Coufal is hardly injury prone, but has Johnson and Ashby backing him up.Hamburger wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:42 am Come on Bubbs, you're a good poster, you know the situation
Cresswell and Coufal are injury prone, Oggy, Fabianski & Dawson getting past it, so all of those will need a decent back up or even replacing. Oh wait sorry, we don't do back ups we only do upgrades. So with Nobes, Fredericks, Yarmolenko, and maybe Fredericks, Masuaku, Diop, Kral & Areola on their bikes plus 2 strikers, I make that 15 potentially needed throughout next season. Like I said it will probably end up being 7 or 8 FIRST team players required because 'we only do upgrades not back ups'. And because we only do upgrades not back ups, we can't play any of the U23s. Utter nonsense.
Cresswell has Masuaku and Johnson. Not ideal, but not desperate.
Ogbonna, Fabianski and Dawson are back up, a new CB plays alongside Zouma and Areola is permanent.
Noble is replaced by Kral or another, Fredericks by Ashby from within, Diop by a new CB, Areola stays, Yarmolenko replaced by Lingard or a new signing.
A new striker pushes Antonio onto the bench (why on Earth would we need two?)
In an ideal world we'd sign upgrades everywhere, we can't afford that.
Areola/Fabianski
Coufal CB Zouma Cresswell
Soucek Rice
Bowen Fornals Lingard
Striker
Fabianski, Johnson, Ogbonna, Dawson, Kral, Benrahma, Antonio, Ashby, Masuaku
Is probably something close to our general match day 18.