Tsimikas this year Taki last year along with adrian The year before there where quite a few along with allison So being as weve brought at least one in every year I'd call that consistent
This season is going to be very condensed, something that hasn't happened before. With this in mind and taking onboard and agreeing with previous comments about Klopp knowing what he's doing, he hasn't faced this type of managing before and doesn't know the impact on his players this type of season will have. I'm not one to clamour for new signings either but I think the closeness of games that we will be experiencing this season will be different to what we normally have when CL games kick in. It will potentially be games every 3 days for large parts of the season and for that reason I think we need maybe one or two additions to the squad to cope with that. Klopp won't overplay the youngsters and that is really the only alternative with the amount of and speed at which the fixtures will be coming at us. It's unprecedented times and unchartered waters. We need to be fully prepared and equipped for it.
I'm fair confident of at least one other signing coming in, as long as we don't lose anybody we should have enough. If we have an injury crisis we may struggle, but any club would, you need luck as well as skill to do well.
We haven't replaced Lovren. Fabinho can play there and we have two youngsters Van den Berg and Koumetio who could come off the bench but another experienced CB would be good. Apparently we are close to signing Doku (spl) Anderlecht young forward with the plan to loan him back for the season. Chris Wilder has said they are close to getting a striker on loan - Brewster?
Those players will need time to settle and adjust. With games coming thick and fast, that could prove quite costly. There is always room for arguments here. I'm just playing devil's advocate.
I know mate. Now I've had more time to think about it I'd say that most clubs are acting in the transfer market exactly as they normally do. Remains to be seen if our normal strategy works.
I think we've got very high hopes for the current crop of centre backs, we do seem to have quite a numver coming through at once. Personally I'm hoping hoever and van de berg can step up and fill in if necessary.
Chelsea look to have terrifying forward line on paper, unfortunately the games not football manger and their main issue was defensive which they've done little to remedy.
