He would be great for what Lopetegui wants out of this team. But it’s a few years too late.
I think Jean-Michael Seri is better for the Banega role. He was so close to a move to Barça, but now finds himself on-loan in Turkey. Prolly won’t be too expensive signing him from Fulham.
De Jong, En-Nesyri, Carlos Fernandez… who are we leaving out? That’d be a bit much. If he was a striker who could play on the wing, it would be better.
Not entirely convinced by Schick, he went to Roma and started 40+games due to Dzeko getting injured but only managed 5 goals over 2 seasons. He’s played slightly better at RB playing alongside Werner and has 10 goals so far. Not sure if he’s the answer but for a similar price and attributes I can only name Volland.
Seems like Monchi is going for his old charges from Roma, we were linked to Justin Kluviert and Under only a few months earlier.
If we were playing 4-4-2, sure. But even a 3rd striker would have trouble getting games in 1-striker formations (eg. Aspas, Immobile). That’s why it’s better for that 3rd striker to be versatile. Having 4 CFs is just overkill.
It wouldn’t hurt for Fernandez to stay in Granada 1 more season. Until En-Nesyri solidifies himself as the starting CF, he still needs to come off the bench. He needs to develop his hold-up play, which De Jong is brilliant in.
Super strange, but great for Nolito as he will slot right into their XI in my opinion. He was a great team player for Sevilla and had some impactful goals. Best of luck Nolito!
No idea how that can be squared over a goalkeeper. Nolito was great for the dressing room but never reached his previous level. No doubt he’ll spring to life in Celta.
How do you rate Asenjo? His injuries have troubled him throughout his career, but whenever i see him he’s brilliant. Made a sublime save vs. Granada the other day.
Tore his cruciate 4 times??? 
I thought it had only been twice. That’s shitty luck.
I seen Schwolow from Freiburg floating around in the papers, but i don’t watch any Bundesliga. Germany does tend to produce good GKs. There’s also Rui Silva that was brought up (but our Granada signing will be Machís, right? 
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Monchi was on a mission to undo all of Caparrós’ signings from the previous summer. I’m sure Vaclík was part of those plans too, but maybe he pulled back after his mishap with the Olsen fiasco at Roma. Speaking of Serie A, there’s Dragowski (Fiorentina) who’s decent.
Seeing as CL football is the goal, it’s one of those positions that’ll be crucial. We have one of the best defensive tridents, and it’d be a shame to have an error-prone goalie to spoil that.
The signings during Caparros’s reign were uninspiring to say the least with Promes, Amadou, Gnagnon and Vidal headlining the list. Vaclik and Gomez were also signed in that window and at least performed decently for the first season, especially Vaclik who saved a few certain goals here and there, don’t know why but Sevilla keepers could only give one season of consistent performances before succumbing to errors and gaffes. Vaclik in his current form is is a liability but still better than Rico was.
Glad that Kounde has really improved in the two games back, that and the dying down of the Diego Carlos rumors means we might have our starting CB partnership intact for next season, now for backups, the team is running threadbare with 3 CBs and 1 LB and RB.
As for strikers, Carlos Fernandez has a role to play here next season, backing up De Jong if Lope and Monchi still have faith in him. I’m not sure if En-Nesyri was signed as an out-and-out target man or someone who waits on the wings and uses his pace to find scoring opportunities due to him not being used to holding up the ball with his lack of balance. Latest name to be linked is Ante Budimir, a 1.9m tall Croatian battering ram who has scored 9 goals with Mallorca.
So the striker situation could be seen as:
Main forward: De Jong and/or Budimir, Fernandez, En-Nesyri
Partner forward in 4-4-2: Munir, En-Nesyri or Schick if he comes.
1000%! Kjaer in our backline hosting these manita parties. But the lack of cohesion between head coach & sporting director just made everything crumble. Especially since those managers were dog shit.
Anybody else agree that Carlos Fernandez should be our starter next season? Would make good competition with Youssef. I’m trying with De Jong, but i feel it takes a while for him. And when are we gonna see a brace from him?
Fernandez wouldn’t have gotten starter minutes. Now that he’s proven himself in the top division, it’s clear cut. I’m not saying he’ll become a 20-goal killer, but I could see him fit into this system quite well. He’s got the right attitude to boot.
The only thing i’m not sure about is whether Lope or Monchi are adamant to divorce themselves from De Jong. Has great aerial presence, which we’ve under-utilized, but still hasn’t got the complete trust from his teammates. My gut is screaming “Eredivisie flop!”
We haven’t seen this attribute in the red and white uniform imo.
I only see it when he’s chasing lost causes. But his work rate is top notch under Lopetegui. The guy runs back for everything. Needs to work on his game when he’s back to goal. He misreads a lot of passes. 
Makes me think he should be loaned out next season.
Hmmm… Despite Reguilon performing questionable this year, if you sign both on long term deals, your wing backs can become a very stable asset for the next 4-5 years. They are both talented, just underperforming I think. I know Reguilon can do better. Looking into the future that could be exciting.
Ocampos will be a huge miss, but as always we will have to make something appear out of our high hat the next transfer window to find our Banega replacements as well, figure out what we need to do with Suso (we didn´t buy him right, or was it a certain amount of games and we buy clausule im not sure). If we find a solid goalkeeper we have a 5 man unit at the back from which you can build onwards. I think that is not a bad plan. Let´s ask for Areola as well while we are at it.
--------------------------Chimy Avíla----------------------------
----------Munir ---- ------Oliver--------- Luis Alberto----
-------------------Rafinha---------Fernando-------------------
–Reguilon - Diego Carlos - Koundé - Odriozola–
---------------------(solid goalkeeper)-----------------------
Some small additions and we are ready haha. I was very impressed with Rafinha versus us, and last week he was great too. Think he can still grow a lot in a better team. Ofcourse Avila has to return from an injury but I just started dreaming a bit.
Other players we have been rumoured with, José Callejón on free transfer and Erick Pulgar and Rodrigo de Paul as well. Very curious what monchi and crew can bring home.
To get rid of high wages and limited growth I would put Vaclik, De Jong and Vazquez up for sale.Feel like they are way to expensive to just keep for second string. Get a replacement, and as you mentioned give Carlos Fernandez second striker spot imo.
If they add Oscar Rodriguez in this deal, i’ll take it.
His release clause is only €8M. But maybe Monchi has someone else in mind. The papers are rarely correct about his targets.
And why would you go to Schalke? I’m sure they’ll pay him more, but they’re a mess.
on Percentage of Saves Vaclik is 15th in La liga. Not a good stat, but his actions and the WAY it happens in the games makes me dislike him more and more. 100% Needs to go, get a young decent goalkeeper, thank him for his first season but we need to move on. There might be a bundesliga team or whatever that picks him up or an english team that is having a worse one right now.
I tried to look for managers with expiring contracts but couldn´t find. out of the free agents wasn´t really drawn towards one of them. I found maybe. Marcelo Gallardo from River Plate who was linked with Barça in 2019, but wanted to stay at River. I like the approach of bringing a more newer face, with maybe some interesting networks or styles compared to the oh so rusty trainers carrousel in upper club europe. Mark van Bommel is a promising, I heard him named before here, if he is decent in Spanish I would do it, I think communicating via translators takes away way too much value. So that would depend how serious he picked up spanish in his 1 year in Barcelona. So thats another one. Yet I feel Mark will be a defensive minded type of coach. He is free, and said to be looking for something to start in this off season. Just want the board to start looking now, regardless of how we end this season.
We have been scouting in Ligue 1 for a bit, but for goalkeepers I like Rulli, 27, Argentinian and Rajkovic from Reims, 23 Serbian. Both around 1,90 and 85 kg. With good stats considering their teams are not the greatest although in good form this year. Ofcourse im not the one too know the ins and outs but just yeh I like to look for some names to get my anti vaclik sentiment out of me.
Also nothing against Unai Simon, but I just have this feeling many of the basque players just don´t leave Bilbao for anything other then top teams.