Worth a quick recap on our squad at this point (after buying Van de Ven) - we have 20 'overseas trained players' currently (including an injured Gil who isn't going to go anywhere this window), so we need to move on Lloris, Ndombele and Reguilon just to get back to the maximum 17 we are allowed in a squad
Then assuming that we need 2 incomings who will be overseas trained, we need to see Sanchez or Dier and Hojbjerg moving on (to get to 15 overseas trained players - see list at bottom of post - the next most likely would be Perisic or Lo Celso, pretty much everyone else we want to stay.
I can't see us buying 2 more CB's after Van de Ven, hence I think its either/or Dier/Sanchez, not both going..
On the HG front, we are short of quality, and dividing it into UEFA types (as we want to be back in europe next season, so lets build the squad that way :
Club trained - Skipp, Austin ..... Tanganga and White
Other Association trained - Maddison, Forster, Davies ..... and Spence, Sessegnon (inj)
But what this shows is that to get 3 players in we really need (both next season and long term) one incoming to be HG, with possibly Spence moving on if he is not going to be used by Ange .
These are the 15 'Overseas players I think we want to keep and add to in this window :
Vicario, Romero , Dier or Sanchez , Ven de Ven, Royal, Persic , Porro Bissouma , Bentancur , Lo Celso, Son, Kulusevski , Richarlison, Solomon Gil - although we also have Sarr and Udogie who will count as u21's this season but 'overseas trained players' when over 21.
Then assuming that we need 2 incomings who will be overseas trained, we need to see Sanchez or Dier and Hojbjerg moving on (to get to 15 overseas trained players - see list at bottom of post - the next most likely would be Perisic or Lo Celso, pretty much everyone else we want to stay.
I can't see us buying 2 more CB's after Van de Ven, hence I think its either/or Dier/Sanchez, not both going..
On the HG front, we are short of quality, and dividing it into UEFA types (as we want to be back in europe next season, so lets build the squad that way :
Club trained - Skipp, Austin ..... Tanganga and White
Other Association trained - Maddison, Forster, Davies ..... and Spence, Sessegnon (inj)
But what this shows is that to get 3 players in we really need (both next season and long term) one incoming to be HG, with possibly Spence moving on if he is not going to be used by Ange .
These are the 15 'Overseas players I think we want to keep and add to in this window :
Vicario, Romero , Dier or Sanchez , Ven de Ven, Royal, Persic , Porro Bissouma , Bentancur , Lo Celso, Son, Kulusevski , Richarlison, Solomon Gil - although we also have Sarr and Udogie who will count as u21's this season but 'overseas trained players' when over 21.
