Shogun wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 1:57 pm
Not sure people realise just how bad the squad is going into next season. We have Garner, Onana and Doucoure as our 3 CMs and massive gaps everywhere else in the team.
Not sure how this is in the Garner thread but keeping on Gana, selling Onana to free up funds for other positions and bringing in Barkley on a free is a no-brainer.
I don't think we can be too choosey but at the same time you need cohesion within the team and players that fit in with how the manager wants to play.
Does Barkley compliment the rest of the players? Maybe, we need creativity, although his numbers aren't anything special in that department.
Will he fit in the system better than Doucoure? Debatable, and I don't think he'd be interested in coming here as a rotation option.
He absolutely wouldn't put in the workrate demanded by the manager which would cause more problems than it solved.
He's apparently on £35k a week, if he wanted the same here it's highly unlikely we'd find a better player on that wage for free or cheap. However what is also highly unlikely is he'd want the same wages to come back, you're probably looking at double for a player that doesn't really fit the system, won't fit in with the requirements of the manager, and most likely wouldn't even work out all that cheap with regards our wage bill.