Townsend is defo out in January even if its only on a loan. He wants to stay and fight for his spot but he is too far down teh pecking order now, not to mention is disciplinary issues. He father and manager have told him he needs to leave as he will only play in the U/21s for us now.
If Dier needs a rest then its no biggie, we got Bentilab back now and Moose is in career best form, we wont miss him for a week against the barcodes as we got tons of depth in the DM spot.
Onomah wass amazing this morning and much better than Clinton imo, this kid is EPL ready now. We also have Pritchard coming back now so yeh, goodbye Andros. We also got Oduwa to come back from loan from Celtic. He is playing extremely well.
Good to see CCV on the bench, he will be the next to step up I reckon, I dont think we need another CB to replace Dier now that he has moved to DM, in any case he could fill in at CB if need be.
We really are seeing the benefit of having such decent academy players and we've also got Sterling and Harrison fighting over a striker spot. Hard to believe they are both just 17 and 18 years old. Harrison has scored 11 goals against Chel$ki in just 9 games in u/18s and U/21s and they have a pretty decent academy squad as well.
We will buy or loan a decent striker in January but I see our academy players as our future.
