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If the Delaney story is true, I can see us going for Youssouf Fofana. Very similar profile as Rice in the sense that he can play as a 6 and an 8.
I call bullshit. We have 4 fucking sixes already. We need to sell, not buy.
Are you counting Elneny? He's not really fit. So 3.
My suspicion is we want two defensive 8 options but neither Jorginho nor Partey can play there.
Because if Rice gets injured now we're fucked.
Partey can definitely play there, he played 8 at Atlético Madrid. Elneny's gonna be fit soon enough, and will probably be here this season given we just extended him to let him recover, at most being sold in January cuz I don't see someone buying him right now while the return time is unknown. We don't have room for any more signings lol. We have like a 33 man squad right now, and we can only register 25.
Even just counting players with the new kit for their portrait, we have 27. The only players there I'd say are redundant are Cedric and Runarsson. I'd rather have Holding than a fifth 6, given we have so many injury prone fullbacks. If Zinny and Tierney and Tomi all get problems like they usually do, we're down to Gabriel, Kiwior, and Saliba as the only CBs if we sell Holding. And that also means only having one option for RB and LB — Timber and White. While losing all those fullbacks would be unlucky as fuck, Zinny is injury prone, Tierney can literally slip in the shower and be out for months, and Tomi... has been frankly stupidly unlucky.
Elneny's injury will keep him out and without match fitness until at least Jan.
Cedric, Holding, Runarsson, Okonkwo, Marquinhos, Tavares, Balogun. Possible even Tierney. That's 7-8 players leaving.
Coming in will be Raya, maybe a RW. And now maybe a CDM. I'm not saying it's likely, but I can see it happening.
Not convinced it'll take that long with Elneny given he's in training already but I'm no expert. You forgot Sambi btw.
Even after all those departures, though, we're still just at 25 lol. You could sell Tierney yeah but then you'd just have to replace him unless you wanted Holding to be RCB backup again, cuz you'd have to move Timber to LB.
Our current squad:
GKs: Ramsdale, Hein, Runarsson, Okonkwo (4)
DF: Zinchenko, Tierney, Tavares, Gabriel, Kiwior, Saliba, Timber, Holding, White, Tomiyasu, Cedric (11)
MF: Partey, Rice, Jorginho, Elneny, Lokonga, ESR, Havertz, Ødegaard, Vieira (9)
FW: Saka, Nelson, Pepe, Marquinhos, Jesus, Nketiah, Balogun, Martinelli, Trossard (9)
That's 33 without Raya. We need to sell or loan 8 to even register everyone without Raya. Saka and Saliba and Hein are 21 now so we have to register them.