I agree. Which is why we needed a player in the Mainoo mould, in that profile, not an AM like Mount.
As for the playing both Bruno and Mount idea, yeah we have already seen that doesnt work. If Bruno was Modric/KdB/Odegaard it could have...
Not in great shape no, but we have to prioritise since we dont have unlimited money. We made the same mistake last season when we bought an AM when we needed CMs, and didnt get more defenders and instead went for GK(which was probably lower in...
Shaw has injury problems sure, Malacia was very competent replacement when we got him last season, many were praising him. Nobody knows how's he gonna recover from the injury though, so that makes the Fernandez transfer even more weirder.
But...
He cannot do what Mainoo does, nor can he do what Casemiro does.
Which is why he made absolutely zero fecking sense to buy in the summer to anyone who understands football.
But we keep buying AMs and either dont play them or play them in the...
Centre Back
Right Back
Defensive Mid
Centre Mid
Versatile Forward
Sell : AWB(20M), Lindelof(10M), McTominay(40M), Eriksen, Sancho(30M), Martial, Greenwood(25M).
These are the five profiles I would target. We could easily get 5 players in and...
He's the same size as Martinez and Nketiah/Jesus.
Not the biggest lad, but if he can strengthen up a bit more, he will handle PL fine no issues. He's got the skill.
Last season we needed a CF, centreback, couple of midfielders, GK and a fullback(probably in that order). We had a 200M budget.
We just got the GK(debatable upgrade) and the CF(young talent). We blew the rest of the money on an attacking...