Yeah, from people I’d actually trust, they really wanted Verbruggen from Anderlecht - who is young enough not to need to be registered this season. But he ended up going to Brighton to be first choice there.
Then they were interested in getting Zieler across from Germany to replace Adrian because he counts as homegrown due to his academy background with United, but he wasn’t keen.
They’re a bit ****ed with homegrown players having lost Henderson, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, with Phillips likely to leave. So they just have 4 left out of a possible 8 (Gomez, Trent, Jones, Kelleher). Which basically gives them a senior squad (2001 or later) of 21 players.
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