22 Dec 2018 22:06:32
Ed001, I have been reading up about the potential ban that we will face and the way it will affect the squad.
Here are the players who are either old, not good enough or running down their contracts:
1) Caballero
2) Green
3) Luiz
4) Zappacosta
5) Cahill
6) Fabregas
7) Kovacic (on loan)
8) Hazard
9) Pedro
10) Willian
11) CHO
12) Morata
13) Giroud
Even if we use existing resources to address some of the replacements (Ampadu for Luiz, Reece James for Zappacosta, Cumming for Green), there's still 10 players to be brought before we receive the lengthy ban.
How will the club go about such a revamp considering that nothing of this size has been done before?
{Ed001's Note - well Caballero still has a few years left in him. Green is only a 3rd choice keeper, you can just use a youth keeper until the ban lifts. Personally I hate the waste of money on a high waged 3rd choice keeper who never plays anyway. It is disgusting when there are so many with nothing and teams are just basically throwing away tens of thousands of pounds a week rather than having the balls to go with a youngster in that rare event two keepers are out injured at the same time.
The rest can be pretty much covered by loanees. You have a huge amount of loanees out, why not just use them in your team instead of farming them out? Personally I would ban any loans, it is wrong and alters the balance of the game to any team that benefits from loaning a player and also reduces the chances of youngsters breaking through from those teams.}
23 Dec 2018 09:00:59
Ed001, There was talk of UEFA/ FIFA introducing a limit to the amount of players a club could loan out a couple months back wasn’t there? I’ve not really heard anything about it since though. Do you know if anything’s happened with it?
{Ed001's Note - it is still planned for introduction in the summer.}
23 Dec 2018 11:12:34
Alonso should be the first name there!
23 Dec 2018 11:30:14
Surely the introduction of measures to reduce loaning will have to be brought in slowly in stages - if you do it all at once, you will flood the market and players will end up signing on!
23 Dec 2018 14:20:30
From what I have read, it will be implemented from the 20/ 21 season.