We have scored 8 goals in 9 PL matches this season, 3 Cb’s all over 30, 3 Midfielder over 30 and the team has not scored over 60PL goals in 4 seasons, but our players are underrated!
Lindelof(30), H Maguire (31), J Evan’s(37), Casemiro(32), C Eriksen(32), Bruno(30),
Always Injured ; M Mount, L Shaw, T Malacia,
Frequently injured; N Mazraoui, R Hojlund, Amad Diallo, K Mainoo, H Maguire, L Yoro, L Martinez
Players who look like they are not fit for purpose ; Antony, Zirkzee
I would say with players aging within the squad and huge injuries issues with the rest of the squad that anyone who believes that this squad is a nailed on top 4 squad is deluded?
Fitness, Football IQ, Clinical finishing, taking care of the ball, Game Management, Working collectively as a unit, playing swashbuckling football, we have a huge way to go?
Ruben Amorin will evaluate the squad and look to the youth set up for 3 or 4 players that he needs for his system and also look to bring 4 or 5 of his own players in over the next two windows.
As soon as he sees our misfiring forwards costing him points, he’ll demand Victor Gyrokeres in Winter transfer window, as soon as he sees the club has injury prone full backs as wing backs, he’ll demand at least two of them as well. And when he sees that Martinez, Maguire, De Ligt and Evan’s have very little pace in the back line he’ll demand inacio or Diomende from sporting?
And it’s obvious he’ll want a CM that’s in the 22-25 year old range as well.
Can't say I agree with most of this. If Amorim is a good manager, he will massively elevate the base level of this squad, much like how Emery did at Villa after replacing Gerrard.
All the players you listed and then mentioned their age are basically fringe players and they're almost certainly leaving next summer, except for Bruno (and Casemiro, because we might not be able to sell him, but we want him gone). Lindelöf, Maguire, Eriksen, and probably Evans are 99% leaving/retiring in the latter's case. I'd also like to add that the likes of Bruno or Maguire haven't shown any signs of physical decline, at all, and will probably stay elite level players for a few more years.
Your "frequently injured" list includes a player who hasn't missed a single game due to injury at United in Mazraoui, a player who's always been famous for his excellent availability record in Maguire, a player who has suffered one injury in his whole senior career so far in Yoro, and I'm not sure you have a case for classifying the likes of Amad, Martínez and Mainoo injury prone, either. Martínez suffered several injuries due to nasty tackles and challenges that would've sidelined most other players as well. There's no evidence he has an injury prone body, like Shaw.
We'll see if Zirkzee is fit for purpose, but Antony clearly isn't, but it's not like he has a future at the club anyways.
Maybe we are not a "nailed on" top 4 squad, but I think the deluded ones are who think we shouldn't be making it or coming very close to top 4 under a good manager and no injury crisis. Why did so many people want ETH out so vehemently if they, at the same time, believe that this squad isn't even as good as the Chelsea, Spurs and Villa squads? It's just totally contradicting yourselves.
Regarding your last two paragraphs, the only part I agree with is that we will get a young CM for the new manager, in one of the next transfer windows.
You don't know what Amorim will "demand" and whether he will have the right to demand anything or not. I really doubt we'll be signing several Sporting players for him. In fact, I'd be surprised if we signed anyone from there, as looking at their squad, we don't really need any of their players.
He won't demand Gyökeres, because we have Hojlund who can be turned into a scoring machine, much like the Swede. For free. He won't demand Diomande, because we've just signed Leny Yoro, who was the much more coveted CB prospect of the two, and Diomande wouldn't be the only option if we wanted to add another wide defender to the squad (which will happen IMO, but it will be Branthwaite). He also won't demand Inácio when he will already have Martínez for the same role within his system.