23 Feb 2019 10:34:21
If we can get this transfer ban put back to January and could sign 4 or 5 top tier players who would everyone like to see brought in? We already have Pulisic joining and if Hazard leaves we need a top class winger to replace preferable left footed like Pepe and shift Callum to the left because if we play Callum he won't leave. These are the players I'd like to see us target.

Top class CB - Koulibaly/ Romagnoli

Luiz should be offloaded. Rudiger 3rd choice and Christensen should always start IMO. He's positionally our best CB by far. He just needs a more physical leader next to him.

LB - Mendy/ Chilwell

Either of these is be over the moon with. Sell Alonso and maybe even Emerson I'd like to see Jay Da Silva back.

A creative CM - Aouar

Kovacic and Barkley ain't the answer at LCM. Aouar is unreal him and RLC could rotate. Kovacic is better deeper but he isn't a 50m pound player. Our budget is betttef spent elsewhere I'd rather Ampadu given a run if needs be.

A young ST - Jovic

Abraham should return as back up unless Higuain stays. Jovic looks quality and hungry and is very complete for his age.

That's 4 top class players that would cost around 250-300m. We have plenty of players we could raise them fees alone for. For example these would be my outgoings hopefully permanent and realistic fees:

Morata - 40m
Giroud - 10m
Batshuayi - 20m
Bakayoko - 30m (Milan love him)
Barkley - 15m
Kenedy - 10m
Willian - 30m
Drinkwater - 10m
Van Ginkel - 15m
Moses - 10m
Musonda Jnr - 10m
Baba - 5m
Alonso - 10m
Emerson - 20m
Luiz - 10m
Zappacosta - 10m
Zouma - 20m (Don't rate him)
Azpilicueta - 20m (Upset a few not not a RB)

= 295m

Getting them realistic fees for them players and finally get rid could be used for 4 quality players. That's without 100m if Hazard leaves. We also have the likes of Kalas, Kane, Omeruo, Pasalic and Baker who need offloading for good.

James, Aina, Jay Da Silva, Tomori and Abraham should all return as squad options.

1.) 23 Feb 2019
23 Feb 2019 11:14:48
I'd go with Jovic, Wan Bissaka, Auoar/ Ndombele/ Milinkovic Savic/ Barella and if Eden, Willian or Pedro were to leave, I'd add Fekir og Pepe to that list.

2.) 23 Feb 2019
23 Feb 2019 11:29:08
Those fees are atrocious and we aren't going to sell 17 senior players in one window, regardless of a transfer ban. Turn off FIFA.

3.) 23 Feb 2019
23 Feb 2019 13:57:17
This wouldn’t even happen on FIFA 19.

4.) 23 Feb 2019
23 Feb 2019 19:21:59
Luiz Giroud are out of contract this summer and if Sarri stays he’s already said a winger would need to go before Cho gets more game time that’s even before Pulisic arrives, although I don’t think he’s interested in intergrating the youth, supposedly he’s not watched any youth matches.

5.) 23 Feb 2019
23 Feb 2019 21:01:08
Why are they atrocious? They’re all about right?

6.) 23 Feb 2019
23 Feb 2019 21:55:03
Drinkwater luiz barkley Pedro willian Alonso Zappa
Bakyoko morata Moses Giroud Zouma michy - out
Higuain ( loan option ) Jovic / icardi ( Jovic more likely ) ndombele Chilwell militiao / Marquinhos Pepe fekir - IN

Ideally in a dream world I’d love
Kepa
Chilwell Marquinhos rudiger Azpi
Kante ndombele
Hazard fekir Pepe
Jovic
subs :
Cho Christensen Pulisic Higuain Emerson RLC jorginho, bulka

Reece James, Mount, Abraham, daSilva, palisic a premier league loan if possible
This like mentioned is a huge overhaul and would take a good few windows, something we apparently don’t have.

7.) 24 Feb 2019
24 Feb 2019 02:13:59
Giroud and Luiz's contract is up at the end of the season and we're not renewing Girouds and hopefully not with Luiz's either. Azpi and Alonso just signed new contracts and eventhough i want them replaced i can't see them being sold. Atletico have an option to buy on Morata which i don't think they'll take. Nobody will be silly enough to spend money on Drinkwater because of his wages, he'll just go out on loans. The rest are possible but i wouldn't expect much of them to happen. Think the only players we'll really make money with if we decided to sell are Zappacosta, Zouma, Bakayoko, Barkley, Willian, Batshuayi and Kennedy. We'll be lucky to get over £120m out of that. But add that with our "rumoured" £200m transfer budget, as long as we don't spend any money on squad fillers we'll be able to bring in 3-5 really good additions. Agree with your targets though, maybe a Fekir if we couldn't get Aouar but i'd be very happy if we got those players in.

8.) 24 Feb 2019
24 Feb 2019 02:37:11
Your valuation of Barkley, Emerson, Alonso is quite low.

9.) 24 Feb 2019
24 Feb 2019 20:00:40
I don’t want to get into the money side of things but I think this summer, so long as we are able to sign players during an appeal, we’ll see something like this.

OUTS – Green, Zappacosta, Luiz, Cahill, Emerson, Baba, Bakayoko, Drinkwater, Moses, Kenedy, Kovacic, (at least one of) Pedro/ Willian, Batshuayi, and (at least one of) Higuain/ Giroud.

LOAN RETURNS TO FIRST TEAM SQUAD – Clarke-Salter, James, Mount, Pulisic and Abraham.

INS – Chilwell and Icardi

That would leave us with something like this.

Kepa, Caballero, Random Old GK

Azpilicueta, James, Rudiger, Christensen, Ampadu, Clarke-Salter, Chilwell, Alonso

Kante, Jorginho, Loftus-Cheek, Barkley, Mount

Hudson-Odoi, Pedro/ Willian, Pulisic, Hazard

Icardi, Higuain/ Giroud and Abraham.