BR is chatting with simpson,fuchs and morgan is on an as your needed to play /coaching badge contract
so just before le french fella was booted down le rue
i was going to look at the city squad to see where we needed to get cover.
simpson was obviously out along with fuchs to usa and this left me wondering how deep our squad actually was and was le french man going to have kids covering kids?
a few have mentioned we probably need to buy a few older experienced premiership players for certain positions to provide a challenge and cover added to older head for the kids to see how things are done in games.
Current Squad
1 Kasper Schmeichel (G)
12 Danny Ward (G)
17 Eldin Jakupovic (G) going
2 Danny Simpson (D) cover
3 Ben Chilwell (D)
28 Christian Fuchs (D) cover
18 Daniel Amartey (M) cover sell?
4 Caglar Soyuncu (D) untested
5 Wes Morgan (D) coach\bench
6 Jonny Evans (D)
15 Harry Maguire (D)
32 Filip Benkovic (D) untested
10 James Maddison (M)
11 Marc Albrighton (M)
14 Ricardo Pereira (M)
21 Youri Tielemans (M) loan\ going\ buy
25 Onyinye Ndidi (M)
32 Harvey Barnes (M)
22 Matthew James (M) cover?
24 Nampalys Mendy (M) cover?
7 Demarai Gray (M) ??
31 Rachid Ghezzal (M) ? sell
9 Jamie Vardy (F)
8 Kelechi Iheanacho (F)
13 Ahmed Musa (F) loan sell
20 Shinji Okazaki (F) sell ?
block of 20/23 yr olds most out on loan
40 Layton Ndukwu (F)
33 Elliott Moore (D) loaned out
45 Sam Hughes (D)
38 Hamza Choudhury (M)
33 Bartosz Kapustka (M) loaned out
59 Thakgalo Leshabela (M)
40 Layton Ndukwu (F) loaned out
Callum Elder lbloaned out
George Thomas lw loaned out
Fousseni Diabaté loaned out
Islam Slimani on loan sell
Andy King cast in bronze and stick in the carpark
but when you look at it we really are thinly stretched for decent cover let alone a strong 20 man squad and if mcguire and chilwell go hmmm,
1 Kasper Schmeichel (G)
cover-- 12 Danny Ward (G)
14 Ricardo Pereira (M) 3 Ben Chilwell (D)
cover-- 2 Danny Simpson (D) 28 Christian Fuchs (D)
6 Jonny Evans (D) 15 Harry Maguire (D)
cover-- 4 Caglar Soyuncu (D) 5 Wes Morgan (D) 32 Filip Benkovic (D)
10 James Maddison (M) 11 Marc Albrighton (M) 25 Onyinye Ndidi (M)
cover-- 22 Matthew James (M) 31 Rachid Ghezzal (M) 24 Nampalys Mendy (M)
32 Harvey Barnes (M) 9 Jamie Vardy (F)
cover-- 8 Kelechi Iheanacho (F) 7 Demarai Gray (M)
current squad
posted on 29/3/19
eh Up Dub's, This is why i don'y want to qualify for Europe this season. We need more striking alternatives we can't just rely on Vardy for ever.
posted on 29/3/19
What a load of tosh, it’s gett into Europe that helps retain your best players and attract new quality ones.
Get the feeling Nev is just trying to cover for two years of failure by Puel.
posted on 29/3/19
I agree with both of you but Burnley have proven you can't do both with a 15 man squad
And will the euopa pull in the better players for a few seasons to allow us to build,,
Obviously not champions league players
I think Rogers knows we are thin on the ground especially with experienced players
So we may see a few of the old ones that were going now staying for an other year,,
If not its going to be a major summer signing session with about 8 players coming in,
posted on 29/3/19
Dubs
Burnley aren’t a very good comparison.
They couldn’t stay in The Premier League when we did.
They could WIN the Premier League when we did.
They couldn’t get to the CL quarters when we did.
ALL with a relatively small core squad of players, yes we need to improve, that’s obvious but being successful is a major part of that, we’ve never had a massively strong squad.
Not wanting failure, may as well Drop down the divisions until our squad is better than anyone else’s.
posted on 29/3/19
Musa was sold last year...
posted on 29/3/19
List I saw said loan 🤷♀️
One off the list
posted on 29/3/19
I'm with Nev and TB.
I have concerns about qualifying for Europe with our squad, but I also agree we need that to attract better quality players - a conundrum indeed.
Time to get:
- a proper right back;
- a good left back back up if Fuchs is off to the USA;
- a decent back up for Vards; and critically
- Tielemans!
posted on 29/3/19
I have fallen into TB's funny how the player where up for the Champions league while in a sprial to the relagtion zone. Season Before we did the impossialbe we had to do the impossiable and beat relegation.
This season we are first the first time since we where promoted not going to be relgated or win the premier.
We are a team in transition also do you think Wolves will finish below us the way they are playing?
posted on 29/3/19
If Claude was still in charge I'd say no chance. With Brendan we might do it.
I can see us overtaking West Ham, but falling short of Wolves/Watford. It'll be interesting to see how we do.