Well after watching the City game tonight, I started wondering what our team should look like next season. Now that it seems that Pellegrini is coming in and he likes the 4-2-2-2 (which is actually my favorite formation in FM) I thought about how our team should shape up.
Starting with our strikers. Unfortunately we should sell Dzeko, he's in demand and we could probably get about 15-20 million for him. Tevez too. I like Tevez and this season was our best forward, but one year to the end of his contract and a player in the similar mold as Aguero, we should sell him. 15 million would be a good price. With that the obvious signing should be Cavani. One of the top 5 best strikers in the world right now, scores assists, creates can play all over the attack and most importantly is tall. He would instantly raise the bar of our team. Now we have Cavani and Aguero. We need to bring in Guidetti to the first team since he's our Lukaku and from what he did at Feynoord could be a great player for us. I'm still wondering where he is? Is that virus more serious than we think? Lastly we need a fourth striker. With 2 strikers up top we need 2 strikers to supplement them. Ideally we should get a very good striker who we can rely on immediately but won't mind to be benched. Also we need some English players for registration so I'll go with Jordan Rhodes right now. A ridiculous goalscorer, has scored at every team he's been and is still 23. Moved to Blackburn in October and scored 27 goals this season. Plus he's 23. We be a good fit.
Now to the wings. It's pretty obvious that we have suffered from lacking a true winger. I remember saying last summer that the most important position we need was a winger. This season has pretty much proven that. Now with Sinclair, I don't know where his head is at and his level right now. At Swansea he was pretty good so it might not be terrible to keep him. If he had to sell him we should replace him with an English winger. Best bet Tom Ince.
After that obviously we'll need Isco.
In the middle of the park, we pretty much need 2 signings and 1 departure. Javi Garcia should be sold. He's a good def midfielder but he is not world class and we really need a world class def midfielder to replace him. Etienne Capoue is my choice. Last summer I remembered saying that if we missed out on Martinez we should go for Capoue. Well this season he's exploded even more. Scored 7 goals this season and is now a rock in the French national team midfield. Matuidi is another good pick but PSG won't sell him. The next signing should be fernandinho. Now it's important to not that fernadinho is not a traditional def midfielder and is more of a Yaya toure, Ramires player so bringing him in, isto give us more choices as regard to Yaya toure's position.
In defense our fullbacks are ok. Actually no, sell Maicon. In the centre we need one player. Since we'll be selling off Toure and Lescott, we should replace them with two players. Shawcross and Novaretti. Thereby we have 4 go to central defenders.
This is how my lineup would look like
Summary:
Sell:
Dzeko
Tevez
Sinclair
Javi Garcia
Maicon
Kolo Toure
Lescott
Buy:
Cavani
Jordan Rhodes
Tom Ince
Isco
Fernandinho
Capoue
Shawcross
Novaretti