07-07-2017, 06:36 PM
Nice post ACM1983.
I don't know why but I don't feel neither Auba, Belotti nor Morata are appropriate for us (taking everything into account: quality, age, price). For starters I'm not sure how we intend to play next year but we definitely will be using the 433 primarily unless we sign a WC striker and will be forced to play with 2 strikers (352, 442, 4312). I imagine Silva has been brought to be a starter and I'm sure he will be... but if we bring one of those three, I think we must play with 2 and that's going to hurt Suso as he's predominantly a RW and we aren't sure if he'd do well anywhere else.
I personally feel we should spend Auba's money on the person who's been allowing Auba to score all these goals. I'd go for Ousmane Dembele. He'd slot so nicely in LW, then we can bring in another CF like Kalinic who probably would be okay to sit on the bench and would also be suitable if we wanted to play with 2 strikers. Of course there's Ibra too who'd cost less than what Kalinic would cost for one year (Kalinic has a 15-20m buyout clause + 6m annual salary gross, Ibra probably 10-12m annually gross). Signing Ibra too would mean we'll be playing with 2 strikers because I can't imagine Ibra will be happy sitting on the bench with Silva starting.
We desperately need some speed up front though. We don't have any strikers or midfielders that have blistering pace. Bacca was relatively fast but he's out. Keita would've been good but he's not coming. Kessie has good speed but not ultra fast. We need someone with Auba/Pato kind of speed. It's an important weapon to have in the squad.
Dembele should cost ~75m which is as much as Auba but he's 8 years younger with SO MUCH more potential. He's a unique kind of player. If he continues developing in the right way and works on his character (which is already good) he's going to be an elite WC player in 2 years (in my opinion).
There there's also Weigl that's interesting but bringing Biglia would be more appropriate as it'd allow us to give room to Locatelli to grow too. I believe in Locatelli and thinks he needs more playing time under no pressure. With our sales of 60m, we can also buy another midfielder to play besides Biglia and Kessie.
Interesting times ahead.
I don't know why but I don't feel neither Auba, Belotti nor Morata are appropriate for us (taking everything into account: quality, age, price). For starters I'm not sure how we intend to play next year but we definitely will be using the 433 primarily unless we sign a WC striker and will be forced to play with 2 strikers (352, 442, 4312). I imagine Silva has been brought to be a starter and I'm sure he will be... but if we bring one of those three, I think we must play with 2 and that's going to hurt Suso as he's predominantly a RW and we aren't sure if he'd do well anywhere else.
I personally feel we should spend Auba's money on the person who's been allowing Auba to score all these goals. I'd go for Ousmane Dembele. He'd slot so nicely in LW, then we can bring in another CF like Kalinic who probably would be okay to sit on the bench and would also be suitable if we wanted to play with 2 strikers. Of course there's Ibra too who'd cost less than what Kalinic would cost for one year (Kalinic has a 15-20m buyout clause + 6m annual salary gross, Ibra probably 10-12m annually gross). Signing Ibra too would mean we'll be playing with 2 strikers because I can't imagine Ibra will be happy sitting on the bench with Silva starting.
We desperately need some speed up front though. We don't have any strikers or midfielders that have blistering pace. Bacca was relatively fast but he's out. Keita would've been good but he's not coming. Kessie has good speed but not ultra fast. We need someone with Auba/Pato kind of speed. It's an important weapon to have in the squad.
Dembele should cost ~75m which is as much as Auba but he's 8 years younger with SO MUCH more potential. He's a unique kind of player. If he continues developing in the right way and works on his character (which is already good) he's going to be an elite WC player in 2 years (in my opinion).
There there's also Weigl that's interesting but bringing Biglia would be more appropriate as it'd allow us to give room to Locatelli to grow too. I believe in Locatelli and thinks he needs more playing time under no pressure. With our sales of 60m, we can also buy another midfielder to play besides Biglia and Kessie.
Interesting times ahead.