Ranking The Five Biggest Club Rebuilds This Summer

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There are plenty of big clubs who have struggled this season, and who seem to be in a summer of transition in terms of transfers. We turn the studio into a soccer surgery for a week and let our expert doctors, Sam Tighe, Dean Jones and Jack Collins, take a diagnosis of how these teams can turn their fortunes around. We fix Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Manchester United and Real Madrid - talking through where the holes in their squads are, the budgets they have to work with, and the players they can afford to fill them - taking a deep dive into transfer insight and tactical sense in equal measure. In this week's Hot Takes, we take a look at how a 4th to 7th playoff series for the last Champions League spot could make the Premier League more exciting, if Jose Mourinho is the right man to take the vacant Juventus hot seat and whether Frank Lampard is in fact any good at management. Bleacher Roulette takes on more fun and games as we talk about whether we'd prefer the career of Dani Alves or Philipp Lahm, if we'd prefer to score a cup final winner as a first minute screamer or a last minute tap-in, and which teams are most fun to play with on FIFA and Football Manager. To get involved, follow @brfootball on Twitter and Instagram, and use the hashtag #BRFootballRanks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Ranked Squad. It is that time of the week again where this terrible trio tied together to talk through the trials and tribulations from the touchlines.
0:27.0	Touching on tactics and transfers as we traverse the twisting territories of tackles and target men.
0:32.7	Oh yes, it's BR Football Ranks.
0:35.5	Public service announcement.
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0:56.6	Right.
0:57.6	Housekeeping done.
0:59.0	We're doing things a little bit differently today.
1:01.1	This week we're shape-shifting the studio into a soccer surgery,
1:04.4	becoming the doctors of defensive diagnosis,
1:06.8	the medical maestroes of midfield malfunctions,
1:09.4	the surgeons of substandard strikers,
1:11.9	here to determine the teams in desperate need of a full body checkup and some real medication
1:16.8	over the course of this summer transfer window.
1:19.4	My name is Jack Collins, and I'll be your favourite, friendly neighbourhood receptionist at today's
1:24.6	pop-up surgery, calling the numbers so that all that need it get a chance to see the doctors on duty today.
1:31.7	Diagnoser-in-chief for these sickly squads, the oncologist of order, the ranking radiologist, is ranked Dr. Sam Tai.
1:38.7	Hello, Jack.
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