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Nope. If you stop shoehorning Dele in then perhaps. But Ndombele and Winks (in particular) are not gonna be a great CM2...that is what will result to your CM3 with Dele chasing shiny objects instead of handling his MF responsibilities. He has shown not one bit of discipline (other than a man-mark which doesn't take a brain) or positional awareness to be the tip of the MF spear. Kane would end up dropping in to help move the ball.
If we are putting this team out next year after a supposed new chapter/rebuild then we have failed somewhere in the process.
Kovacic didn’t suit Chelsea at all. I think he’d do well in our midfield, but that boat has sailed now.
Cellabos has a lot of talent, just needs to be given the chance to play regularly. If we don’t pull Lo Celso off then he could be a good fall back option.
It's not offensively where Trippier lacks though is it? It's defensively he was a shambles last season.
We will see if he ever comes to England I guess.
Agreed. Any time I saw Kovacic play for the Chavs I thought he looked alright, definitely has something about him (Although he also appears to have serious stamina issues)
In any case though, he undoubtedly would have been a major asset to our midfield last season.
I hear the Fascists are looking for a new manager.
Please list all the signings by PL clubs who are aged over 19 and not free transfers this TW - and how many clubs have not signed a player so far ?
Might give you something to do, and might give you a little bit of balance before you post again.
Robertson had played in PL with Hull before being signed.
So pretty obvious that he had a lot going for him - in SPL its not comparable as the level of opposition is so much poorer.
But we have to get the players we want early , because if someone else buys them then we are stuck with the "there is money but the players we'd want do not exist" nonsense.
I saw your f/u post but that just takes you deeper down the Dele rabbit hole and would worsen the points I made. If you actually consider the points I made, which have ample supportive evidence from his playing history, then perhaps you will see the problems that Dele brings tactically and stop pushing for his inclusion (specifically in the MF) instead of his improvement.
My post preemptively refuted your f/u rationale even before seeing it for myself which leaves me wondering why you would point that out. And even more you are suggesting that he get up with Harry (and heat maps would show he was quite often beyond Harry in previous years). This would exacerbate the situation of spacing our lines. It would be the CL all over again but teams wouldn't even need to try to create the space. And beyond that you wouldn't have the steel of Wanyama/Dembele you would have Ndombele and Winks.
You can say #noexperts but that doesn't mean you can't learn something from others. And this is an easy one to see. As easy to see as Dele and Eriksen's performance this season in the MF. The only way Dele gets where you would like to see him is if you sacrifice Sonny for him in that formation or play with 2 slow coaches up top with Dele and Harry. Neither are very appealing options.