If only we were owned by a billionaire, ideally a British one so we could keep within HG rules
*sigh"
*sigh"
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Including Janssen Lamela and Moura we have 21 non HG players in CL rules.
2 will have to get squeezed out of last years seventeen to accommodate Moura and Lamela
So if we sign another non HG then we will have to lose 3 if including him
A minimum of two keepers.
8 spaces for club and association trained players 4 maximum of Association.
Last year
Goalkeepers Lloris, Vorm, Gazzaniga. Defenders Trippier*, Aurier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Sánchez, Foyth, Rose**, Davies. Midfielders Dier, Dembélé, Wanyama, Eriksen, Sissoko, Nkoudou. Forwards Kane**, Alli*, Son, Llorente
** club trained
* association trained
NB – Winks will be club trained this season, not unlimited U21
So we will have 3 places left for HG , 2 who can be association trained.
Note You can change 3 players if you reach KO stages, but you still can only have 17 non Hg players.
Well Janssen and N'Koudou can fuck off, neither one would ever play in the Champions League anyway.
But I guess the point is, adding home growns or u21's or any of the other categories doesn't really enter into it. The problem is that we're up against the cap of over age foreign-trained, a problem which is always going to be one spot more acute in the CL because Davies doesn't count.
A Grealish or Cook can walk into the squad without creating ADDITIONAL problems, but they wouldn't SOLVE any problems created by also signing another over age foreign trained player. If we sign a foreign guy, someone is getting squeezed out, in addition to whoever has gotten squeezed out by Sanchez aging into the senior squad.
Llorente and Sissoko. Sorted.
You are looking at it the wrong way round, the issue isn't the number of home grown players we can name, it's the number of foreign trained players we can't name.
Lloris, Vorm, Gazzaniga, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Sanchez, Aurier, Davies, Lamela, Wanyama, Dier, Sissoko, Dembele, Eriksen, Lucas Moura, Heung-min Son, Llorente, Janssen, N'Koudou
= 19, you can have max 17, add to that Foyth also doesn't count as home grown for CL
So if we sign someone without selling someone we have to leave 4 out
Gazzaniga is also an easy leave-off. No need for three keepers.
We paid a combined £30m for them, no way Levy will just say 'you can fuck off'
What we need is a young English club trained 3rd keeper... Too bad we don't have anyone like that.
Na it was a chippy called Mackay's. Seemed to be the busiest one. Just had another fish supper for lunch today in Seahouses. It was fucken top notch. Up there with the Anstruther supper. Now I'm lying on the beach at Bamburgh like a fucken whale surround by English folk drinking and building sand castles.
Enjoy Eyemouth. And don't worry about Kelso huns. I'm sure they're pussy cats when confronted by a cue ball in a sock. No voting British cunts that they are
Well, they're getting left off the Champions League squad either way, so they're pretty well irrelevant to this discussion. As is Gazzaniga.
Lloris, Vorm, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Sanchez, Foyth, Aurier, Davies, Lamela, Wanyama, Dier, Sissoko, Dembele, Eriksen, Moura, Son, Llorente
17 players for 17 spots. So if someone comes in, another must get squeezed out. If anyone is injured it's an easy decision. If CCV breaks into the squad then Foyth is an obvious choice. If we swap Toby for Martial then Llorente becomes an obvious choice.
It's a tricky situation, no question. But it's not some transfer-embargoing rubik's cube.
She's taken the dog out. Its either porn hub or TFC.
If we sign Grealish and Zaha we improve the first team and aren't forced to sell or loan anyone on the cheap.
Brandon Austin, Alfie Whiteman has been here 3 yrs just hasnt he
Has Austin got dual nationality or is he classed as Associaion trained (US)
Hey, makes perfect sense to me, let's go do it.
But even if we sign both of those players, we would still be in a squeeze to additionally sign a foreign player.
And of course this is all unrelated to what has everyone freaked out, which is selling from our jammed-up list of 17 and not replacing them at all.
That was only a boat. This is what I call a yacht:
How many N'koudous does that yatch worth?
Toby to United makes me feel sick. He’s a big upgrade for the cunts
Confirmed it just your primal fear
No but we’d need to meet Zaha wages which will be £6m per year.
We will have to sell or loan but there doesn’t seem to be much interest in Janssen, Nkoudo, Llorente. Dembele has rejected 2 moves, apparently.
Although Janssen is nowhere to be seen, hopefully somethings going on there.
Good movie. Ed Norton always showed talent.