Priority for the winter has to be the defence, first choice back 4 of Tino, Thiaw, Botman, Hall is great but then Trippier, Burn, Schar and Target all need replacing in the next 3/4 windows as all 30+ and while good back up currently they can’t play on forever. A FB who can play both sides and a young prospect (u21) CB for me in winter are needed.
I thought Shaher was already considered a good u21 prospect at RB? Plus Alex Murphy on the left. Plus I think we have a couple of decent U21s at CB. I think that youth development piece will be key. Start integrating them with the first team a bit more.
if I had to put money on one of the youth coming through it would be Shahar in a few years but not right now and maybe not in time to replace Trippier. Murphy, in my (amateur) opinion won’t make the grade but CB’s can develop later - kind of contradictory to what I'm saying about bringing in a young CB for the first team but Scalvini, Diomonde, Amchepong all 21or younger playing high level first team football. That’s the kind of quality I'm talking about.