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Originally Posted By Darcus
Most of them should be kept, but only as backup. Unless you're one of the richest clubs on the planet, you cannot really have top quality in reserve - the players above would make a decent subs bench though (except for karius and moreno.)

To sell all of the above and replace them with better would cost WAY too much money. If you asked which ones should be in the 1st team next season, that's easy....none of them (although Lovren seems be learning a lot from Virgil)


true. Still some of those guys especially those on large wages should go. e.g sturridge, mignolet. ings markovic aren't even good enough for the bench

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I'd keep Mignolet as backup to 'someone'. If our improved defence has managed to con some fans into thinking Karius is ok, then imagine how it could make Mignolet look!! Also, he's second to none on penalty saves.

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Originally Posted By Red_Ascent
Still exposed our lack of qual both in attack and MF ?


Yes it exposed our lack of quality in depth, we rode our luck since Coutinho left with the front 3, we knew a major injury to one of them would drop us in it, unfortunately that happened in the CL final, we also lost Ox, who could have been cover for 1 of the front 3.

MF is more understandable, we had decent strength but got crippled by bad injuries at bad times which took out some of our top MF like Lallana/Ox/Can - that's £100 million worth of players gone.

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Originally Posted By Darcus
Most of them should be kept, but only as backup. Unless you're one of the richest clubs on the planet, you cannot really have top quality in reserve - the players above would make a decent subs bench though (except for karius and moreno.)

To sell all of the above and replace them with better would cost WAY too much money. If you asked which ones should be in the 1st team next season, that's easy....none of them (although Lovren seems be learning a lot from Virgil)


We've got the amazing front three, top class Virgil van Dijk and some hugely-improved players such as Robertson, Lovren, TAA, Milner, Hendo. Also add Keita and Fabinho and we look to have a good midfield.


But the difference between these players and our substitutes is huge. We sell Coutinho for a huge amount of money we at least deserve a better first choice attacking substitute than Solanke no disrespect to him.

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Still exposed our lack of qual both in attack and MF ?


Yes it exposed our lack of quality in depth, we rode our luck since Coutinho left with the front 3, we knew a major injury to one of them would drop us in it, unfortunately that happened in the CL final, we also lost Ox, who could have been cover for 1 of the front 3.

MF is more understandable, we had decent strength but got crippled by bad injuries at bad times which took out some of our top MF like Lallana/Ox/Can - that's £100 million worth of players gone.


You forgot hendo was out some time too. 45 days including dec to jan !


But when Henderson was out we had plenty of cover in MF, I was talking about the MF players we had available for the final, every team has 1 or 2 players out in DF/MF/ATT at any 1 point usually, to lose 4 or more first teamers in a position at any 1 period of time is unusual and would weaken any team.

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