Squad Harmony and Balance are also key to having great depth, assuming we actually qualify for CL and do not bottle the last 2 games ; we simply need to do some serious work with the youth and recruitment and it can’t be all done in one summer window however this would be a seriously wonderful start ;
so here’s my suggestion;
Goalkeepers - Keep De Gea, S Romero , L Grant - loan out Dean Henderson for one more season with a view to making him our No 1 for 2021/22 with a £5m loan fee Paid by Sheffield United and De Gea will be either sold or fight for his place However if in great form he could still vetch £50M to a team like PSG with 3 years left on his contract !
Full Backs/Wing Backs - A Wan Bissaka, E Laird, B Williams, L Shaw - Buy B Chillwell or D Alaba £55M sell D Dalot£25M, TFM(loan £2.5M)
L Shaw can play in a 3 Man Defence and no coincidence our left side been shit since he’s injured !!
Centre Backs - H Maguire, C Smalling, E Bailly , A Tuanzebe - Buy K Koulibaly or Skriniar £65M, Sell Lindelof 30M, P Jones 10M, M Rojo 5M
Midfield - P Pogba, N Matic, Fred, S Mctominay, Bruno , J Garner , H Mejbri
- Buy C Eriksen, J Rodriguez , A Ramsey or J Grealish - £25M- 50M sell, J Lingard £20M, A Pereira £20M , J Mata (Free )
Attack - M Rashford , A Martial, M Greenwood, D James - Buy J Sancho £100M, O Igalho £15M , Sell A Sánchez 15M, T Chong (Loan 2.5M)
Total Cost in new player sales £260M
Total Received in player Sales & Loans £120M
Net Sales -£140M amortised over 5 years plus A player like Alaba is so versatile he can play anywhere and still be the best player !!!
First 11 For CL and Pl
D De Gea
AWB. H Maguire. *K Koulibaly *D Alaba
P Pogba N Matic
*J Sancho. B Fernandes M Rashford
A Martial / M Greenwood
Fa Cup and League Cup / 2nd 11
S Romero
BW/EL. C Smalling AT/ EB. L Shaw
Fred/ JG S Mctominay/ H Mejbri
M Greenwood. *J Rodriguez. D James
*O IGALHO
The following season we would sell D De Gea unless he Regains prime form and then move Smalling on looking to insert Dean as no 1 and buy another world class CB or the best emerging English CB, a world class CDM and probably an elite CFW to replace Igalho. The club are at least two seasons away and recruiting an elite coach like Max Allegri, Zidane , Naigelsman or Tuchal from competing for the Title, my hunch is we could do it in a year but not with Ole as coach Someone like Allegri or Ancelotti would be recruiting E Cavanni on a free rather than paying 15-20M for IGalho and that would be the difference however at least we are starting to resemble something like a United side so we should give Ole some credit for that at least !