Five more sleeps… maybe more, maybe less but the transfer window will be open or will have been opened for a few hours a week from today, or is it a week from yesterday? I clearly don’t know but what I do know is that every single year I love and dread this time and I’m beyond a shadow of a doubt ready and terrified.
What is tricky about this transfer window is that we can’t predict or rationalize the decisions that the current manager will make, so even if we buy player X, I don’t know if he’ll get the best out of them and I don’t even know which position we will try to fill in for.
Like, everyone is obsessed with LWM and with the idea of Leah playing in midfield. I am neither. If anything I would love to see LWM as a right back or even a LB from time to time and I think she would be an absolute monster in a defensive midfield situation because she has a lot of the attributes.
With that said I would go for a central defender, in theory, BUT Lotte was fantastic and deserves to play and with Laia and of course Amanda, it will provide us with enough options, first, second and third of which are Leah Williamson.
What we need are world class players, in every position. We have tons of them actually already, as you well know, but if we’re gonna buy a midfielder it has to be Keira status, if we’re gonna buy a defender it has to be Greenwood status… you get the drift.
I love Cloe and I would love to see her get more minutes but if the options are her and Caitlin on the left, we certainly need more competition and we need players that can swap wings with Beth like Hemp does and how Chloe Kelly does, unless that player is Caldentey who has no option but to have the biggest season possible given the fact that optically she is “replacing Vivianne Miedema.” and goddamn do I hate the sound of that.
For the record I am not over and will never be over that manager and the club doing what they did and how they did it to Viv. Never ever and I promise you I won’t let you forget it either because I will talk about it whenever I can.
But going back to “needing world class players” what we actually need is a world class manager, who would get the absolute best out of all the players on and off the pitch. Someone who the players would die for and play for, not someone with soundbites who pushes players, literally, and is rewarded with a new contract for not winning.
There’s a ceiling to the player’s ability to express themselves and that can be the downfall of next season which ultimately be his in the end if the club are smart.
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