lukespurs7
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- Feb 21, 2006
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So Kane breaks the record and all they can talk about is that a player scoring that many goals should be winning titles. Well the last one who did so in the PL, Alan Shearer won 1 PL and he said he never regretted for a minute not transferring to Man.U etc.
But it has to be said it is a reasonable assumption to be made that a player who has scored more goals than any other in a calendar year in Europe should be in the mix for titles and trophies.
We were reasonably competitive when Leicester and chelsea won the league the last 2 seasons but I wouldn’t actually say we were ‘close’, last year we got to the semi final of the FA cup but hazard and Costa off the bench killed us at 2-2 so mabye that was a squad depth issue.
So if we assume that Harry is willing to give it at least a few more years in the new stadium mabye until he’s 27/28, what do we need to do and improve to win ‘titles’ as Henry calls them(Trophies)?
Is it a specific player or players and if so in which positions, or is it our mentality, is it winning away against our direct rivals, is it just time and experience or a mix of all of those.
Assuming being positive we will keep all our players next year but with doubts around Toby and Rose then we will need to obviously replace them with real quality. I think to take us to the next level we actually need 4 players:
1. A top class back-up to Kane who can also play alongside him. All top teams have 2-4 top strikers and Llorente just isn’t good enough.
2. A world class CM to replace Dembele who is unfortunately too injury prone. Someone like Gomez from Barca etc who can dictate play and take control of the game
3. A pacey direct option who has quality, so an upgrade on GKN , Zaha would be my choice.
4. Another versatile squad player option who is an upgrade on Sissoko, possibly a Barkley, but I see him going to Chelsea.
I then think the new stadium will
Help as playing at Wembley probably knocks off a good 10pts from home games across a season purely because it’s not a home ground. I think we need to improve further our tactics and results in big games especially away to the top6.
If we do all of that and Man.City come back to a normal level I think we will have a really good chance of winning something in the next few years
But it will be tough and I’m worried if we don’t keep the players we need to or replace them adequately and start to add some top top players to th squad that we will be competitive but will keep falling just short.
We also need to pay slightly higher wages once the revenue from the new stadium kicks in.
Squad would look something like:
Lloris (Vorm,Gazzaniga)
Aurier (Trippier*upgrade if poss)
Toby (Sanchez)
Jan (Dier)
Rose (Davies)
Wanyama (Dier)
New CM e.g. Gomez (Winks,Dembele) + Barkley/Alli when needed
Son (Zaha)
Alli (Barkley)
Eriksen (Lamela)
Kane (New top class back-up ST * i would go for celtics dembele+ Llorente)
Thoughts?
But it has to be said it is a reasonable assumption to be made that a player who has scored more goals than any other in a calendar year in Europe should be in the mix for titles and trophies.
We were reasonably competitive when Leicester and chelsea won the league the last 2 seasons but I wouldn’t actually say we were ‘close’, last year we got to the semi final of the FA cup but hazard and Costa off the bench killed us at 2-2 so mabye that was a squad depth issue.
So if we assume that Harry is willing to give it at least a few more years in the new stadium mabye until he’s 27/28, what do we need to do and improve to win ‘titles’ as Henry calls them(Trophies)?
Is it a specific player or players and if so in which positions, or is it our mentality, is it winning away against our direct rivals, is it just time and experience or a mix of all of those.
Assuming being positive we will keep all our players next year but with doubts around Toby and Rose then we will need to obviously replace them with real quality. I think to take us to the next level we actually need 4 players:
1. A top class back-up to Kane who can also play alongside him. All top teams have 2-4 top strikers and Llorente just isn’t good enough.
2. A world class CM to replace Dembele who is unfortunately too injury prone. Someone like Gomez from Barca etc who can dictate play and take control of the game
3. A pacey direct option who has quality, so an upgrade on GKN , Zaha would be my choice.
4. Another versatile squad player option who is an upgrade on Sissoko, possibly a Barkley, but I see him going to Chelsea.
I then think the new stadium will
Help as playing at Wembley probably knocks off a good 10pts from home games across a season purely because it’s not a home ground. I think we need to improve further our tactics and results in big games especially away to the top6.
If we do all of that and Man.City come back to a normal level I think we will have a really good chance of winning something in the next few years
But it will be tough and I’m worried if we don’t keep the players we need to or replace them adequately and start to add some top top players to th squad that we will be competitive but will keep falling just short.
We also need to pay slightly higher wages once the revenue from the new stadium kicks in.
Squad would look something like:
Lloris (Vorm,Gazzaniga)
Aurier (Trippier*upgrade if poss)
Toby (Sanchez)
Jan (Dier)
Rose (Davies)
Wanyama (Dier)
New CM e.g. Gomez (Winks,Dembele) + Barkley/Alli when needed
Son (Zaha)
Alli (Barkley)
Eriksen (Lamela)
Kane (New top class back-up ST * i would go for celtics dembele+ Llorente)
Thoughts?
- thanks to Man Sh*tty
