A Vieira Beautiful Future - Wild Dreams

I suppose, depends on what else we do in the window

 

How do you guys expect Emery to use Ceballos? Happy that it's just a 1 year loan because I think he'll end up being very, very good

 

I'll tell you next spring, on St Totteringham's Day

 

Does Emery still play with just a man 3 midfield? Ceballos has shown he can play box to box but is at his best in a slightly more advanced role.

 

He's our Ozil insurance. Hopefully a dual pivot with Guen & Torierra

 

We mostly played 3-5-2 because we had no wingers and our fullbacks can't defend but plan is to start the year with 4 man backline and we still have no wingers so 3-4 man midfield(if you count a 10 as a mid) will be happening a lot

He should get a lot of minutes though one of our most promising youths is pushing for playing time in that 8/10 role as well. Ozil doesn't play away games so that helps his cause.

 

So many bodies for a few roles, Mkhitaryan really needs to fuck off.

 

Dortmund love their old guys, would gladly loan him back to them

 

Your dumbass question elicited an appropriate answer

 

So are you happy with the loan or not?

 

Why would it solicit unhappiness?

 

Doing Madrid’s development for them while possibly stunting or delaying that of your own players/prospects; not having an option to buy leaves a hole in the midfield moving into next year if it’s a successful loan.

 

it’s top four or bust this year.

 

also one player on loan really isn’t going to make that big of a difference. there are plenty of minutes to go around and really only one young player in that spot that may have gotten them otherwise. he’ll still get plenty of chances to develop.

 

If they don’t place in the top 4, it’s curtains. They don’t have the ability to spend to fix the problems so they have to be creative. Not sure who’s growth will be stunted. Willock? He will still have plenty of opportunities

 

We need cheap fixes and Zidane doesn't like him, imagine if the spell is successful then have a chance to buy him unless he's crazy good

we're paying his wages and giving them a fee, this isn't Denis Suarez. This is the best player at U19 and U21 euros, he's really really fucking good in the right setup.

 

Owsley we also can't address all of our holes with our shoestring summer budget. It's our reality, a means to an end... top 4 or bust

 

Exactly... imagine we'd have right of 1st refusal, at a minimum

 

I’d imagine a lot of things would happen that inexplicably don’t with this club regarding the transfer market. Hopefully the new front office has its shit together but I’ll believe it when I see it.

 

so the Tierney deal is dead. I really hope there's a plan B at LB.

 

It sounds like his injury is not worth the money they're asking for .. and he may not be ready to start the season anyway as he isn't even running yet (both Holding and Bellerin are and they won't be available at the start of the season). I hope we go after Junior Firpo - we were linked with him last year but Barca may be interested in him.

 

Agreed and I’m honesty kinda relieved they are off Kierney. Always has seemed like he is a risk to miss a big chunk of this season potentially

 

I'm cool with not buying him, I just really hope there's a plan b. especially if we want to see a back four, which I think most of us do.

 

Love Firpo but think his next move will be to a bigger club than us right now. Doubt we could afford him either. Is the Tierney deal officially dead or just rumblings?

 

Allegedly supposedly possibly dead.

 

All I saw was Celtic’s manager saying there’s been no 3rd bid and he hopes they’ve done enough to keep him

 

Moving on from Tierney is a good sign

 

Supposedly the field is a wreck, fuck is wrong with Dan Snyder

 

A lot?

 

how much time you got, buddy

 

are the yellow number permanent?

 

We don't need a red in a friendly but was gonna laugh if the ref didn't give a yellow on that

 

It's a friendly but you gotta send this dude off

 

Nice buildup play by Xhaka in that

 

80% of missed penalty calamaties/fuck ups happen when the shooter pauses during his run up. Pick a corner, run up smoothly and hit it with pace. 99% success rate.

That said, good job Laca.

 

Yeah, I didn’t like them tbh

 

I’m not sure these numbers are accurate.

 

If that's a penalty, John Terry and Rio Ferdinand would have given up 40 penalties a year.

Fuck off, Stewart.