scott McTominay
Donny van de Beek
Forwards
Anthony Martial
Marcus Rashford
Jadon Sancho
Antony
Anthony Elanga
Alejandro Garnacho
IF we get those players it won't be too bad. Big IF. Still some weaknesses, like RB. Wonder if Malacia can swap flanks?
I don't see how ETH is going to bench Maguire, but I wish he would.
Bruno as a false 9? 4231? 3 CBs?
VDB in the middle could work, he'd have players around him he could know what to expect them to do, as opposed to when we played him and he looked around and no one understood the concept of a 1-2/give-n-go pass, no one moved into space. I'm tempted to think Martial could thrive as a 9 in ETH's system, then drop Bruno into the middle, but that is expecting ETH to work miracle with the former shell of Martial, who looks like he doesn't want to play football anymore. I really hope Garner gets a fair amount of time to show he can handle this level. I don't see any room for McFred if we get those players mooted.
Guessing ETH's lineups is going to be fun/exhausting!
-----------------------------DeGea------------------------------
Malacia-------Martinez---------Varane-------Shaw
--------------Eriksen-------------DeJong----------------
Antony---------------VDB----------------Sancho
----------------------------Bruno-------------------------