Scott Harris
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Pretty much this. I'm actually concerned with where we are going on and off the pitch.
On the pitch, we look awful. Our attack is unbelievably bad, none of the front 3 look comfortable, it's not helping that none of them are playing in their favoured position. Sterling is a winger and Mount and Havertz are attacking midfielders. This is Mount's 4th season with us now and he is still expected to play that left forward role. The defence looks weaker and the midfield is pathetic without Kante and Kovacic. Injuries destroyed us last season and the same thing is already happening again this season. Losing Rudiger and Christensen is a huge blow and the fact that they both haven't been replaced yet is a big problem. We simply cannot expect to compete with 3 CB's at the age of 38, 33 and 32. It's already well known that Azpilicueta's legs aren't what they used to be and early signs are very concerning when it comes to Koulibaly. I have already said a few times that Koulibaly feels like a signing 5 years too late.
Off the pitch, I think we are handling ourselves terribly in the transfer market. It just feels like we are throwing around money without actually thinking. Signing Chukwuemeka for £20m is very odd. The moves for both Fofana and Aubameyang are becoming desperate. Like Koulibaly, Aubameyang would feel like a signing 5 years too late and if things go wrong, they will both need replacing again next season. Why are we so unable to find a good young forward when the rest of Europe manages it so much better than us? and if we wanted Fofana so badly, we should have moved much quicker instead of f**king about trying to sign De Ligt and flip flopping on Kounde. As for Gordon......I don't have words to describe it.
Cucurella was a good signing, but he cost way more than we should be paying for him. It's now left us open to being taken advantage of by other clubs. Clubs will ask for another 10-20m more because of this, just like how United have been overspending for the dross they have been signing in recent years. City must be kicking themselves, they could easily have gotten another 20m out of us for Sterling.
There are other issues too, like Jorginho and Kante being in the last year of their contracts, which means we will be desperately looking for midfielders just like we are desperately looking for CB's this season. The squad is also still full of players that need to be moved on. We have been slowly doing it in recent weeks with Sarr going out on loan and getting 15m for Emerson, but there is still so much that needs clearing out. Alonso, Rahman, Ampadu, Barkley, Gilmour, Kenedy, Batshuayi, these all need to be moved on, with Gilmour preferably going out on another loan. The talk of Ziyech and Pulisic leaving should be off the cards, there is no time to replace them and Hudson-Odoi is expected to go out on loan too. We have a week left of this transfer window, what squad are we going to be left with if things carry on like this?
