If we don't sign anyone, we won't finish top 4

[Neil McNab's Tash]

So everybody hits the panic button because we have lost ONE player for the season!

A Question to you then, who would you sign to replace Johnson? Have you just reacted because AJ is injured, i didn't see you posting this before Friday!

We have lost a player who admittedly has the ability to change games although most of the time he hasn't, he wasn't a certain starter, there is quality running all trhough this squad.

I'm surprised by your knee-jerk reaction Rick.

 

[taconinja]

Completely untrue , spurs haven't and won't sign anyone , arsenal haven't signed anyone , the rags haven't it is just chelsea with one player who has had an on off season . We will be fine , we may need a winger to cover AJ but it isn't essential as he didn't start every game . When mario is back with silva and dzeko and tevez etc. we will be fine.

Yeah but Mario isn't back for a while, Silva has only just come back from injury, Dzeko is new and Tevez is injured, so is AJohnson, Jo is shit, Guidetti is completely untried... That's not fine!

We've got an FA Cup replay, a midweek FA Cup game in the next round (Spurs don't, did they lose on purpose?), two legs against Aris, a mid week Prem game, West Brom and the derby all in the next few weeks. I think in April we may well be fine but for all these games over the next few weeks it's gonna be very tough.

I'm almost thinking we should get orselves out of the FA Cup!

Anelka is not going to Liverpool, and as far as injuries go think about how long they will be without Carroll.

 

[alera]

Let's see there is a train of thought that bridge rsc were not good enough anyway and never played. Ade hardly played for us over the last 12 months. Would have liked to see a wide player for cover but we can't keep signing 3 players or more every window.

If we can't sign better than what we have why sign anyone at all. I will admit with the injuries the squad looks thin Chelsea are fine now they are def top 4 so its down to spurs and us like last season.

 

[Nurah]

I really can't believe how dumb Liverpool is. 35 million pounds for an injured striker best known for falling off of bar stools, getting into fights at clubs, partying till 5 in the morning. Yeah, sounds like a real sound, long-term investment. Add that to Luis Saurez, a good player but also one of the biggest cheats in the game. When you factor in the time it's going to take for these players to gel, especially since all of them seem to be primarily offensive, I think this will end in disaster for them.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Let's see there is a train of thought that bridge rsc were not good enough anyway and never played. Ade hardly played for us over the last 12 months. Would have liked to see a wide player for cover but we can't keep signing 3 players or more every window.

If we can't sign better than what we have why sign anyone at all. I will admit with the injuries the squad looks thin Chelsea are fine now they are def top 4 so its down to spurs and us like last season.

City v Spurs Apr16th (day after my birthday).

 

[Neil McNab's Tash]

Completely untrue , spurs haven't and won't sign anyone , arsenal haven't signed anyone , the rags haven't it is just chelsea with one player who has had an on off season . We will be fine , we may need a winger to cover AJ but it isn't essential as he didn't start every game . When mario is back with silva and dzeko and tevez etc. we will be fine.

Yeah but Mario isn't back for a while, Silva has only just come back from injury, Dzeko is new and Tevez is injured, so is AJohnson, Jo is shit, Guidetti is completely untried... That's not fine!

We've got an FA Cup replay, a midweek FA Cup game in the next round (Spurs don't, did they lose on purpose?), two legs against Aris, a mid week Prem game, West Brom and the derby all in the next few weeks. I think in April we may well be fine but for all these games over the next few weeks it's gonna be very tough.

I'm almost thinking we should get orselves out of the FA Cup!

Holy shit Dan, that's frightening, are you ok mate?

Sorry i didn't see your mention of Spurs' and the champions league, maybe their squad isn't as good as ours and that's why they're out of the FA Cup, i thought Fulham played very well though, for one they don't have any centre halves, Woodgate isn't being allowed to go anywhere do to a shortage in that position.

 

[mancboy123]

Why is everyone getting so giddy over liverpool. Look at the players they have signed 2 of them have had one good half season in the premiership and they are going to pay the best part of 50m for the pair of them, how many teams have you seen a player come up and do well because of the surprise factor only to fade into nothingness the season after anyone remember steven ireland and then no one knows about suarez.

Can you imagine if we spent that kind of money on unproven players we would be slaughtered but for liverpool its cracking business believe it when i see it

 

[taconinja]

The way people are talking today, I would think we were one point above the relegation places.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

To say we won't finish top four is over the top...


But, I think it could make the target for CL qualification more difficult... while our competitors squads are being strengthened, ours is becoming weaker due to injuries. Yes, we may be sitting in 3rd at the moment... but even with what we have spent so far, we still struggle to secure 3 points in games that we should be winning confidently.

The only games I can think of where we have managed to win without any trouble are Fulham and Liverpool.

Our GK situation is perfectly fine.
Defensively, the only issue we had before was a CB to partner Kompany... we tried both Lescott and Toure, however... both made many errors which have nearly cost us points and neither are good enough. Boateng was given the nod at Notts County and did a good job so he can partner Kompany.

The only concern I have is who can play on the wing... AJ injured and the only winger I can think of is Sweep. You don't get the best out of Milner and Silva on the wing.

 

[The Fixer]

I'd take 4th now, chelsea now look like signing David Luiz again.