Speculation Starting lineup and formation for the new season

City Fan

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2018

• #81

Miles Away said:

I think that’s a fair appraisal, though I’m not fully convinced about Evans who struggled in spells last year.

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I’d agree with that. An absolute snip at £3m for sure, but he didn’t exactly cover himself with glory in a relegated team (unlike Maguire the season before). In fact, WBA started winning games after they dropped him.

Will be interesting to see how he gets on being alongside a decent centre back and in front of a decent goalkeeper. Hopefully last season was just a blip for the lad.

 

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sparky79

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #82

i think its clear we will be 4231. Looking at the squad we look like we can only aupport a formation that has 1 striker. If we can only name a squad of 25 for the Premier League it looks like:

GK: Schmeichel, Ward (£12.5m) Jakupovic

FB: Ricardo (£22m), Amartey, Fuchs, Chilwell
CB: Maguire, Morgan, Evans (£3.5m), Johnson, Soyuncu (£19m), Benkovic (£13m)
CM: Choudhury, Iborra, Silva, Ndidi, Maddison (£24m)
LM/RM: Albrighton, Gray, Diabate, Ghezzal (£12.5m)
CF: Vardy, Iheanacho, Okazaki

Total spend: £107.5m

not in squad: King, James, Simpson, Knight, Sam Hughes, Ndukwu, Elder (the latter four are unlucky not to get into the 25 given how good our u23s are)

Sold/Loaned: Mahrez (£60m), Musa(£12m), Ulloa (tbc), Slimani (loan fee tbc), Gordon

Est Sold Total: £75m

Net spend £32.5m

Not the biggest investment all told but Puel at least cleaning up a lot of the squad issues and hopefully uniting the squad behind the efforts for the season.

if we are unlucky with injuries I think we could rue not having another striker.

 

Jeff

Administrator

Staff member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #83

sparky79 said:

If we can only name a squad of 25 for the Premier League it looks like:

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The 25 man squad is for players born before 1st January 1997. We can use as many players born since then as we like.

See this thread for the list of players who could be in the 25 man squad: https://talkingballs.uk/index.php?threads/25-man-squad.39471/

 

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Miles Away

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #84

Our best looking side in my opinion.

Kasper

Maguire Young Turk Evans

Pereira Chilwell

Ndidi Maddison Silva

Nacho Vardy

 

Micky

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #85

I heard a rumour that Layton Ndukwu was going to get a number.

 

City Fan

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #86

Miles Away said:

Our best looking side in my opinion.

Kasper

Maguire Young Turk Evans

Pereira Chilwell

Ndidi Maddison Silva

Nacho Vardy

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Hadn’t realised we had signed Ashley Young. Also, not sure why you’d play him at centre back, and we’d struggle to get away with having 12 players in the team I reckon.

 

camberwell fox

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #87

City Fan said:

Hadn’t realised we had signed Ashley Young. Also, not sure why you’d play him at centre back, and we’d struggle to get away with having 12 players in the team I reckon.

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camberwell fox

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #88

City Fan said:

Hadn’t realised we had signed Ashley Young. Also, not sure why you’d play him at centre back, and we’d struggle to get away with having 12 players in the team I reckon.

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You and your ****ing facts.

 

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frankw

Active Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #89

I predict that by the end of September, we will be playing 3-5-2.

Kasper
Benkovic Maguire Soyuncu
Pereira N'Didi Maddison Johnson Chilwell
Vardy Iheanacho

Take out Kasper and Vardy, we would have an average age of about 22.

The future is blue, the future is great.

 

Jeff

Administrator

Staff member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #90

frankw said:

I predict that by the end of September, we will be playing 3-5-2.

Kasper
Benkovic Maguire Soyuncu
Pereira N'Didi Maddison Johnson Chilwell
Vardy Iheanacho

Take out Kasper and Vardy, we would have an average age of about 22.

The future is blue, the future is great.

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So you'd put a young centre back / right back in midfield?
I don't think even Puel would do that.

 

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Miles Away

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #91

I suppose I’ll point out “Young Turk” is one player and refers to our 22 year old Turkish defender whose name I’ve not yet committed to memory.

 

Jeff

Administrator

Staff member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #92

Miles Away said:

I suppose I’ll point out “Young Turk” is one player and refers to our 22 year old Turkish defender whose name I’ve not yet committed to memory.

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I'm pretty sure even the dimmest people on here worked that out.

 

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frankw

Active Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #93

I would put Johnson in as a defensive mid-fielder to go with N'Didi. He is fast and can defend, but also likes to attack. I see that as his future position

 

Skitzo

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #94

frankw said:

I would put Johnson in as a defensive mid-fielder to go with N'Didi. He is fast and can defend, but also likes to attack. I see that as his future position

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Or you could use an actual midfielder there

 

City Fan

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #95

Christ almighty.

I’m a firm believer that we are lacking quality in central midfield, but suggesting putting some kid in who has never played a Premier League game, and in the wrong position is a whole new level.

Actually, I guess it did work well for Harry Worley...

 

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Miles Away

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #96

Jeff said:

I'm pretty sure even the dimmest people on here worked that out.

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Even the ones playing Johnson in central midfield?

 

Blue Maniac

Alzheimers sufferer

• Aug 9, 2018

• #97

Henderson
Chambers
N’Gotty
McAuley
Mattock
Newton
Kishishev
Wesolowski
Clemence
Hume
De Vries

 

Graz

Well-Known Member

• Aug 9, 2018

• #98

Miles Away said:

Our best looking side in my opinion.

Kasper

Maguire Young Turk Evans

Pereira Chilwell

Ndidi Maddison Silva

Nacho Vardy

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I completely agree. I'm hoping we'll see this at some point this season - I don't think we will for the first couple of weeks though.

 

londonfox

Well-Known Member

• Aug 10, 2018

• #99

Miles Away said:

Even the ones playing Johnson in central midfield?

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Some people are beyond hope

 

bocadillo

Water Gypsy

• Aug 10, 2018

• #100

Micky said:

I heard a rumour that Layton Ndukwu was going to get a number.

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As is likely for several or more players born on or after 1st January 1997.