Did you watch the pre-season match? Solomon and Perisic are what Ange wants from the LW position.
Is that really the best use of Son's talents?
Or do you think he's better to play off the shoulder and run behind a defense?
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Did you watch the pre-season match? Solomon and Perisic are what Ange wants from the LW position.
Is that really the best use of Son's talents?
Or do you think he's better to play off the shoulder and run behind a defense?
Perhaps. But needs might require it.
If you spunk 60 million on a striker, basic economics require that you try and get something back from the deal. Son can act as his back up. We have Solomon that can cover LW and, at long last,
a genuine AM in Maddison. We’re not looking so hot on the right, and my worry is that Kulu is going to struggle.
Needs be, we can go for someone in January.
Casting the new striker as "the man replacing Kane" is the problem - he's not. Richarlison and New Guy should rotate, compete, and share the role in a new balanced squad with attacking coming from elsewhere as well. We're not signing someone to score 30 goals, from any position. But if we can get 10+ from Richarlison, Sonny, New Guy, and 5-10 from Maddison, Kulu, Gil then we're getting there.
We have to have depth.
He doesn't have to play/start every match though. I'm not proposing we sign someone to nail Richarlison to the bench. Kane was playing more than he should have with us, we definitely dont want to be relying on the same minute-share from Richarlison. Even without Europe, we need a pair of strikers to cover the position.
Verts was the leader. He could make those around him look better. Romero is a great front foot defender, like Carvalho at Chelsea, good on the ball and aggressive but he doesn’t lead the backline and Dier, Tanganga, Rodon and Sanchez are just not of the level.
Ideally we bring in two, one to lead and another to provide backup to him and Romero. A good defence will hugely help us.
My fundamental problem is I just don’t trust us to get the recruitment right. I think I’d rather see us loan someone and get through this transition period and work out what our team needs to look like.
Someone like De Ketelaere, who Milan are trying to ship out on loan. Or give Atleti 15 million and take Felix for a season.
Like I said, he was cover before in Mourinho's day, if Levy would do that to Mourinho, why wouldn't he do that to Ange too?Of course you were.
Recruitment has been pretty good over the last few years to be fair.
One trophy in 23 years will do that tbf.You sound like Veruca Salt tbf......
So what striker is magically available this summer, who'd be a better fit than Son up front ?
Haha I know it’s not that easy but you could yield the 115M fairly easily
Charlie? Which charlie? 'Proper' Charlie or The Expensive?
Either way, it's to be sniffed at.
Spot on. I hate the blinkered, simple view of ‘not a striker’ too. He’s played 9 for us, wouldn’t work in a Conte system but if we have attackers around him it might.
That second half XI looked quite good to me and not scared at all.
People judging him like he's ever played as a number 9 for us in a system like the one we saw against West Ham.
If he's played as a striker it's been in systems that we've specifically designed for Harry Kane. Whether that be under Mourinho, Nuno or Conte.
Son and Richarlison is adequate striker depth whilst we scout the next big thing over the next 12 months. Get a top left winger in and two centre backs and a central midfielder if we sell Hojbjerg and we're in a great spot.
It's only a preseason match, win or lose can't get too carried away.
Excellent contribution to the transfer thread. Really good analysis of the players we are targeting and some left field options we never considered.We are indeed a massive football institution. Just a shame the owners play off that for all their non footballing enterprises.
If they showed the same determination in the transfer market as in the property market we'd certainly be going places, I feel.
'Lions led by Donkeys' is the phrase that immediately springs to mind
