I may get crushed for this, but I still feel like we're a year away atm and we could use selling Salah as the spring board for a big reload. If you get $150mil for a guy on one year left and he's 32 you would be silly not to take it. Use that money similarly to when Couthinho left and you're ready ro contend on all fronts next season. We just seem to lack and fluidity this season and I think that we are probably a bit lucky to be where we are atm. Sure the Spurs game went against us, but these late wins probably flatter us a bit.
I still think we push Arsenal and City and I think we have a legit chance of winning multiple cup competitions. Just think we need to level up one more rung, and cash flow from an against Salah could help us do that....
We finished like outside of the cl and have made massive strides
I think only the die hard hopers thought we could win or fight all the way.
A lot thought we would be fighting for 4th but we have done better and could now fight for the title
It’s obvious we are missing quality, I will say it again, we need to improve our depth a little
Jones for example is way way out of his depth, should be loaned out and see if he can start for a mid table team and kick on imo
We need a cm in jan who can play in likely or a rb and move Trent into midfield but without a pre season in that position, I can see why the boss wouldn’t do it in jan
We were missing players to run down the by line yesterday, It was obvious but we didn’t have the capability to do that really
Now onto salah, the problem you have is he is still a top 10 player in the world and his numbers are mad. If we get that 150m, heck say we get 250m, not that we will but say we do
We can end up buying players a couple of levels below, let’s be honest, Nunez, 80m, he has been quite frankly a poor buy right now, a really poor buy. Yes we all love him but he is as bad as Antony at United in terms of poor buys so far and that is our big issue right now
Diaz hasn’t been the same since injury, so are we going to be able to buy someone who can do what Salah does ?
I say keep him for a year, make our midfield solid and then take it from there the year after. Saudi will always give 100-150m for him. Salah gets a lot of hate when he is the only attacker delivering
Without Salah this season, we would be where United are in the league
Edit, I think Thiago is a big miss, he would be so good in a game like yesterday. We really need to get rid in jan if we can and then bring in a dm who can give us another option to control games and pick better passes. I really hope Mac is back for Arsenal, we will be overrun and destroyed in midfield if he isn’t