How is that a fact? It's just an opinion some fans agree with, and some don't.
Yes, I do think they're absolutely good enough to be mainstays in our team even if we become PL and CL contenders within the next 2/3 years.
Well, you are simply way too optimistic. Onana is a good goalkeeper with silly mistakes. Martinez is very injury prone, you simply cannot rely on him , apparently he won't be able to play a whole season, never. Ugarte... Who knows? You talk about someone who played only minutes for the club but completely failed to get decent amount of playtime in Paris, not a good sign. Zirkzee is good in passing but we needed a scorer, and he isn't one of them. Mazraoui, well for 15 million he seems to be a good signing but defensively he is pretty limited. And anyway, talking about De Ligt, Mazraoui, Zirkzee and Ugarte after only a few (mostly poor) matches or few minutes as a "new foundation" is simply recklessness nothing else, sorry.From De gea , Maguire, Lindelof, AWB, Mctom and Wout to
Onana, De Light, Martinez, Mazraoui, Ugarte and Zirkzee.
On a technical and footballing level we have improved. Let's not get into bashing the former players (and some still here) but I think when you look at things like passing, close control, football IQ, the second group is clearly better.
Even if ETH gets sacked at the end of the year, we have a decent young team that is headed in the right direction.
This is without mentioning the likes of Amad,Mainoo, Yoro, Rasmus and Garnacho.
A foundation has been built.
both players do not take care of possession enough.
for the bolded part
with our current XI:
Rashford - Hojlund/Zirkzee - Garnacho/Amad
Mainoo - Ugarte - Bruno
Dalot - Martinez Deligt - mazouri
Onana
for which possession do you think we should buy and replace to make us a title challenger in 2 years?
It's impossible to answer this, because so much depends on how our players perform this season, how effective ETH's tactics will be, and will he even be manager at the start of next season.
come on, we are on football forum and we need to make judgments based on limited information available (you made a judgment that Bruno and Rashford fit our possession based tactics and Wirtz isn't an upgrade on Bruno anyway). How can you not have an opinion on whether our squad is good enough for a title challenger? Is it because the answer "bruno and rashford are our weak spots under the possession based tactics that need to be upgraded upon") is too obvious you wanna dodge that question?
a game is not won until the final whistle, so we can never predict scorelines?
we never know if a player until the player has finished his career here, so we can never suggest football transfers for the club as fans?
It’s what this fanbase does the best. Half of them wanted to give a proven failure of a manager a 3rd season at this club. When the new season inevitably is a write off after 5 games they have nowhere to hide so instead start writing fictional lore on how he has laid the foundations for future generations.We really cling on to positivity. Yeah the ages look great, but really.... Klopp was playing attractive football with Liverpool in half the time and I'm sure less money spent ffs.
