Dusty

Ward Amartey Morgan Soy Justin Hamza Praet Youri Albrighton Perez Barnes If benkovic is fit i’d give him a run out for 30 mins and take off Soy. I’m not confident that chilwell is fit for Saturday so I’d rest Fuchs so that he keeps fit. I’d keep youri and praet so that they can have more time to get on form. I’d start Pérez up top to give him a chance to score and get his confidence up. I’d take Barnes off at 60 for Gray to keep him fit for the weekend and to give Gray a chance to prove himself this season.

Although I agree that Pérez has been poor thus far, I think the system is very different to what he’s used to. Last year he was playing off Rondon very well and vardy is the complete opposite player. We need Maddison in the 10 for him to play off and I think he’ll do much better. Same with tielemans too, he needs Maddison in front of him to play off successfully. I’d drop praet for barnes, play a 4231 with Hamza and Youri as the 2 and Maddison in at 10.

Anybody else watching this thinking we need a new keeper? Bravo’s composure and distribution is what we need from Kasper. City pass it out so well from the back and it all comes from their keepers calmness. Kaspers distribution against Atalanta was pretty poor. Not suggesting we sign Bravo FYI.

My view of Soyoncu’s game seems to be very different to everybody else’s. Positives first. He got forward well and his movement further up was good, couple of misplaced passes, but nothing major. But I thought his defence performance was pretty woeful. Gave away numerous free kicks and always seemed to be chasing the forwards as they’d always got passed him. His positioning is not good enough. Even at the end there was that lobbed pass that he completely misjudged and the player was in. Similar example with Rotherham, poor positioning and had to dive in, he missed and the player scored. I hope he’ll come good and that it’s just a confidence issue but I really didn’t feel like he was good enough. I know I may be in the minority on this one.

King £1-2m, James £1-2m, Ghezzal £6m, Diabate £2-4m, Kaputska £2-4m, Kelechi £10-15m, Slimani £5m, Gray £10-15m. Total: £39-£53m. I admit we’d never get £53m for all of them but I don’t think most of those prices are far off possible. Add that onto the transfer budget that we’d already have (probably around £60m) and I think we’d have enough. Dont get me wrong, I see the advantages that selling maguire could bring, but to me it gives a bad impression for the rest of the players, plus there’s no proof that the money from his sale would be used successfully.

I don’t know if I agree with this, I don’t think we’re in a position where we need to sell big in order to improve our squad. Selling Harry could disrupt the squad, there’s no guarantee that the replacement will be better and it’s signals to our other important players that we’re happy to sell. I think if we offload several fringe players we could make £20m-£30m and along with our current budget we’d be able to comply with FFP and still make some big signings.

I personally don’t see the point in selling him. It would generate very little money, as most prem teams wouldn’t want him and the foreign teams who would be after him can’t afford much. He’s probably more comfortable being towards the back of the pecking order than a new signing would be, and there’s no guarantee that a new signing would perform any better. He’s capable of coming on as a sub and keeping the ball and making a couple of tackles which is fine. And he seems to have some good relationships with the squad. Him and Ricardo appear to be very good friends on social media and selling him might upset him a bit and good morale is vital for performing well. I wouldn’t be that annoyed if he left, I just personally don’t see the need to sell someone and sign a replacement who’ll be 4 or 5th choice.

We might be more financially restricted than we think. The training facility is obviously very expensive and taking a lot of funds. It’s also our first summer without vichai, and as much as I think Top will be fine, he might be cautious spending large amounts given how unsuccessful lots of our other big money signings have been. Just a thought more than anything.

Anyone for Jack Grealish? I know he’d probably cost a lot for a championship player, but if we sell ghezzal, kaputska and gray/diabate that will fund some of it. But he’s comfortable playing as a 10 or an 8 and he can play out wide, he’s had a very good season for villa and he’s friends with a few of the lads in the squad. Personally think we then only need to sign a back up striker and a LB and we should be set for the season.

But Morgan’s not up to the standard anymore, Evans already in his 30’s and soyuncu has been far from convincing imo (I believe he will be a decent player, but don’t have the confidence that he can play regularly and be successful next season)

CM: Tielemans for definite, then one of: cyprien, mooy, grealish, eze & sangare Winger: Kalu, Thuram or Watkins Striker: Mitrovic and Adams If chilly leaves Tierney is an obvious replacement. If Maguire leaves, could go for Tarkowski?

I don’t think Ben arfa would be a good signing at all, he hasn’t played a game all season and he struggled with fitness at the best of times. Would be a waste imo

forgot about ricardo perieria too 4231 ks perieria drago maguire chilwell ndidi silva Gray/albrighton/ diabate hazard Vardy subs: hamer morgan (lascalles) Simpson rondon iheanacho iborra (whenever winger didn’t start)

can see a lot of players leaving: mahrez, slimani, musa, ulloa, huth, fuchs. ins: dragovic (and maybe lascalles) thorgan hazard saint-maximin rondon (maybe ward-prowse but I feel like he offers very little besides set pieces and crossing)