Originally Posted by
Insidious
I love what Phillips is achieving. I hope for our sake he stays.
It's an uncomfortable thing to say but we just don't know how Van Dijk is going to be when he comes back. There's a possibility he could be a "Kompany" in that he is imperious when he plays, but can't play 80% of games anymore.
If there was a "third" of the pitch where I'd rather we have one or two "extra" players than how you'd normally construct a squad (defence, midfield, attack) then, after this season, I'd pick defence as the area.
As for the construction of the numbers, people keep mentioning Matip - in a Covid-influenced economic climate do we really foresee anyone coming in for him with a fee we would accept? I'd be very pleasantly surprised if we got bidders for him - people will want a sure thing as we ease out of the Covid situation and Matip is a player who regularly unavailable with niggles.
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