2013-2014 team

January
IN: Stankovic (loan), De Rossi and Villa (loan)
OUT: Rodwell (loan), Suarez (loan), Balotelli and Guidetti (loan)

Summer
IN: Sakho, Beausejour, Walcott (free), Isco, BIG NAME ATTACKER (Falcao/Neymar/Ronaldo/Suarez)
OUT: Wright, Lescott, K Toure (free), Bridge (free), McGivern, Barry, M Johnson (free), Ibrahim, Razak, Sinclair, Santa Cruz (free), Nimely, Dzeko

That would be around 65/70m of income + a substantial wage decrease
and around 80/85m of outgoings
Leaving us with:

Hart
Zabaleta Kompany Nastasic Clichy
Y Toure De Rossi
Silva Aguero Nasri
Falcao

Pantilimon
Maicon Richards Sakho Kolarov
Garcia Milner
Walcott Tevez Isco
Guidetti
 
all those trying to predict the team, forget the players for a few minutes and try and get you head round the 'new philosophy'. Part of the whole sustainability, FFP bollocks and bringing in of the Barca crowd is to move to a 6/5 set-up - or the 'Barca model' as its known in the circles that talk about this kind of stuff.

6/5 ??

This is simply, 6 world class big money singings, and 5 home grown talents.

Expect future transfer activity (or lack of) to be moving towards this model, a lot sooner than you might expect. Now i think you could argue, and win, that we down have the young talent in our academy to step in now and make this work.

We have Hart and Richards, and then on the fringes there is Guidetti, Razzak, Rekik, Saurez etc. but of the fringe players nothing is really solid yet. A lot in the next graduation group but nothing to step in for 2013.

In the team who are your 6 players?? Kompany, Yaya, Aguero, Silva are probably your dead on certs, then the other two, Tevez, Zabba, Clichy, Nastasic, Mario, Dzeko, Nasri

and then there appears to be scant room for Lescot, Kolo, Barry, Milner, Kolarov, Maicon, Rodwell, Sinclair and co.

I wouldnt expect a massive clearout but dont be surprised if a lot of the players in the last group leave in the summer. Especially those the wrong side of 30. We cant have the 6/5 functioning for 2013/14 but they will want to have it as a working model sooner rather than later.

quick edit, i'm not saying i think this is the right way forward or that it will work, just that i think it might (will) happen.
 
MCRJON said:
all those trying to predict the team, forget the players for a few minutes and try and get you head round the 'new philosophy'. Part of the whole sustainability, FFP bollocks and bringing in of the Barca crowd is to move to a 6/5 set-up - or the 'Barca model' as its known in the circles that talk about this kind of stuff.

6/5 ??

This is simply, 6 world class big money singings, and 5 home grown talents.
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I don't think the '5' means home grown at least not yet, the Duncan Castles report said it'd be 'elite' level young players with the potential to be world class (ie. Nastasic), using Yaya's transfer from Monaco to Barcelona as the template. Players like Isco would definitely fall into that category. At this stage we'd probably not be able to sustain our quality with 6 stars + 5 home grown but it may be possible down the line. I don't think it accounts for squad players either, we need 25 after all, the likes of Barry could survive if they accept reduced terms. I'd like Barry to stay if he is still at the required level when his contract ends in 2014.
 
mancitydreamteam said:
The team I want for the start of 13/14 season

Hart
Zabba
Kompany
Nastatic
Clichy
Yaya
Fellani
Silva
Aguero
Tevez
Neymar
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This! Neymar and Feliani. Sell Balo,
 
Hart
Zabaleta Kompany Nastasic Clichy
Yaya
Silva Fellani Lavezzi
Aguero Falcoa

Manager: Bobby Mancini

I would sell Nasri, Balotelli and reluctantly Dzeko.
Silva would have the license to roam around the pitch and lavezzi the to bomb down the left wing and possibly bring richards on to go down the right if it was going tits up.
 
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