01 Jun 2021 09:06:50
Imo if we don’t sign another top quality CM this summer it will be as big a mistake as not signing a CB last year.

As good as Fab, Thiago and Hendo will be for us and is arguably the best midfield 3 in the league, all 3 will be out injured at some point next season. I am happy with Jones/ Ox or even Bobby filling in the more advanced role for a few weeks but we have no one to play at the base of midfield .

An untimely injury to Fabinho/ Hendo or both could derail our season completely and is not a risk worth taking. We need to be capitalising on the fact we have such a strong squad and be winning the league another couple of times before it’s time for the inevitable rebuild.


1.) 01 Jun 2021
01 Jun 2021 09:19:03
OP, you posted this very same thing a couple of days ago. Take a chill pill. The season just ended and we are in for midfielders already. Relax and enjoy the sunshine, bro. Peace and Love.


2.) 01 Jun 2021
01 Jun 2021 09:27:21
Ed 002 says he thinks we will sign a midfielder so that’s good enough for me. It’s now just a case of choosing the correct players and selling before we can buy.


3.) 01 Jun 2021
01 Jun 2021 10:13:13
Bissouma ideal signing. Can cover the hendo and fab roles when and if needed. And if both are out simultaneously thiago plays the hendo role bissouma in the 6 and Jones/ ox in the advanced.

If you want to push and go what if more of them get injured at the same time, well you can't really prepare for all of your team being simultaneously injured. If it happens you just have to say bad luck and work with some what of a makeshift team.


4.) 01 Jun 2021
01 Jun 2021 10:15:36
I said yesterday that I think Thiago, Hendo and Fab will be a great midfield but between the 3 of them they missed 41 league games this season.
Ox and Naby missed 51 league games.
Wijnaldum featured in all 38 league games and Jones 24. More than happy to see Jones get more game time next season but who then replaces Jones game time and so on.
A solution I suppose is a formation change where we might see Jota, Bobby, Mo and Mane play as a 4 so it actually only requires 2 midfielders thus allowing a midfielder to drop out be it rotation etc.


5.) 01 Jun 2021
01 Jun 2021 10:58:12
We don't need to sign a CM. It will not be a mistake. You can't plan for freak injury situations.


6.) 01 Jun 2021
01 Jun 2021 13:32:24
PakRed, the drop off in quality from our first choice midfielders to the second choices is alarming, ti say ‘you can’t plan for freak injury situations’ is slightly disingenuous, as evidently a fourth centre back signing last summer may have taken the pressure off of us when VVD, Gomez and Matip all fell, so signing at least one quality centre midfielder may help us rotate the first choice players so they don’t get fatigue and also cover us in event if injury.


7.) 01 Jun 2021
01 Jun 2021 18:40:15
VVVV, no it would not have, IMO. A new CB would have been 4th choice hence, the drop off would have been massive as well hence, we would have been in the same mud either way esp since he would be targeted by the opposition on a weekly basis, just like Kabak and Williams were before they got it together.

Furthermore, said CB would have had to play every game hence, vulnerable to injury and we would have still had issues either. Had that happened, how would that have helped, exactly. Repeating the same old, tired rhetoric that a 4th choice CB would have done this or that is just fantasy. We got done by injuries at a specific position. That is it and no amount of rewriting history will change that.