Which three players would you take from our PL rivals to improve our team?

Sparky Rhiwabon

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As the title says - when I say rivals I mean any Premier League team - and how would your first choice XI look then?
 

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DDG
Dalot - Varane - Martinez - Shaw
Casemiro - Bruno G
Saka
- Bruno F - Rashford
Haaland
 

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DDG
Dalot - Varane - Martinez - Shaw
Casemiro - Bruno G
Saka
- Bruno F - Rashford
Haaland
Yeah this. Though if we believe Sancho will come good, Allison for DDG is the other option
 

Chesterlestreet

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DDG
Dalot - Varane - Martinez - Shaw
Casemiro - Bruno G
Saka
- Bruno F - Rashford
Haaland
Yeah - I wouldn't be opposed to that.

(The obvious problem is that it would set us back...something like 350 mill at best in transfer money alone.)

Anyway, we can dream.
 

Trequarista10

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Haaland a cert, Bruno G or maybe Gundogan in CM.

Then RW or GK - a RW like Saka might make the most immediate impact, but given the fees and ages of Antony and Sancho I'd back one of them to come good long term and take Ederson or Alisson.
 

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Why the sudden obsession over Guimares? Mans behind Fred in the NT
 

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Haaland and Saka for sure. I'd love Odegaard to replace Eriksen but I'm not sure whether a midfield 3 of Casemiro, Bruno, Odegaard would be balanced enough. I'd probably bet on Casemiro being stable enough to make it work.
 

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Maybe not the flashiest name compared to the other players mentioned here, but perhaps an actual attainable player; Bentancur from Tottenham would be absolutely fantastic, especially next to Casemiro.
 

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I'll go realistic picks

-------------------Raya-------------------
Dalot---Varane--Martinez--Shaw
-------Casemiro----Caicedo-------
Antony------Fernandes-------Rashford
-------------------Kane-------------------

Struggled to come up with 3 realistic ones from the PL tbh as would prefer a different profile of CM to Caicedo
 

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Sat state of affairs seeing a winger included after we’ve spent a bomb the last two summers buying wingers

id go keeper, midfielder, forward (haaland)
 

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If it was purely just to win the PL next year with no long term plan at all:

-------------------De Gea-------------------
Dalot---Varane----Martinez----Shaw
-------Casemiro------Kovacic-------
Mahrez-------Bruno-------Rashford
--------------------Kane-------------------

Assuming Saka isn't already ahead of Mahrez. Maybe he is.
 

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Alisson, De Bruyne, Haaland. Don't think it's really even a debate, no idea how anyone looks at our team and things there are bigger issues than goalkeeper, centre forward and another midfielder.
 

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We need a bench. We don't need two GKs but two CDMs would do nicely.
I don’t really think that’s the idea of the thread. Of course we need a capable replacement but if you offered me this scenario the last thing I’m doing is thinking of squad options.