Fair enough, I’m fairly fickle. Lots of extremely early dives since then.
It obviously won’t happen but it’s a damn shame the likes of Saliba, Rice, Odegaard and Saka won’t be sent off to start an extended break now.
In the case of Rice and Saka, these two have been playing continuously for around 4 years now with long seasons followed by international tournaments.
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We still haven’t secured CL football next season mate. Let’s do that first and then worry about resting.
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and then when they’re inevitably injured for long periods of time…everyone has a shocked Pikachu face.
The club needs to act and get reliable cover this summer.
We will not have the budget to get cover for players like Rice and Saka AND then fill the obvious gaps. We will need an element of luck with injuries
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Hopefully we can start with filling the key gaps first in that case.
No more experimental, weird signings or strange dreams Arteta please.
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That article is insane. Sell Kiwior and Trossard. Release BOTH Partey and Jorginho.
How much work would we have to do in the transfer window? One of the biggest problems was our laughable bench we had the pain of seeing in approximately 70% of our games.
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I agree with you that we are going to need to be careful about outgoings. The squad is very thin atm and we need to address our attack. If we are not careful we will end up spending significant sums of our transfer budget on replacements for players we could retain for another season - Kiwior being an obvious candidate given his recent performances. Providing there is no legal obstacle, offering Partey another short term deal also makes sense, notwithstanding Zubimendi’s expected arrival!
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I don’t think the size of the squad will change next season.
You’re still looking at about 25 players.
The overall quality of that 25 might change.
Well yeah, that’s the goal.
Get a decent keeper to compete with Raya.
Replace Kiwior who’ll probably look for more game time next season.
Find a successor to Partey.
Upgrade on Trossard.
Upgrade on Jesus.
what happens to Martinelli? Think he should be relegated to the sub or sell too?
Unless we get some ridiculous fee from the Saudis I’d say keep.
Let him compete with whoever we bring. Not a bad player to have around either way. Can see him do pretty well off the bench.
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If the club has got any sense they’ll be sending Saliba, Skelly (moreso thinking long term here before overload becomes a problem), Rice, Odegaard and Saka off to start their holidays tomorrow.
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