We are struggling with goals. When in form, he is a creative force plus can score as well. Worth a shot even if just for this season
Reviving anyone should have been done by now. The team is at crunch time. Last he played he looked like shit. He's too injured. I rather jovic plays. At least he doesn't break so often...
As I said in the summer we desperately need a right winger who scores a lot. Evry top team has scoring wingers. Except us.
Since Hazard got injured and it's reported that he will miss the rest of the season, i wonder if we should ask La Liga to allow us to sign one player?
I agree we should use all the resources available to us to try to win titles this season not just right both left and right, these are the guys plus our 9 who should be scoring, not all, but the bulk of our goals, if we had that on a regular basis for awhile now maybe some wouldn’t be calling for Toni and Luka to score 10 goals each from the CM position, thus the call for Pogba but even he has only gotten over 7 or so goals once I think
I’m not one of those fans who wants 10 departures and 10 signings every season, it’s real life not pro evo, so I don’t say this lightly. But no matter how we end the season we need to sell some players who have outlasted their usefulness. James: injury prone and doesn’t have a real position. We can actually get some money for him. Bale: Retired already. Getting his massive wages off the books will be a HUGE win. Marcelo: Love him but he’s unplayable now. Even against Copa teams. Sell to Italy. Thank you for you service. Isco: No real usefulness and cannot be relied upon for a full season. 1 good game in 15 isn’t ok. Mariano: no impact. Just taking up a roster spot and wages. Loan or sell. Benzema: I still think he is useful but my reason for selling is that if he’s here no other striker will get a fair run. This looks impossible though as we just extended him a year. If Zizou actually makes him a backup he is a great player to have around even at his high wages. Asensio: Loan so he can play everyday to regain his form and then re-assess. Make sure to add a early call back provision. Rodrygo: Loan to La Liga side. Modric: sell if adequate replacement is available if not keep for another season but I,d rather not considering his minutes will need to be reduced more. Time to invest time into whoever will replace him rather drag this out. I know we can’t do all of that but we should. We can’t keeping dragging the corpse of a squad that peaked 3 years ago. Wish we could refresh on the fly but we haven’t been able to and our big signing is a bust so far. We revert back to more or less the same issues every season. There’s good players to be had out there and I honestly couldn’t care less about the finances. The club is a money making machine and we have smart people in charge. Let’s build the next team. We are up against a Barcelona who are in shambles and fired a manager mid season and are fighting each other and have been ravaged with injuries and we are still on track to lose the league to them. It’s not hyperbole to say, that’s shameful.
^ I’m onboard with a lot of this but also think some of those departures are unlikely (Benz, Isco maybe Asensio). The Brazilians (including Reinier) and Brahmin are interesting as we have to loan at least two of them I would think just because of EU slots, plus Kubo again. You’d think we’d keep Vini as long as he plays well the remainder of the season. Rodrygo is tough because he seems more polished than Vini but maybe not direct enough yet. Right wing spot has to be addressed this summer. There is no way Hazard is getting sold so LW would be Hazard and Vinicus, or maybe Hazard moves to the middle to do what Isco is currently doing if he leaves.
Good points, think I’d keep Rodrygo, and for me Mariano just hasn’t been given any kind of a chance which is unfortunate, so I’d say that’s the reason for him having no impact, that’s more on ZZ than on him, he can go though and definitely will if ZZ remains, finally ..........I don’t think we are on track to lose the league to Farca, not just yet, far too early for me to think like that, but, that’s just me, I respect your opinion though.
I agree with some points here, we needed changes last year but it seems we just revert to the same team as before. Kroos, Casemiro, Fede should be our 3 mids Modric should play far less games. Benzema should be our back up striker. Marcelo should have gone last year once Solari benched him. Isco i am unsure with still? Is it worth keeping him as a back up number 10.
Vin - Haaland - Mbappe Valverde - Odegaard Camavinga Mendy - X - Militao - Hakimi T-Bow OUT: Modrić, Isco, James, Marcelo, Jović *, Odriozola, Bale, Mariano, Benzema?, Nacho, Hazard OUT - LOAN: Jović*, Brahim, Kubo, etc.. IN: Mbappe, Haaland, Camavinga, CB IN - from loan / buyback: Hakimi, Odegaard, Reguilon