What do we still need? Aka The never ending story

MCDC said:
We need 5 players this summer.

RWB - Looks like Quenda will be sorted at some point in the future.

CM - Dynamic, ball playing box to box midfielder.

ST - Someone who knows how to score goals and can actually control the ball and create chances for themselves.

CAM - Dynamic dribbler who can score and create for others.

Tyler Dibbling - I know he would play a CAM I just seen him as a generational talent, who would be around for 10+ years.
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Where's the GK? I can't handle another year with Onana, I'll be bald if I have to tolerate another year with him
 
MCDC said:
We need 5 players this summer.

RWB - Looks like Quenda will be sorted at some point in the future.

CM - Dynamic, ball playing box to box midfielder.

ST - Someone who knows how to score goals and can actually control the ball and create chances for themselves.

CAM - Dynamic dribbler who can score and create for others.

Tyler Dibbling - I know he would play a CAM I just seen him as a generational talent, who would be around for 10+ years.
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RWB - Quenda
CM - Baleba/Ederson
ST - Gyokeres
CAM/L10 Cunha/Dibbling
 
If the best we can do is leon friggin bailey then our transfer policy is even more shite than I thought.

Wow nearly rock bottom
 
Fooza said:
Where's the GK? I can't handle another year with Onana, I'll be bald if I have to tolerate another year with him
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Yeah your right, just don’t know how far we can stretch it.

Onana is shocking, I am pretty confident that they will look to replace him, problem is goal scoring is our major issue, so guessing that’s where the majority of the budget will go.
 
Kinsella said:
To anyone who watches the Portuguese league - just how good is Gyokeres? I fear people are looking at stats and coming to conclusions without using their eyes much.
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Yeah, I'm very nervous about us getting rinsed for Gyokeres and then him being not up to the standard for the Premier League. There's such a pitiful dearth of quality strikers at the moment that there isn't one dead cert you could bank on buying and knowing they would be class for us.
 
I have no idea what we need at this point. Quicker to tell you what we don't need to fix.

What is almost certainly a step backwards is replacing Rashford and Antony with Lecce's LB. I'm all for hipster football takes, but that's just nuts.
 
Bojan Djordjic said:
Yeah, I'm very nervous about us getting rinsed for Gyokeres and then him being not up to the standard for the Premier League. There's such a pitiful dearth of quality strikers at the moment that there isn't one dead cert you could bank on buying and knowing they would be class for us.
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Same. He'll be 27 when next season starts so he's in his prime, but I just fear that people are looking at his stats for Sporting, together with his familiarity with Amorim, and concluding he's the magical missing piece in the jigsaw. His career prior to Sporting is pretty average, so he could just be a relatively late bloomer and the one that got away for Brighton. Isak's career prior to Newcastle didn't exactly scream superstar either, and maybe his compatriot would deliver something similar in the PL.

But it's equally likely, or more likely imo, that people are putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5 here. I'd just like to get feedback from people who actually watch him.
 
Kinsella said:
Same. He'll be 27 when next season starts so he's in his prime, but I just fear that people are looking at his stats for Sporting, together with his familiarity with Amorim, and concluding he's the magical missing piece in the jigsaw. His career prior to Sporting is pretty average, so he could just be a relatively late bloomer and the one that got away for Brighton. Isak's career prior to Newcastle didn't exactly scream superstar either, and maybe his compatriot would deliver something similar in the PL.

But it's equally likely, or more likely imo, that people are putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5 here. I'd just like to get feedback from people who actually watch him.
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It's much more likely we grab Quenda and a PL proven striker imo
 
gulli_G said:
RWB - Quenda
CM - Baleba/Ederson
ST - Gyokeres
CAM/L10 Cunha/Dibbling
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Think you’ve almost hit nail on the head, I think we will prioritise in this order:

ST - Gyokeres
RWB - Quenda looks to be very likely
CM - Ederson
CB - Schlotterbeck

These would be bonus signings:
CAM - Cunha/Mbeumo/Dibbling
GK - ?
 
croadyman said:
Who you thinking for prem striker then?
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I really don't know. The bar is set so low that pretty much every teams no 9 looks better than ours. But all PL strikers look physically stronger since the defenders tend to be much stronger here.

The Portuguese league always looks a lot more open at the back, and when I see montages if goals from there I'm dubious similar goals could be scored in our league.
 
What about Mehdi Taremi on loan, always a sub for Inter (Martinez & Thuram ahead of him) but still is a pressing machine when he gets on the pitch. I’m sure we have been linked before. Could play in those 10 positions too
 
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