I would. I feel we just have a collective mental mediocrity that we are going to struggle to shift otherwise.
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I'd settle for players that can actually complete a 5 yard pass......Yes. Need more intelligent and commited players.
We are one Adama Traore away. He is the saviour!Part of me says yes, and part of me says we are oneEriksen and Dembeleaway from being a real top 4 contender
Seeing that list of shit players ids devastating. It’s spot on sadly.The level we're aiming for is top 4 really. Of our squad, who is honestly of that standard? Players top 4 sides would take?
Lloris, Romero, Son, Kane..
Then maybe there's a case for a bunch of players being worth having in the squad like;
Dier, Reguilon, Skipp, Lucas..
Then there's the list of players that probably just aren't up to it and never will be;
Gollini, Emerson, Doherty, Sessegnon, Sanchez, Tanganga, Rodon, Davies, Winks, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Hojbjerg, Bergwijn, Gill, Dele..
For me that's 15 players, over half our squad, that aren't at the required standard we want to be at.
The only thing we have going in our favour is how shit United have been, and that Woolwich, West Ham and Leicester are equally unconvincing.
Thats a depressingly long list but I pretty much agree with all of them for one reason or another (injury proneness, form, suitability to the Conte system, mentality, fitness) except perhaps Gil as hes barely had a chance to show anything. As much as I like Tanganga and Rodon they seem to have gone backwards. Davies is OK but isnt the future, and the rest have all shown they cannot be relied on after multiple chances to do soThen there's the list of players that probably just aren't up to it and never will be;
Gollini, Emerson, Doherty, Sessegnon, Sanchez, Tanganga, Rodon, Davies, Winks, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Hojbjerg, Bergwijn, Gill, Dele..
For me that's 15 players, over half our squad, that aren't at the required standard we want to be at.
I said 18 months ago we should sell Kane and Son and use the windfall to completely retool the club, similar to post-Bale and post-AVB. This era has been over since Madrid.It's not a practical solution, I agree. But I think the idea and the responses show how big a rebuild we have on our hands. It's like a rotten ship and when you cut out all the rot there is so little left that you kida wonder if it would have been better to just build a new ship. We can't do that, it's not an option but it shows how bad things are. Is Conte really going to stay and complete the rebuild? I hope so but it is going to take four windows I think to get to where we need to be.