Summer rebuild 2023
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Depends entirely on whether those others are good enough to help us start winning the big prizes again. If they aren't and are just making up the numbers, it will have been false economy.
Melo and Rabiot sounds like a incredible midfield though.
“Melo and Rabiot” sounds more like a 70’s prog-rock concept album or a Wes Anderson film…
You'd have to be doing a lot (everything) wrong if you can't find 2 midfielders and a CB for 120-130m that can help you at least get near to winning things again.
Or a really shit detective pairing
Everton say… hold my beer!!!
That club lost all sense of bearing after Moyes left, not a clue on anything football between the board.
The Everton model is why you tend to stay away from the "prem proven/homegrown" bollocks.
Bolasie
Walcott
Alli
Sigurdsson
Iwobi
Godfrey
Keane
Pickford
Kin hell.
The overseas player they bought have been equally as bad.
Their model basically suggests - don’t buy shit players.
Digne/Mykolenko were solid buys.
Gueye's been ok, Onana's been ok (a fair few here keen on him).
Tosun was terrible. Mina I guess you could say has been terrible, but that's more down to injuries.
Davy Klasson, Moises Kean, Allan, James Rodriguez, Gbamin…
Thought Allan was very good. Rodriguez was arguably their best player that season but because Everton were a laughing stock as a whole I suppose we can include him in that. Gbamin injuries but concur he probably would've been shit regardless.
Klaasen terrible. Completely forgot this guy existed, had to google him to remember what he looked like....(I wish I hadn't now - thanks for that)
Kean poorly mismanaged.
Our definitions of “very good” would differ -,Allan - was, what, £20m for a 29 on a 3.5 year contract that was released on a free after 2 years.
They generally just signed shit or anyone half decent fucked off at the first opportunity.
Morgan Schneiderlin… hahahaha
Very much falls into the "prem proven" category.
Think every 1 of their prem proven has flopped. Gray for the price has done ok in spells.
Isn't that the baddie from Ghostbusters?
"At least near" isn't good enough. That's the kind of approach which kept us consistently below top level before Klopp arrived and put an end to it.
Not particularly. If we lost to Chelsea twice on pens last season, we still came near to winning something(s). You're back on the right path.
The position we're in now, it would take a whole lot more than trading a Jude for 2 CM's and a CB to be able to go back to where we were in the space of a season....surely nobody in their right mind thinks that.
We didn't lose to them though, did we, and that (plus the League title and CL win which preceded them) happened because under Klopp we got away from the "near enough is good enough" approach to signings which had kept us down for far too long beforehand, and insisted on Virgil and Alisson when in his view no-one else would do. If we want to scale those heights again, that kind of quality is going to have to figure among our signings again.
You cant poke fun at Everton for Schneiderlin. They are legally required every other year to help out Man United by overpaying for the shite United overpaid for.
That’s the exact reason I can poke fun at him.
I am not in love with him, anything I say about him is serious, even if all our other players play at their best, he is still worthy of being a first teamer, and I don't think he would be out of place in any top European team.
I don't mind how we set the midfield next season but just don't leave out Tyler Adams. I won't say he is industrious as perhaps Mac A, Thulam or Kone are but he would add some versatility to the team that's not easy to handle by the opposition. His expertise in pinging the ball to strikers is great and that can be ideal for our forwards in those difficult games. It could easily be our ace in breaking up stubborn defenses. I see Salah, Nunez and Jota, even Diaz pouncing on those balls and giving some tough times to the other guys. Sure, for next season the team needs, the three - Allister, Thulam and Kone to bring in the energy, resilience, grit and attacking flair in the center but in addition I feel Tyler Adams should be a red and truly that will fix our mid for the next five years. So it will be 2CM +Tyler Adams plus CB or 3CM+Tyler Adams plus CB. Lets get in on.
That’s the sort of true love that gets re-made into Sandra Bullock film!!!
He is definitely an option from what many are saying if we can get him on the cheap, but how much would make him worth a buy over our current two interests ?
Tyler Adams is a great shout, mentioned him on another forums back in Jan…seems to be the forgotten man as he’s been out for so long. Leeds really have missed him these past few months, impressive during the world cup too, wonder what sort of price he’d go for now. 20-30m we should be all over it.
Absolutely, he’s a steal at the price.
Don't think we're interested in him though we should be - it allows us to see if we can get rid of Fabinho (sorry - love him but gotta move on from him as a starter and wages high) and have no drop off.
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