30 Apr 2019 17:32:31
If reports are to be believed and we are going to look to primarily British players this summer, who would you say fits the bill for what we need? My thoughts are :

Tierney, Wan-Bissaka, Trippier, Maguire, Chilwell, Rice, Maddison and Sancho are the names that spring to mind.

All would vastly improve aspects of our team.

1.) 30 Apr 2019
30 Apr 2019 18:27:12
I rather have Dalot then Trippier and would rather go with Smalling ang give games to Tuanzebe then Maguire.

The r3sr of the players you suggest3d are fine but won't go anywhere near Maguire or Trippier.

2.) 30 Apr 2019
30 Apr 2019 18:53:06
This new found focus on british players strikes me as backward thinking, as if the club have said we have signed 30 players post fergies and 90% of them haven't been successful.

What do they have in common apart from luke shaw and the one and only lee grant? They are all foreign, that's the problem. Its not because they are poor individual players who we generally overpaid. Or because we have gone from extreme to extreme when it comes to manager meaning some of those signings don't fit in with the different regimes.

More players with the same nationality as phil jones and chris smalling aka the chuckle brothers. that's what we need.

3.) 30 Apr 2019
30 Apr 2019 19:21:33
There's probably an emphasis on homegrown players because we'll potentially be losing several within the next two summer windows. Jones, Smalling, Young, Pogba and Pereira all likely to be elsewhere. Wan Bissaka and Sancho would revitalise our right hand side and them being homegrown would be an added bonus.

4.) 30 Apr 2019
30 Apr 2019 19:22:01
I’d also rather have Dalot than Trippier and I’m not a fan of Maguire. Maddison looks promising but he’s not a regular at Leicester yet so I’m not convinced. Wan-Bissaka and Rice are the only 2 I would take.

5.) 30 Apr 2019
30 Apr 2019 21:03:55
Maddison is quality, I’d take him in a heartbeat. AWB is without doubt one of the two outstanding RB in the prem the other being Alexander Arnold and i can’t see us getting him.

6.) 30 Apr 2019
30 Apr 2019 22:17:44
Tony, Maddison has started 33 EPL games for Leicester this season, and been a sub in one. I think that qualifies his as a first team regular.

I wouldn't want Maguire, if we were looking for a British CB then I would take Micheal Keane over Maguire.

Wan-Bissaka, Rice, Maddison and Sancho are all excellent young British players. All bar Sancho could be achievable without UCL qualification this summer.

That is something we have to consider now. With us now unlikely to get UCL qualification for next season we will likely have to adjust our targets somewhat. We should still push for the top players, but players like Saul, NDombele and Sancho ect will all have the option of staying at a UCL team or move to another UCL team. It will take some convincing to get them to sign for a side in the Europa League.

7.) 01 May 2019
01 May 2019 22:36:09
I agree shappy but its something ed002 has said can make little difference sometimes.
I do understand the need for youth pace and hunger. But we also need a couple of experienced pros.
Trippier is a really good option and at 28 won't block dalot. Its someone who dalot can learn plenty from and is hungry for medals @ 30m rumoured it ticks a lot of boxes sort and long term.
Same in reverse on the other side tierny would be an ideal investment to compete and back up shaw.
Is rice much better than mctom? Although i think mctom could develop into a box to box so in hindsight perhaps they could play in the same midfield.
Sancho looks better every time i see him. I think he will be a top player he will stay at BD i suspect.
Maddison looks luke a really good player. Noucamp got me watching him a few months ago and he has something special i think.
Trippier tierny rice maddison sancho is 250m before you even look at a cb and say 50m and another midfielder people mention neves saul lyon lad, tielmans etc so that's another 50-80m
I know that is the sort of investment and turnaround we would all like to see but all that's not possible or practical.
Best part of 400m notwithstanding if we sold pogba lukaku and sanchez along with jones rojo darmian ( must be 200m plus there) and release mata herrera valencia and young we could get our wage bill under control again.
Its a 4 window job to fix this mess.