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Dream Summer Transfer Window

So dream window. For me a dream use of this window would see us sell off, or move on in some way, as much of our discarded players as possible, bring back our best youth to be involved, spend our warchest sensibly and improve as many areas as we can. 

To that effect mine would look something like this. 

Already out that we know of:

Saul (loan return)

Drinkwater 

Charly Musonda

Rudiger

Christensen

Loan returns:

Gallagher

Gilmour (if he signs new deal)

Broja

Colwill

Ampadu

Sterling

Maatsen

Baxter

Sales:

RLC - 10mill

Gilmour - 5mill (if he won't sign a new deal)

Emerson - 10mill

Alonso - 10mill

Dave - 2mill

Kepa - 50mill (thank you Newcastle?)

Jorginho - 20mill

Werner - 25mill

Lukaku (player exchange)

Pulisic - 25mill

Signings:

Bastoni (player exchange)

Martinez (player exchange)

Kounde -45 mill

Phillips - 50mill

Bissouma- 35mill

David - 40mill

My Ideal would be Marina manages to solve Inters money problems by getting them to take back Lukaku with some cash while giving us Martinez and Bastoni. 

Assuming we remain with the 343 system would give TT this sort of squad.

Keepers:

Mendy

Baxter

Marcus B

CBs:

Kounde (Chalobah)

Silva (Ampadu)

Bastoni (Colwill)

WBs:

James (Sterling)

Chilwell (Maatsen)

DCM:

Philips (Gilmour/Ampadu)

CMs:

Kante (Gallagher)

Kovacic (Bissouma)

Forwards (all interchangeable)

David

Havertz

Martinez

Broja

Mount

CHO

Ziyech

That is one forwards too many and I am undecided who I would get to leave. If a good loan came up for Broja maybe him, or a good offer for CHO or Ziyech. 

A front 3 of a combination from Mount, Havertz, David and Martinez could be quite fun.

Would be open to replacing the likes of Ampadu, Sterling, Maatsen or Gilmour if a good replacement was suggested, just don't know of any off the top of my head.

 
Gk - Mendy, Kepa, Betinelli

Def - Chillwell, James, Maatsen, Thiago Silva, Chalobah, Kounde, De Light, Ampadu, Colwill

Mid - Rice, Kante, Kovacic, RLC, Gilmour, Gallagher

Forwards - Mount, Havertz, Werner, Broja, Hudson Odoi, Dembele, Sterling

Buy - Kounde 60m, De light 80m, Rice 80m, Sterling 50m, Dembele Free transfer - Estimated expenditure - 270m

Sell - Jorginho 30m, Lukaku 45m, Alonso 10m, Azpilicutta 5m, Pulisic 30m, Ziech 30m, Kenedy 5m, Sarr 5m, Barkley 5m - Bakayoko 5m Batshuyi 5m - Estimated total income - 175m
Formation - 3-4-3
                                
                               (Kepa)
                               Mendy

           (Chalobah) (Ampadu)  (Colwill)
               De light      Silva       Kounde
(CHO)                                                (Maatsen)
James                                                  Chilwell
                      (RLC)      (Kovacic)
                     Rice               Kante
        (Dembele)                          (Werner)
         Sterling                                 Mount
                                (Broja)
                               Havertz
(Betinelli)
(Gallagher)
(Gilmour)
(Vale)
(Clarke-Salter)
(Anjorin)
Formation - 4-3-3

                                 (Kepa)
                                 Mendy

  (CHO)     (Chalobah)   (Silva)      (Maatsen)
James      De Light        Kounde     Chilwell

                             (Gilmour)
                                Kante
           (Gallagher)             (Kovacic)
              Rice                         Mount
   (RLC)                                         (Werner)
Dembele                                       Sterling
                              (Broja)
                              Havertz



Versatility -

RLC - CB, RWB, DM, FWD
CHO - RWB, RB, LWB, FWD
Chalobah - CB, RB, RWB
Colwill - CB, LWB
James - RWB, CB, DM
Ampadu - CB, DM

 
axman2526 said:
Gilmour - 5mill (if he won't sign a new deal)
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If he contract rebels after the season he's just had then I won't lose any sleep.

It would be a shame as I do have long term hope for him (his style of player tend to be a bit behind their time in terms of when they develop/peak) but being pressured into giving a place to a player who is just off a season where he was one of the poorest performers at one of the worst ever PL teams would set an awful precedence.

 
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Argo said:
If he contract rebels after the season he's just had then I won't lose any sleep.

It would be a shame as I do have long term hope for him (his style of player tend to be a bit behind their time in terms of when they develop/peak) but being pressured into giving a place to a player who is just off a season where he was one of the poorest performers at one of the worst ever PL teams would set an awful precedence.
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He wasn’t though; he just isn’t the type of player you start when you are fighting a relegation battle & need all sleeves rolled up. You stick Jorginho in that Norwich side and he wouldn’t do any better.

 
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He wasn’t though; he just isn’t the type of player you start when you are fighting a relegation battle & need all sleeves rolled up. You stick Jorginho in that Norwich side and he wouldn’t do any better.
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It isn't about him getting relegated, Gallagher went down season before last and I wanted him as part of the squad season just gone.

I try and avoid getting into comparing the two but last time Jorginho was at a similar club was Hellas Verona in Serie A and his performances were one of the biggest reasons he didn't have to "roll his sleeves up" which in turn earned him his move to Naples (and had us, Arsenal and Liverpool monitoring him).

The Norwich fans who watched him week in week out make my feelings towards Lukaku look like fanboyish. I closely follow fan opinions of all our loanees (that I think have a chance of making it) and it is by far the worst feedback I've seen in my 15 years doing such.

As I said long term I have hope for him (and I actually think the pandemic f**ked him more than anyone) but he absolutely needs another loan.

 
Argo said:
It isn't about him getting relegated, Gallagher went down season before last and I wanted him as part of the squad season just gone.

I try and avoid getting into comparing the two but last time Jorginho was at a similar club was Hellas Verona in Serie A and his performances were one of the biggest reasons he didn't have to "roll his sleeves up" which in turn earned him his move to Naples (and had us, Arsenal and Liverpool monitoring him).

The Norwich fans who watched him week in week out make my feelings towards Lukaku look like fanboyish. I closely follow fan opinions of all our loanees (that I think have a chance of making it) and it is by far the worst feedback I've seen in my 15 years doing such.

As I said long term I have hope for him (and I actually think the pandemic f**ked him more than anyone) but he absolutely needs another loan.
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Not sure what happened there, but if I remember correctly, at least he got 2 MOTM awards when Dean Smith took over (plus a previous one for Scotland against England), and I seem to remember that he got some good opinions from the Norwich supporters early in the season. Then things started to go wrong, why? No idea, but you don’t get to be the best player on the pitch twice in a row and then just become the worst player of a relegated team from one week to another without a reason. 

 
RMH said:
Not sure what happened there, but if I remember correctly, at least he got 2 MOTM awards when Dean Smith took over (plus a previous one for Scotland against England), and I seem to remember that he got some good opinions from the Norwich supporters early in the season. Then things started to go wrong, why? No idea, but you don’t get to be the best player on the pitch twice in a row and then just become the worst player of a relegated team from one week to another without a reason. 
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I'm not sure either but I take a lot of weight in fan opinion and they wouldn't have been so harsh on him for fun. It's not even like Jorgi here who divides opinion, it's almost universally agreed his time has been a shocker.

As I've already touched on I think lockdown had a massive negative effect on him. To not even be allowed to train for months after those performances against the Scouse duo must have been a massive mental setback at a developing age.

Ironically we probably missed a trick not sending him there when they were in the Champ as Oliver Skipp done very well in that role there in that division.

 
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Attack:

Buy: Dembele, Nkunku ( Sterling & Gnabry as secondary options)

Sell: Lukaku, Werner, Pulisic & Broja (if we recieve a good offer)

Midfield:

Buy: Bissouma + Gallagher back from loan

Sell: Jorginho

Defence:

Buy: Kounde, Gvardiol + Colwill back from loan

Wingbacks:

Buy: Sergino Dest + Emerson back from loan

Sell: Alonso & Azpilicueta

Team:

-----------------------------Mendy/Kepa--------------------------

----Kounde/Chalobah---Thiago/Colwill------Gvardiol----------

James/Dest---------------------------------------Chilwell/Emerson

-----------------Bissouma/Kante-------Gallagher/Kova-----------

------Dembele/CHO-----Nkunku/Havertz----Mount/Ziyech------

Can easily be turned into a 4:3:3 with the quality in midfield.

 
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Tbh I actually wanted Sulé and De Ligt as our core defence with Silva in and out the side to coach these 2 behemoths on how to play strategically like Puyol and Pique. We would have been a beast in defence with these 2.

One would have been free and another at 80m. 80m for 2 upcoming CBs is very cheap compared to the 100m+ we now have to pay because of how slow we were in the market and with the slowness of the takeover

 
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