We know that in the future we will be strong when you see the likes of Gray,Bergvall,Vuskovic and Odobert. Kinski and Yang are unknown to a certain extent. Mickey is a young man still and also Mikey Moore. What we need is to add better starters to our squad that make the transition easier for these young players. It’s the only way we move forward because planning for the future is great but the future will come quicker with better players just now.
We all know that costs money in big wages and we are not that club. If the club continue to go this way these young players won’t reach their peaks with us because they’ll move on because of the average players around them.
If the club does not change their ways we will always be a bit of a joke club because that’s what we are just now.
When we challenged for the league and got to a champions league final we were so close to turning into the big guns. We have regressed so much because of how are run.
We regressed because whilst we had given Poch a young and excellent squad, between 2016 and 2019 whilst we spent a lot of money Poch''s choices were poor with Sanchez (a record sim for a defender) and Moura being the best of a very bad bunch, and the less said abut the 2019 window with Ndombele, Lo Celso and Sessegnon the better....... and despite that squad's quality which took us to 2nd in PL in 2016-17 we won nothing.
Roll forward to 2020 and the squad was old with most players requiring replacement.
So since 2020 the club has been on an almost 100% rebuild (only Son and Davies remain from Poch or pre-Poch era), so OP which you popooed was right to highlight the incomings from 2023, building on earlier arrivals between 2020 and 2022 such as Romero, Sarr, Bentancur.
I should add that we hope to get a few academy products through to first team in the next couple of years, the youth set up having been made impotent by Poch's 'no loan' policy and failure to develop players internally (the best example being Poch buying £10m Foyth, failing to develop him, so he concedes 2 pens on his debut before being moved on, after which he became an 'ok' player) - players who might come through include Devine, Donley, Abbott, Phillips, to add to Moore/Lankshear et al. If some of those players come through they will be classed as List B and then CT players which will enlarge the uefa squads, helping managers rotate and avoid the injury levels we are currently experiencing
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