Just to point out, the window does not close until october 5th. The next window opens on January 1st. The risk of someone getting injured and having the need to buy is much reduced. Finally I was right. we bought nobody. apologies accepted.
Still don’t get why they didn’t bin off the league cup this year to help ease fixture congestion. Be nice if UEFA did similar with the CL one off games as well to knock a few more games off the calendar.
Chilwell is defensively definitely a step up on Alonso even if a step down offensively . I have doubts about how effective Silva will be tbh as i think the PL may be a bit of a shock to him . I was just pointing out they have attempted to deal with some of their defensive issues .
Sorry, yes theyve made an attempt, I find it odd that they've spunked so much money on so many forwards but defensively they added Chilwell, I quite like alonso mind and tgiago who has a good chance of being eaten alive. They still have a calamity of a keeper and a soft centre, in saying that there is still time for another 200million and 4 new players to come in.
We did the same when Klopp arrived; sorted three attack with Bobby, Mane & Salah and tried to organise the opposition. The defence and keeper were last.
It's not that I haven't got faith in Klopp to do well with the resources he has, I just feel that we'll have to ride our luck with injuries once again this season if we're to have any successes. I also think that many of our performances last season were flat from January onwards - although this might be due to a lack of 'close' challengers which might have taken the edge off us mentally. Squads have to keep evolving else they stagnate or age. Our squad has largely remained the same for two seasons now... CB is a must as Koumetio or Van den berg aren't ready yet. We have no real rotation option as a wide forward. Origi/Ox/Minamino are not wide players and it really breaks down our style of play when they're put there. I'm glad LB is finally solved but we've been incredibly lucky that Robbo didn't pick up anything serious the last few seasons. FSG are tight. They're primarily businessmen afterall, not football fans. They have reinvested money well and increased income, but they haven't actually invested much themselves - even just 20/30mill a season to plug a gap. I'd still rather have them than countries or oligarchs though.
Agree CB is a big priority. We’ve actually decent cover at FB now...or at least I hope we do....we didn’t have that at the start of last season... would love Thiago but not at the expense of Gini and I agree that we lack wide options beyond Mane and Salah. Wilson, Shaq, Origi are very different players. Will be watching Elliott more closely this season.
Ive said before, I wonder if they are looking at our fortunes and going the same way. There's a big difference in finishing 4th playing poor football and finishing 4th having a roller coaster season.
They're taking it a bit far though with Pulisic , Werner , Ziyech , Abraham , Giroud , Hudson - Odoi , Mount , Havertz , Batuashi . and i'm not even sure i've remembered them all
TBF, none of them are good enough (yet in some cases) for a title challenging team. We're yet to see how three of the remaining four cope in the PL too
Maybe they are going to give us all a shock and pray a new formation. 3-2-5 **** defence of completely
