Duppy Conqueror

Gusto is only durable compared to Fofana and James.Gusto had a decent CWC but hasnt answered the question marks from last season when Maresca played him in a role that Acheampong was better at.but say Maresca decides to ditch that and stick to more of a conventional RB .Gusto has nothing major but routinely picks up knocks and niggles so you banking on when he does get those Reece isnt injured too or you playing Caicedo or Trev at RB. Weakening other areas of the team. At CB. Fofana should be classed as a +1. Nobody to count on showing up. Badi do we even count him? So that leaves Colwill as a regular starter (Hato if we sign hum as depth for LB and LCB) then Trev and Tosin As other options.experienced players that can sit out some games and come back in as required.certainly not ones that definately block Josh.Acheampong doesnt play like an inexperienced one,he's not perfect but he doesnt make as many errors as a fair few more experienced ones. I think there's ample games for him with us...maybe 10-15 less games than he would get at Bournemouth,but better level of games,with experiences in UCL and probably deeper in domestic cups. Having him on hand to ease him into the team gradually increasing his workload depending on how he does whilst retaining him for at minimun quality depth at positions we have 3 or 4 players that have serious durability concerns.he's not at an age where he really needs to play regularly,most his age are still playing age grade football.he's shown enough to be given more opportunities with us tho as we streamline the squad over the coming months.

He's one of our best defenders and can play 2 positons as his primary ones.which happens to have 3 players that miss alot of games through injuries. Green unready players are what loans are more useful for. Our current regime don't have a good record of loan to develop and keep.they mostly loan and if they do good they just increase their transfer fee.. Though it's probably a permanent transfer Bournemouth are looking to do.

Should be one of our untouchables.also needed for this season so not even for a loan. Is fine them maybe admiring him..

I'd sell Sterling for 99p wages off the book and forever have the shame of being valued less than items found in poundland! Kinda like when Bates bought Chelsea for a pound.(plus taking on our debts)

Maybe they want to buy two thirds of him now..

Celtic would call him Derry but Rangers would insist on calling him Londonderry....

Ekitike isnt a pure CF and would be better as a LF.if they don't sign Isak ,they can play Ekitike at CF but they can certainly play together.

Hato more of a priority to get over the line quickly. Bigger need,far bigger drop off to the next man up at what he offers. Looks like we lowballed them a tad with our first bid.(£34.7) would need to add a young player to get him without a bigger fee..of course they got their eye on atleast one of ours that happens to cover some of the positions Hato does.

Think i'll squirt if we get Hato..

I think when we bought Pedro we thought we were getting what we hoped Nkunku would be and so Simons wouldnt have been seen as needed.now weve seen how good Pedro can be as a complete 9, we don't have that deputy 10,LM/CAM hybrid side of him. Not really promoting getting yet another attacking midfielder but can i think see their thought process. My priority signing still is very much Hato above all others but as often is the case players don't get signed in order of priority. Having Simons would certainly save Palmer getting burnt out aswell as being able to play together in certain situations.

At LB can see shades of Ashley, can see him having similar trajectory if he were to focus on that position moving forward, even tho for me he has the skills to be good at upto 4 positions. I like how different he plays between LB and CB.he doesnt look like a LB being shoehorned into a position he's not comfortable in.he adapts his game to look very natural there.(he started out as a CB and continues to play there when required) I don't really want us to sign a CB* this window it's just nice to have the added option when a much more needed LB can do both. * Scalvini if he didnt have those recent injuries i'd be all over..wouldnt be against Guehi rejoining but otherwise think we should work with what we got.

Hope the priority behind the scenes is Hato.other positions have multiple good options.someone that can play LB let alone both LB and CB at a high level is much rarer.

Unless he's got Lupus he shouldnt need 3 weeks to complete a read & sign.

I thought the only football fans that were worried about Man U were their own...

Guy is a beautiful machine but machines breakdown at some point.gonna be tricky to find a good deputy for him but for me is the number 1 priority. Would love Hato,we could try to convince him that switching between LB and LCB would give him a regular flow of games.Veiga would have been good too but seems he's not prepared to roll up his sleeves and get stuck in.

First 2 have cost me in the hundreds of thousands to watch ,the latter i've watched free on DAZN. Different priorities..

For straight sell this summer anything over 40m for NJ would be a brucie bonus. failing that,a loan to a german club where he would basically play against similar defenses than he did against Spurs the last 2 seasons for 90% of the games. Killing it and raising his transfer fee whilst not really improving.

Good old Arse.not quite the mentally checked out Gallas and 10m for Ash King Cole style robbery but i'll take it.

I'm not too worried as it's not like a European cup finsl or a Premier league decider. But main hope we probsbly have is the french eat a few too many dodgy snails and bullfrogs..

Cheap Kuntz still probably haven't spent the money we gave them for Matic let alone Luiz or Enzo. Should be a player added for that fee.

Madueke and Petrovic money would pay for Hato and a quality starting keeper. Then we at most might need a quality starting RCB (although we do have plenty of options there already) Then just outgoings for me. We need 3 options at every position but no way we'll keep 36 players in squad so good that we go for players that can play multiple positions and always have cobham for a crisis.

Tournament with the heat giving me some Mexico '86 flashbacks,especially with Palmer having the Lineker wrist bandage..

Team i'd pick though wouldnt expect would be Sanchez Acheampong Tosin Chalobah Cucurella Caicedo Enzo Santos Palmer Pedro Neto If 4-3-3 or George for Santos if 4-2-3-1/3-3-3-1

With them being abit evasive in what the injury issues are with Lavia can't really tell if he's permafooked like Wesley. I wonder if he's diabetic or got long covid though because his healing time is slow as fook from whatever he gets. where as JT would get semi-decapitated and just sit out the morning training session.

Hope there's a decent sell on clause but either way better to sell players Maresca don't want because the lady is not for turning...