Squad for next season

[Blue Is the Opposite of Blue]

Goalkeepers
Joe Hart
John Ruddy
Richard Wright

Defenders
Pablo Zabaleta
Bacary Sagna
Vincent Kompany
Martin Demichelis
Matija Nastasic
Eliaqium Mangala
Aleksandar Kolarov
Luke Shaw

Midfielders
James Milner
Jesus Navas
Yaya Toure
Fernandinho
Bruno Zuculini
Jack Rodwell
Javi Garcia
Fernando
David Silva
Samir Nasri
Marcos Lopes

Forwards
Sergio Aguero
Alvaro Negredo
Stefan Jovetic
Edin Dzeko

 

[Shirley]

Javi Garcia-------------10 million
Scott Sinclair------------4 million
Edin Dzeko -------------18 million


There is only one club who would pay those inflated fees, and that unfortunately is us:-)

 

[inbetween]

Personally I'd cash in on Yaya and possibly Nasri and Aguero if his injuries are as bad as feared.

Yaya is carried for me an distorts the flow of the team albeit we see moments of pure genius, there aren't many other top teams in Europe that carry a player like him.

Nasri again is in and out he only seems to play when he feels like it.

We need some work rate in the squad and build around Silva. We need a team that doesn't crumble as soon as it leaves the comfort of the Etihad.

Outs for me -

Hart
Richards
Clichy
Lescott
MDM
Boyata
Yaya
Garcia
Dzeko
Nasri

Way too many and you have missed the one certainty at this stage namely Gareth Barry.

That's at least 5 of our starting eleven for the majority of premeirship games.

Agree I missed Barry although I would trust him ahead of Garcia.

I think we need some drastic changes we've given the title away the last two seasons due to carrying too many billy big bollocks namely Yaya and Nasri so we need to have a look at it.

The team balance is the most important thing and if that means the loss of some big names so be it for me.

Look at the best teams around at the moment.

Chelsea - one world class if say in Hazard
Liverpool - one Suarez possibly Gerrard
Munich - two Robben and Ribery
Madrid - Ronaldo.

We have Nasri, Yaya, Silva, Aguero, Jovetic.

Too many on the pitch for me for the overall balance of the team. We only need two of them and then workers around them.

I don't think it's fair to say that we have carried Yaya, he is our top scorer and has the best midfielder stats in the league..... He is a contender for POTY rather than a passenger!

 

[nmc]

Emyr Huws should get a new contract and go out on loan for another year (somewhere like Swansea who play football) he is very good and with the right development could get into our squad.

 

[Jacks77]

Emyr Huws should get a new contract and go out on loan for another year (somewhere like Swansea who play football) he is very good and with the right development could get into our squad.

Yep even if he isnt any good for us in the future, he could be sold next summer for 0.5-1.5 m pounds. Small fee but still a fee...
(Instead of letting him leave on free when he has a really good loan period at Birmingham...)

 

[Marvin]

Javi Garcia-------------10 million
Scott Sinclair------------4 million
Edin Dzeko -------------18 million


There is only one club who would pay those inflated fees, and that unfortunately is us:-)

Garcia and Dzeko are good players. Better than Liverpool's £7m Luis Alberto, £7m Aspas, £7m Ilori, £18m Sakho

 

[blueparrot]

I think realistically we'll see maybe Mangala, Fernando and Sagna come in.

I think Lescott, Barry, Sinclair, Wright, Boyata, Richards and Guidetti will leave.

Obviously an issue with home grown players though. We can only have 17 non home grown players in the squad. At the moment we have 16:

Pantilimon
Demichelis
Kolarov
Kompany
Nastasic
Zabaleta
Fernandinho
Garcia
Nasri
Navas
Silva
Toure
Aguero
Dzeko
Jovetic
Negredo

To allow the signings of the three mentioned, we'd have to lose two.

I imagine Pantilimon, Kolarov, Nastasic, Demichelis, Garcia and Dzeko are most at threat to be replaced by a "home grown" player.

Pretty sure Pantilimon will go, plus Nastasic doesn't need to be registered as non home grown next season as still classed as U21. I think if Dzeko does leave he will be replaced by another non home grown,either a striker or goal scoring attacking midfielder.

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

That's superb regarding Nastasic, I thought he was going to have to be registered.