What are you going on about Mkhitaryan and Mata being made to rot in the reserves. You do realise it's a squad game now. Did Fabregas start every game last season or William? City have a lot of options in attack and want to sign Sanchez to top it off. People need to worry about improving the team and not worry about players who have been hit and miss for us. Or worry about one of their favourites being on the bench.
Improve set pieces? You do that by signing players who can actually take set pieces. We let nearly every player in our squad take set pieces and nobody consistently delivered.
Martial and Rashford haven't yet proven they can consistently lead the line for a team that wants to win the league. That's what the aim should be next season. A title challenge should be expected. Jose knows that. Not another season of challenging for fourth.
You do realise that Young and our best player of last season Valencia were not fullbacks originally? Perisic has the same traits as them as in he is a hard working winger but is better going forward.
Yes all our centre backs are awful. That's why we had the second best defence. Probably would have been first two years running if we actually cared about the last few games of the season.
Mkhitaryan and Mata doesn't fit into your formation so how do you plan on using them? They won't play CM so therefore they won't be getting games
Yes we need to bring in someone who can take set-pieces. Or play Jones
We can't disregard Martial/Rashford. We need to develop them. We also need to buy maybe two goalscorers, one #9 and one wide player. In that way we can mount a title challenge and build long term as well.
I don't see Perisic as a wing back. I don't think he is as hard working and good defensively as you seem to think.
We had the 2nd best defence last season because we played with a defensive sideback, a defensive midfielder and a hard working box-to-box midfielder. Obviously also because Bailly and Rojo performed but those two are in my opinion the only centre backs good enough. Maybe we can keep Blind, Smalling and Jones as backups but we need a 3rd starting CB and at least one more who can rotate with the three and is on close to the same level as them.
