YorkshireBlue 3,299 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Are we in for a new David Luiz surprise lol.... I think not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 As things stand, this is the look of our squad at the moment... Mendy Kepa Caballero Azpi James Rudiger Zouma Christensen Tomori Silva Chilwell Emerson Alonso Jorginho Kante Kovacic Gilmour Mount Havertz Hudson-Odoi Ziyech Pulisic Werner Giroud Abraham Loftus-Cheek looks like he's heading out on loan and I excluded him. Otherwise, we have TEN freaking defenders! And that is without mentioning some of the deadwoods still at the club! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kante 1,643 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said: Looking at these games Zouma played as DM 3 times full 90mins. Against WH, Spurs and United and we won all 3 times with clean sheet. But anyway with our new offensive team and 3 new players in the back I think Jorgi-Kante may work well. Yeah, until we play a team who have a lot of hard runners and are big. Then they will run straight through us unless Kante gets back to 2015-18 level and stays fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kante 1,643 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jason said: As things stand, this is the look of our squad at the moment... Mendy Kepa Caballero Azpi James Rudiger Zouma Christensen Tomori Silva Chilwell Emerson Alonso Jorginho Kante Kovacic Gilmour Mount Havertz Hudson-Odoi Ziyech Pulisic Werner Giroud Abraham Loftus-Cheek looks like he's heading out on loan and I excluded him. Otherwise, we have TEN freaking defenders! And that is without mentioning some of the deadwoods still at the club! Tbf, a lot of the deadwood and a couplw of those listed can go to domestic teams. We still have another week to clear decks. Obviously not going to recoup much, and probably have to pay a lot of wages still, but it is what it is atm. We had to buy the caliber of players we did in the positions we did as we weren't good enough. Luckily for us we have Roman. If we had been a Spud type organisation the squad pre-2020-21 could've sunk us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Just now, King Kante said: Tbf, a lot of the deadwood and a couplw of those listed can go to domestic teams. We still have another week to clear decks. Obviously not going to recoup much, and probably have to pay a lot of wages still, but it is what it is atm. We had to buy the caliber of players we did in the positions we did as we weren't good enough. Luckily for us we have Roman. If we had been a Spud type organisation the squad pre-2020-21 could've sunk us. If you are thinking Premier League teams when you said "domestic teams", then no. The domestic only window allows Premier League clubs and clubs from lower divisions to do business with one another. Can you really see any of the deadwoods willing to drop to the Championship etc? Any business with Premier League clubs has to be done by the deadline tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,372 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 9 minutes ago, Jason said: If you are thinking Premier League teams when you said "domestic teams", then no. The domestic only window allows Premier League clubs and clubs from lower divisions to do business with one another. Can you really see any of the deadwoods willing to drop to the Championship etc? Any business with Premier League clubs has to be done by the deadline tonight. Players I can see going to Championship are Sterling, JCS, Drinkwater and Musonda. Baka and RLC are off today. Van Ginkel to PSV should be done. Sarr can finish the deal tomorrow with Porto because in Portugal is still open tomorrow. Have no idea what is going to happen with Moses and Baba. Rudi and both Alonso/Emerson staying is a problem for us but after they see their status in the team they will leave hopefully in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said: Players I can see going to Championship are Sterling, JCS, Drinkwater and Musonda. Baka and RLC are off today. Van Ginkel to PSV should be done. Sarr can finish the deal tomorrow with Porto because in Portugal is still open tomorrow. Have no idea what is going to happen with Moses and Baba. Rudi and both Alonso/Emerson staying is a problem for us but after they see their status in the team they will leave hopefully in January. If we are gonna loan Drinkwater to the Championship, it's likely we'll have to pay his full wages. No Championship will be able to afford him and especially in the current situation. That being said, all this is pointless if he doesn't want to drop down a division. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 This is a fucked-up situation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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R2D2 368 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Could that English team be us? Certainly ain't City so it leaves us and Liverpool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superblue 6,372 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, R2D2 said: Could that English team be us? Certainly ain't City so it leaves us and Liverpool. Or teams abroad. Barca and Real are possibilities. Bayern too, they took Sane this season and wanted Havertz to wait for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they've expressed interest in taking Sancho for the future. It's their M.O. to gut the domestic opposition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2D2 368 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 10 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said: Or teams abroad. Barca and Real are possibilities. Bayern too, they took Sane this season and wanted Havertz to wait for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they've expressed interest in taking Sancho for the future. It's their M.O. to gut the domestic opposition. It's mentioned in that tweet it's one Spanish team and one English one. Superblue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 1 minute ago, R2D2 said: It mentions in depth that it's one Spanish team and one English one. At this rate if we are gonna rentent all those dregs we can as well open another English and a spanish team of our own 1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said: How is he at DMF? He is a DMF by trade but a shit one at that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kante 1,643 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Law saying that we would've gone for Partey if we had managed to sell Rudiger and loaned some of the dregs. Shame it didn't happen. Would've been a great fit. bigbluewillie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, King Kante said: Law saying that we would've gone for Partey if we had managed to sell Rudiger and loaned some of the dregs. Shame it didn't happen. Would've been a great fit. This pandemic has benefitted and screwed us at the same time. We benefitted by being able to sign quality players that we might not have in normal circumstances but we got screwed because we aren't able to get rid of the deadwoods. bigbluewillie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MoroccanBlue 5,384 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Training is going to be a bit packed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Just great we now have 5 cbs, 7 cms and 4bs in the squad till January. Heck we even have victor Moses and can Ginkel back. I mean it was always a bit of a struggle to get rid of all the dregs this window but the Board was really cooperative offering loans while paying half the wages and shit. The market really screwed us. But what screwed us even more is our contract and player retention policy of recent years. 0007 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Our squad this season (or at least until January)... Massie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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