Dropping a combined 80m on both of them would make us so much more balanced.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Dropping a combined 80m on both of them would make us so much more balanced.
Not buying too much into that. Pool are usually stealthy with transfers.
mouthwatering cb's again, van de ven with his pace and interceptions, romero getting in on the tackles and tapsoba to balance it out, its perfect which is is why we will proably get 1 and tosin or something
Would almost certainly mean Kane is off if we're making that big of CB investment in addition to Maddison.
its not that big, gvardiol on his own went for 100 mill, getting 2 young cb's for 20 mill less and potential to be as good is sound buisness
get it done
Kulusevski
Romero
Porro
Andy Reid
Ronny Rosenthal
Stuart Nethercott
Like many on here I’d prefer we forgo Maddison in favour of getting CBs sorted
Nothing about Kulusevski's game would indicate that he's more natural on the left wing.
That’s assuming they’d both be willing to come, with one of them knowing they are primarily a backup.
Would be ideal really. Tapsoba starting LCB, rcb if Romero is out. Vdv second choice lcb, and defensive option at lb. Udogie isn't at all ready to start every game. That said, doubt we're considering both.
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Levy has some sort of pathological need to leave us light in at least one position. For years we've been crying out for a proper CB.
The fact that Sanchez wasn't fit to succeed Toby and Jan was obvious from his second season here, but Levy did nothing to move him on. Then we got Rodon instead of Skiriniar, god know how much that cost us.
He finally got Romero, but then had us playing with Davies and Dier as his partners, what a joke. We then failed to get Bastoni and chose fucking Lenglet on loan.
If we end up playing what's essentially a 4231 with fairly passive FBs I will be extremely dissapointed.
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That Ange interview about... well, reliving his trauma of feeling helpless as a FB having to both attack and defend across the full length of the pitch, really annoyed me.If we end up playing what's essentially a 4231 with fairly passive FBs I will be extremely dissapointed.
Football is perhaps the most dynamic sport in the world, if your FBs just hang back, you lose so much of that dynamism needed to overcome the opposition defence.
I hope I'm wrong about him.
I suspected it was the wrong move at the time as he was never gonna "totally transform" the way we played (as commonly insisted at the time) and the frequent "he's not that great defensively though" chatter was a further red flag.
CB was a way more practical (and point preserving) purchase at the time.
........I fear we're creating a square peg/round hole scenario for Udogie too.
.......I don't think Maddison is a great fit either.
I'm quietly hoping Ange surprises us here and does something few are expecting.
(People get so hung up about 3at the back... I think we should be sticking with it personally.)
Teams across all leagues will be tinkering with what Guardiola did this past season with his full backs, and Stones moving into midfield. Woolwich were at it most of the year with Ben White and Zinchenko. Postecoglou (going on small sample size of probably 10-12 games watched since we appointed him) doesn't have just the one way of utilizing full backs. Sometimes both bomb forward high and wide, sometimes one will sit beside cb's for most of the game, sometimes one will repeatedly make underlapping runs (inside winger into box), often the left back will come insde and spend the whole game rotating possession from a defensive midfield position. We have a wide variety of skillsets at full back, with our right backs in particular its a shame we don't have European games to give them all a fair go of it. Emerson, Porro, Spence all good at different things. Left back I'm a bit worried about, I thought Davies was a decent lcb in a three, don't really think he's much good in a back four.. Udogie is a developing, unrefined player and Reguilon/Sessegnon can't be counted on, but wouldnt be totally surprised if Ange decided he liked one or the other.If we end up playing what's essentially a 4231 with fairly passive FBs I will be extremely dissapointed.