by Eagle » Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:13 pm
Baring another injury disaster, I’m pretty confident the squad we have now will challenge for the title. Numbers wise we are ok and we have cover in all areas thanks to the signing of Konate. The key exits are probably Shaqiri and Origi which will free up wages and 2 non-home grown spots. With those 2 exits I think we’d look to bring in an attacker and a midfielder rather than 2 attackers due the number of injuries we pick up in midfield. Wouldn’t surprise me if we saw another left field signing like Jota that no one has mentioned before. Also Klopp does like a signing from the PL so wouldn’t surprise me if we ended up with someone like Bissouma for midfield. I don’t think we’ll see a “marquee” signing as I think Klopp has his best 11 at the club already. I think we’ll go big in the transfer market once he is ready to reduce the influence of one of his regulars or one of them wants to move on.
Man City haven’t bought anyone in yet and have lost Sergio Aguero and Eric Garcia. Not sure I get the Jack Grealish rumour. I can’t see them spending north of £80mil on a player who wouldn’t be an improvement on the options they already have. Personally I think it’s just his agent using the press to put pressure on Villa to give him a bigger deal. As they’ve lost Aguero, I can see City going in hard for Kane but it’s a tough deal to do. He’s got 3 years on his contract and Levy isn’t going to do him any favours unless that money can be used to bring in a couple of really good players but Spurs are not an attractive proposition right now without a high profile manager and no Champions League football.
Jadon Sancho is the only player who Man Utd have bought in. The fee isn’t too bad although the reported wage and agent fee are both pretty high. But Sancho is real quality and they’ve done well bringing him in. They are trying to get Varane in but it wouldn’t surprise me if he turns into an expensive flop. He doesn’t seem to be at the level he was a few years ago and instead of stepping up as Ramos’ influence declined he struggled. They’ve got a decision to make on Pogba. Looks like he is winding his contract down so try and cash in now or keep one of your best players for the season and let him go on a free next summer.
Chelsea have been quite so far after a busy summer last season. They’ve let Billy Gilmour go on loan for the season, got rid of Giroud, and got decent fees for Tomori and Guehi. So it might be that they are trying to slim down a bloated squad before adding anyone.
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Eagle on Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.