Marcelinho87
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If Maguire, Jones, Elanga, Greenwood, Butland etc are leaving then we need to replace the English leavers due to rules and regs and the 3 mentioned would be obvious upgrades on the outs.
why I am trying to stay away from British players. Kane is the only one I would take. Better value in the market elsewhere than Rice and MountI just hope they will be better value for money than the last Brexit transfers... Sancho, AWB and Maguire havent exactly been great value for money so far.
Costa is 2nd priority for me. Think the importance of having a sweeper keeper in modern football especially the way Ten Hag wants to play is crucial to pushing on.Add in Costa and Kim Min-Jae and we are cooking with gas
And we have bought how many unknown players who turned out to be good prospects and players?why would it be pointless? we go for top players and also scout unknown players as all big clubs do
So it would have been a yes otherwise?Not with your username, no thank you.
I agree on this.Don’t want any of these guys ideally. I have this fear that the Kane could turn out a bit like the Sanchez signing for us, and he’s going to cost quite a bit. Would much prefer a younger striker but nobody gets Kane’s numbers.
Rice I think is a solid player, but wildly overpriced by West Ham. Caicedo would be a better signing for us but we’ve not been linked with him at all.
I’ve always thought Mount was an ok player, surprised we’ve gone for him. If we can get him around £40mil I think it could be a clever bit of business
in the current first team squad we have Garnacho, Dalot and Malacia with Amad and Hannibal looking close to stepping upAnd we have bought how many unknown players who turned out to be good prospects and players?
So it would have been a yes otherwise?
How many players did other big clubs sign? Only club I can think of who did good job at this is Bayern, signing few players on cheap and unknowns.in the current first team squad we have Garnacho, Dalot and Malacia with Amad and Hannibal looking close to stepping up
I don’t think we are looking at signing a technical midfield playmaker this summer,however could still move for a Rabiot or a pure number 6 to cover Casa when we have sold a couple.I think people really undersell how good Kane is. It would be like the year we added Van Persie. If Kane was in our squad this season we would have finished 10-12 points higher than we did, which means we would have challenged for the title.
Mount is a brilliant squad option, allows us to play many different ways, British quota.
The one I wouldn’t want is weirdly Rice. I appreciate his qualities but he’d be the most expensive of the three and arguably would have the least impact. I’d much rather we looked around Europe for a more technical player in that position.
Most have started that already looking at threadIt "looks" underwhelming and yet it will still improve us greatly. Dont let the harry maguires to make you think english players = bad.
It's coming homeEngland FC
None of them are first choice players yet, altough Garnacho is good shout in general considering he wasn't well known, and didn't cost a lot. Amad cost us a lot for his years and lack of experience, so obviously he wasn't some scouting discovery, but rather already top young player who was chased by many clubs, but judging how much he cost he hasn't shown anything for us yet(I am not doubting him btw, just saying that so far he hasn't proved anything).in the current first team squad we have Garnacho, Dalot and Malacia with Amad and Hannibal looking close to stepping up
I don't see a meltdown here should this come to pass.Imagine the meltdown on here if we only signed English players...
Mount - Good player; great presser and will be much better than people think.
Kane - World class; best striker around outside of Haaland.
Rice - Very good midfielder
I like the way you think.Southgate will complete this.
I see Kane and Rice as world class players tbh and Mount as a really good squad option. It would be a solid window and consolidate top four at least. Given where we were last season I’d be willing to wait another summer transfer window after this one in order to add more to then challenge for the league.It would get us 2nd at best. The reality is to win the league you need 2 world/top class 11s and those three players won't do it.
this is besides the point thoughNone of them are first choice players yet, altough Garnacho is good shout in general considering he wasn't well known, and didn't cost a lot. Amad cost us a lot for his years and lack of experience, so obviously he wasn't some scouting discovery, but rather already top young player who was chased by many clubs, but judging how much he cost he hasn't shown anything for us yet(I am not doubting him btw, just saying that so far he hasn't proved anything).
Lisandro Martinez is the type of transfer I am talking about, and we had about 2 of those transfers in the last ten years despite spending enormous amount of money. But then I am quite sure Lisandro too was recommendation from Ten Hag more than from our scouts.