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If you had replied with a photo of you standing by your fireplace, it would probably have made less sense to me.
If we earn Champion League football again, we'll have the ability to go out and sign quality to improve the squad. Poch has learned his lesson from last summer and knows low hanging fruit signings aren't going to allow him the luxury to rotate as he'd like between Europe and domestic games.
For me, I'd go all out and try to sign Lacazette. No other signings needed. He can play with Kane in a 2 striker set-up or as a wing forward. His goal scoring record the last 3 seasons has been unbelievable. 18 in 18 this season on the back of two 20+ goal seasons, while missing a chunk of the season with injury. He is in our wage bracket, Lyon will sell for the right fee (probably for what we paid for Janssen+Sissoko), and with CL and television funds plus 3-4 outgoing sales, we can easily finance the deal.
A diverse dynamic striker is the only hole in our squad at the moment. We could use another attacking midfielder, but we have enough there when all our fit to compete at a high level. An injury to Kane is hugely damaging to us, as was exhibited in his time out of the squad.
If we earn Champion League football again, we'll have the ability to go out and sign quality to improve the squad. Poch has learned his lesson from last summer and knows low hanging fruit signings aren't going to allow him the luxury to rotate as he'd like between Europe and domestic games.
For me, I'd go all out and try to sign Lacazette. No other signings needed. He can play with Kane in a 2 striker set-up or as a wing forward. His goal scoring record the last 3 seasons has been unbelievable. 18 in 18 this season on the back of two 20+ goal seasons, while missing a chunk of the season with injury. He is in our wage bracket, Lyon will sell for the right fee (probably for what we paid for Janssen+Sissoko), and with CL and television funds plus 3-4 outgoing sales, we can easily finance the deal.
A diverse dynamic striker is the only hole in our squad at the moment. We could use another attacking midfielder, but we have enough there when all our fit to compete at a high level. An injury to Kane is hugely damaging to us, as was exhibited in his time out of the squad.
If we are now set on 3 at the back, there is no place for Lacazette.
If we continue with a three at the back system, I think we need to bring in another CM, as Dier will be part of the backline.
Lacazette is out of our price range.
We're not talking 30-40m here lad. Lacazette would be 70m+. Naive to think we'd go there.Then we should increase that range. The players we need to improve us as a team will not fall in to the 10-20m range but cost a fair bit more...
We should not waste 30m on duds like Sissoko but fork out that extra 15-20m to get the real deal, like Mane or Sane or...
Then we should increase that range. The players we need to improve us as a team will not fall in to the 10-20m range but cost a fair bit more...
We should not waste 30m on duds like Sissoko but fork out that extra 15-20m to get the real deal, like Mane or Sane or...
I agree with you there. Good spot.Leander dendoncker from anderlecht is the defender I want. He's basically the belgian Eric dier, versatile young technically strong good athleticism. Probably not our biggest priority but he just such a proper footballer, be shame to see him go to a Liverpool or arsenal who really need him.
Looks like Robertson is going to Burnley.Firstly - LWB. I like Davies. He's probably as good a back-up LB that we could get. Unfortunately, I'm not sure he's quick enough to be a successful LWB - a position we have been using more often. Therefore, we should look to sign someone who can play as a LB and a LWB. We could go for Sessegnon, who would be a really young option but with very-high potential (could be a risk to play in PL games though). Or we could go for someone like Robertson at Hull, who's young, fairly quick and has played at both LB and LWB for Hull. He will also only have 1 year left on his contract in the summer I believe.
Not the value of the player, the wages. Lacazette can realistically move to a lot of top teams who will be able to offer 2/3x much as we offer and then you have China as well.
We're always going to struggle with players who are sought after especially with attacking ones, same happened with Mane, we just cannot afford them.
Left back - Chilwell