Signings like Vieira and Sambi have absolutely fucked us and we’ve paid a premium to go backwards in certain positions.
Pivotal positions. We don’t need to outsmart the market every single time, just need to not play ourselves. We have enough youth, we need more experienced talent in this squad.
You look at City with Akanji and Ake, two simple masterclass transfers.
Throw Kiwior in there. Don’t wanna be too harsh but it’s just another player we can’t use right now.
Simply not the window you do when you enter the World Cup top of the league.
Caicedo and Rice needed.
Or 2 CMs at least
Because Partey has played like shit and I don’t wanna rely on him anymore for obvious reasons.
Edu will try a last minute release clause but.
Damage is yet to be calculated on those guys. We may, may recoup some money and there’s no harm in taking a risk. But what really puzzles me is the release clause on Vieira. Why did we pay that? What did Arteta see because we haven’t seen shit.
Nah, if we get money for them it was still very damaging. We needed contributors right now.
Honestly I don’t care about money. I’d rather pay more -increase the monetary risk but go for actual proven talent. Doesn’t even have to be this league but not someone whos putting in shadow performances for a club in Portugal.
Last year was a learning experience, this is a learning experience. The football has gotten better our business still just isn’t as the level of an elite club
I feel you, I do. It’s not my money so who cares. I was on board with a six month rental for Felix.
I think a real elite club does both. Madrid do both, Bayern used to do both, City do both. We could have done both.
Arteta still sees something, that’s why he sometimes starts
I think there’s talent there but he’s been shit so far.
Let’s see how he goes next season, but may need to take the L on him.
Vieira starting was just madness from Arteta. He clearly doesn’t trust him the entire season. I don’t know what that’s about.
Felt a lowkey message about Jorginho not being what he wanted. Final minute signing that was.
What is it though? Because he was so bad against Southampton that if it was the NFL he’d get cut from the roster. And I generally like speculative signings but this has been a waste of a season for him.
As long is one of them responsible for revoking Rob Holding’s ID card to the building it’s fine with me.
Need to hire a Zen master in the summer to help with the nerves kicking in next season when we’re top of the table on matchday 32 and the ghoul of Man City chasing us up.
We need 2 CMs
Rice AND Caicedo, not one.
But this is edu so I doubt that is what happens
This match really exposed how much work the midfield needs.
I feel like Rice and Caicedo would be a horrible pivot. Money aside it should be one or the other from a footballing point of view.
Bum.
At a certain point we’re going to have to start supplementing our golden generation of talent by actually landing our first choice targets in the fucking market.
Game moves to fast to constantly be buying up 2nd and 3rd choices on the cheap
Yeah, perhaps Caicedo and Rice offer us better defensive stability but it’s absolutely a downgrade offensively.
I don’t think the next step this team needs is to become more conservative. We shoehorned Xhaka in the left 8 role, which involves more attacking than defending. Why not get someone who can actually
do that instead of signing two defensively minded midfielders and hope one of them develops into a more advanced role?
Yeh I agree, who do you fancy for that role next season?