janpawel

If we did get him on loan or whatever, surely he'd sit as the deepest midfielder, couldn't see him in front of Bruno It would maybe open the door further for hall/livramento to be our full backs playing as wing backs, with Phillips dropping in to be the 3rd centre back.... As it would seem a bit over the top imo to have burn as a 3rd centre back with Phillips sitting in front

If Milan indeed new this was coming, then what's the likelihood that Tonali knew too? And if Tonali knew, do we really want a player who (if the above is true) basically used us to take the punishment rather than Milan, essentially sabotaging us? I'm not saying this is true or my line of thought, it's just an angle I haven't seen many discuss..

Was wanting to ask this too in the very worst case With our owners being so rich, I'm sure they could afford a £50M replacement (again, in worst case), but if FFP wouldn't let us write off the fee for Tonali, then we'd be severely hampered by FFP

Who would be everyone's preferred RW signing, presumably we signed someone for the first team?

So do you guys think we are set for the near future for centre mid? Providing no outgoings, then we have Bruno, Joelinton, Willock, Tonali, Longstaff, Anderson and then Miley coming along... That's 6/7 and all pretty young I'm just wondering as a lot of people still discuss us getting a DM/6, but surely in order to get one we'd neeed to sell one of the above, even if we got a young player happy to be on the bench, soon (and if all fit) we're already going to have 3 of those on the bench who will want/need regular minutes I wonder what out first choice midfield 3 will be in 6 months if they are all fit!!