Agree that Bentancur made the difference on his return from injury and that he isn't good enough to be starting in a top 6 team every week.
We're not a top 6 club, so do with that what you will...
For me.I will start at the other end and it's easy... We start again, from scratch.
Solanke, Richie, Muani, Xavi, Tel should all be gone or talking to their agents. They're no where near the level needed to succeed or even stay in this league. We need to spend big money on good players.
Will Kulu ever play for us again? Maddison isn't the player he was at Leicester and to be honest that was a 2nd or 3rd choice pick because other players had jogged us on. We need much better ball players in AM.
Bergval is a kid and has done great but I think he needs better players round him to be effective and isn't a player who will drag a game in a direction himself... Yet.
Sarr is nice and tidy and can get round the pitch but he again lacks any real authority as a CM.
I think VDV is gone, he's very very good and could get in almost any side... I think a big Spanish Giant will sniff and he'll be gone. Shame as he's probably our only world class player, but if it gets us cash to fix all the problems we have so be it. Romero has been discussed and we'll use that cunts fee also.
We have decent CBs out on loan and they need assessing but they have to be better than Danso... How can anyone realistically look so uncomfortable on a football pitch and get to this level. Every time he gets the ball I think "it's make a wish" time... Look I appreciate he leaves it all out there and that he clearly doesn't go near our medical team, but he is not as some have suggested before in anyway shape or form... World class. He'd probably be awesome in the championship, maybe that was the plan all along...?
I like Djed, I like Poro and I like Destiny. We need cover for both fullbacks and I can see why Robertson makes sense... But if we buy some old knacker like him it shouldn't stop us getting a kid in as well.
Keepers is easy... Vic is mental and may as well not have feet and that causes our defence to shit a brick and not trust him and sit in too much alongside many other issues when you're scared your keeper can't be trusted... Kinky is steady and has real mental strength... Dunno if Austin is still here... Guess we need a back up keeper?
As others have said, where is the player pipeline? Where are the youth on our bench, even in the worst injury crisis I've ever seen, they weren't there. This is shambolic and if we're trying to just buy players we've shown we're also shit at that... We have to have these kids coming through.
Maybe what I've said above is too much for one summer when top players are at the world cup... But a serious club would have already addressed this and had those deals set up now... I don't think we are a serious club anymore... I think the criminal owner giving it to their nepo kids who haven't had a real challenge in their lives is the pinnacle of our problems and it's filtered down throughout the product...
Levy was a penny pinching cunt for sure, but he was better than the clowns we have right now... They've been hapless from the start and any club that burns through 3 managers while enduring an injury crisis and a relegation scrap is not being run right and I think it starts at the very top.
I don't see us getting any of the players we need, I expect RDZ will make us better but ultimately we'll be looking for someone else this time next season because he'll maybe have got us to 12th or 14th and no one will be happy with that really...
We're not getting a "war chest" we're probably still paying Mourinio off...!!!
Things are bad, and until we fix the rot at the centre of it all we'll never be fixed right...
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