05 Aug 2025 00:14:31
**UPDATES**
2 Players in each position? Squad taking shape.
Sels, **GUNN**
RB/ LWB:
Aina, (Traore? but prob new player)
LB/ LWB:
Williams, New Player
CB: Milenkovic, Murillo, Cuhna, Boly, Morato, Abbott?
DMF: Sangare, Luiz?
Box to box MF:
Yates, Anderson, MGW, Dominguez
Wing and Att MF:
Odoi, Ndoye, Traore?, (MGW), (Anderson), (Dominguez),
Striker: Wood, Jesus, Awoniyi
I've assumed Douglas Luiz or another MF is coming and also assumed we will get Traore.
GAPS
Left Back/ Right-back
**FOUR** more signings if you include Luiz and Traore. Five more if we sign another striker or attacker.
05 Aug 2025 00:58:17
I forgot to add Bott, who would be one of the four home growns alongside Yates and Abbott.
In fact, I think we can't have all the places above, as we are one short of home-grown players from your own academy. Maybe Dominguez won't make the squad for the early season due to not being fully fit. However, there is no place above for Jota or Miguel.
** You can have 25 players but 4 must be home-grown AND from your own academy. We have Yates, Abbott and you could argue for having Bott as a 3rd keeper. We either have to throw in another player from the B team or bring in a player from our academy like Johnson, Lascelles, Darlow or whoever.
05 Aug 2025 10:30:31
Shame we never went in for Burke, better than Jota Silva imo, he's gone to Union Berlin now?.
05 Aug 2025 10:36:51
Isn’t Gunn now 2nd keeper.
05 Aug 2025 11:12:48
I've added Gunn, Stevie. Next to Sels.
If you count including Bott, there are 25 players (or gaps for the new full-backs we seem to need, but we don't have the four academy home-grown. That means one of those places can't be in the UEFA squad.
05 Aug 2025 11:13:12
Not signed yet Stevie, apparently he will later this week.
05 Aug 2025 11:14:12
Basically, if we don't have Bott as the third keeper, we would be two spaces short for UEFA squad anyway.
05 Aug 2025 12:19:07
I think we will get in Luiz, Traore, Tchatchoua. Then maybe one more full back and we are good.
Potential Starting team.
Selz
Aina Murillo Milencovic Tchatchoua (Williams)
Luiz Anderson
Ndoye MGW CHO
Wood/ Jesus
Subs
Bott Williams, Cunha, Morato, Dominguez, Sangare, Traore, Jesus/ Wood, Awoniyi.