glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Aye, Alderwiereld played at Soton under Koeman in the year after Poch had left them for us.
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Transfer rumours - summer 2021 edition
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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
But any manager, other than a Mourinho/Allardyce/Benitez will need a CB with a bit of pace and who can play the ball. It's a massive Vertonghen shaped hole we have in our defence.
Skriniar and Boateng are so criminally short of pace/mobility, it would be an absolute car crash in anything other than a low-block.
yeah Alderwierled was at Saints the year after Poch left
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
That's not actually really true about either of them. You might not pair the two together in an ideal world but calling them criminally short of pace/mobility is just an (inaccurate) guess.
Both Milan and Bayern play front foot football, not low block counter attack.
AjaxDeSuperYids
Drama queen
Lloris, Lo-Tutala
Foyth, Aarons
Sessegnon, Reguilon
Rodon, Tanganga, Alderweireld
Hojbjerg, Skipp
Ndombele, Winks
Lo Celso, Dele
Bale, Lucas, Bergwijn, Son, Kane
Sell everyone else and then get another Vini loan type to back up Kane and then spend every penny we’ve got on the best centre half possible.
Foyth, Aarons
Sessegnon, Reguilon
Rodon, Tanganga, Alderweireld
Hojbjerg, Skipp
Ndombele, Winks
Lo Celso, Dele
Bale, Lucas, Bergwijn, Son, Kane
Sell everyone else and then get another Vini loan type to back up Kane and then spend every penny we’ve got on the best centre half possible.
That's some CB you're buying given you're selling Dier, Sanchez, Lamela, Davies, gazzaniga, Aurier, Doherty, Ndombele and spending all that on one player!!!
Come on we scraped into the top 4 with some ridicilous fortune like Arsenal losing 3 out of their last 4 games and dropping a 2 or 3 goal lead I believe. If you look at the form guide over his last 25-30 league games it was relegation form.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
Oh to be able to scrape into the CL....
Now we’re instead scraping into the UEFA (or perhaps even worse this season!)
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
I’ve always thought he would suit
But then the question is why hasn’t he started as much this season
True but I don't think we would have got in the season after, whether we were right to sack him is a different question.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
If 4 seasons out of 5 in the CL is not an acceptable level of performance for the board for their level of investment then I think they need a serious rethink.
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
An insignificant player. I've seen many on here want him, but he's an occasional highlight reel player. In most games he's not doing much. The reason people notice him, is because of the stupid hair, not that he's incredibly good. Same as with Gwendozi and Luiz.
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Oh yeah. Boateng CAN run quite fast. The problem is that every time he sprints more than 15 meters, he does his hamstring and is out for 8 weeks. He's been like that for 3-4 years now.
AjaxDeSuperYids
Drama queen
Sissoko not ndombele but about 25m would have to go on aarons.
We should though be able to raise 50m-60m selling hart, gazzaniga, dier, sanchez, doherty, aurier, davies, sissoko and lamela.
Hopefully we have some other funds that can be made available to then give a decent budget for a very good centre half.
Give that revised squad to rodgers and we are ending 4th next season and might even do something in one of the cups.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
I do wish that people wouldn't make stuff up and post it as fact....
Boateng, played 37 games in total for Bayern this season and 38 last season. If we compare to our current crop of centre halves then we have:
Dier - 37 and 30
Sanchez - 31 and 39
Alderweireld - 22 and 33
Rodon - 13 and 21
So Boateng has played more games for Bayern Munich than any of our centre backs have played over the most recent two seasons
Now onto his injuries.... Boateng's last hamstring injury was 4 seasons back (he missed 42 days and 5 games with that injury).
If we look at the last 3 seasons then Boateng was out for a total of only 48 days in those 3 seasons. Those 48 days out injured resulted in him missing a grand total of only 7 games. This season he missed just 1 game, last season only 2 games (and one of those was ill instead of with an injury).
Let's again compare that to our centre backs, their last 3 season injury record is as follows:
Dier - 138 days (28 games missed)
Sanchez - 81 days (15 games missed)
Toby - 143 days (33 games missed)
Rodon - 164 days (31 games missed)
So the facts are that Jerome Boateng has actually been far less injury prone than any of our centre backs over the past 3 years.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
I look at that list and can only see one single improvement on this year's first team (an unnamed new centre back).
I don't expect any of this seasons top 10 to stand still this summer. I think doing the sort of business you advocate in that post would have us finishing somewhere between 1 and 3 places lower than where we finish this season.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
That midfield is awful, Ndombele and Lo Celso are no where near good enough. Winks is awful.
The 3 central defenders are unproven at the top level.
AjaxDeSuperYids
Drama queen
We have to work within our means, this isnt Football Manager with the sugar daddy cheat on unfortunately.
What is your alternative suggestion in full? Post your full squad, who comes in, who goes but remember the context.
too many of the old guard still there
Out -> Sissoko, Winks, Dier, Dele, Sanchez, Foyth, Rose, CCV, Doherty, Davies
Incoming Manager discretion -> Bale, Aurier, Lamela, Lucas
New Team
-------------- Lloris -------------
Aurier/New RB/Tanganga ---- Toby ---- New CB/Rodon ---- Reguilon/Sess
------------- PEH ----- Skipp ------
Lo Celso/Ndombele --- New CM ------ Son
----------- Kane -----------
Spend 70% of the money on new CB, split the rest on new CM & new RB if we ca get one (not Aarons), should be doable in our budget range (10+ out)
Most important is to get the refresh by the squad change and the non improving players (Winks, Dier, Sanchez, Dele, Sissoko, Davies are all players whose best seasons are almost 3+ years ago now)