ojeme said:
Anybody heard that City plans to spend as much as £200 this summer? If so the next step would be how do we get value for money so that we don't waste money any further like we've been accustomed to doing in the last couple of years. I have decided to come up with the following in a sort of 4-3-3 setting with Pogba stirring the attack:
Hart
Zabaleta Kompany Mangala Clichy
Koke Pogba Schneiderlin
Bale Aguero Lacezette
Myhill, Johanssen
Sagna Denayer Demichelis Kolarov
Fernandinho Fernando
Navas Silva, Pozo Lopes
Bony, Ihenacho
Pogba 75 million pounds
Koke 48
Bale 75
Schneiderlin 27
Lacazette 40
Total 265
Yaya 20
Dzeko 15
Nasri 15
Jovetic 15
Nastasic 5
Sinclair 2
Total 72
Net spend £193 million
What's your say?
How can you not start Silva?
Gareth Bale, 25, Real Madrid - £60m (€82m) / or Raheem Sterling, 20, Liverpool - £40m
Paul Pogba, 21, Juventus - £50m (€68m)
Koke, 23, Atletico Madrid - £43m (€60m)
Ricardo Rodriguez, 23, Wolfsburg - £25m (€34m)
Nathaniel Clyne, 23, Southampton - £15m
Kasper Schmeichel, 28, Leicester - £3m / or any homegrown backup keeper
Maybe sign a couple of young English players and loan them out (Luke Garbutt, Joe Gomez, Louis Reed, Patrick Roberts, Zach Clough etc)
Circa £200m
Alvaro Negredo, 29 - £25m
Stevan Jovetic, 25 - £20m
Jesus Navas, 29 - £8m
Fernando, 27 - £8m
Aleksandar Kolarov, 29 - £8m
Matija Nastasic, 21 - £7m
Karim Rekik, 20 - £6m
Willy Caballero, 34 - £2m
Bacary Sagna, 32 - £2m
Scott Sinclair, 25 - £2m
Dedryck Boyata, 24 - £1m
Richard Wright, 37 - Released
Frank Lampard, 36 - Released
James Milner, 29 - Released (assuming we can't get him to sign a new contract)
Micah Richards, 26 - Released
John Guidetti, 22 - Released
Circa £90m
Hart,
Schmeichel, (
Lawlor)
Zabaleta,
Clyne
Kompany, Mangala, Demichelis, (Denayer)
Rodriguez,
Clichy
Pogba, Koke, Toure, Fernandinho, (
Evans)
Silva,
Bale, Nasri, (
Lopes), (
Barker)
Aguero, Bony, Dzeko, (Iheanacho)
Homegrown
Club trained
(Under 21)
This is probably too much, but a squad reshuffle is necessary IMO as this squad is beginning to go stale. 1 or 2 good signings would paper over the cracks for a little while but we need to rejuvenate the squad as much as we can this summer.