to be honest, i think bobby will have his rights to pick whoever he thinks will take the club forward. it will be his decision who's in and who's out. in fact, he was doing it for inter milan for many years. why can't he do it with us?
to be fair, no manager is going to come out and say oh yeah im gonna spend shed loads of cash! but i have faith in bobbys wheeling and dealin - just look at adam johnson! although if we do make champo league, may need slightly higher calibre player than jonno im afraid to say
We don't need to spend big. We have a top squad, we need to fine tune it with a player here or there, specifically a creative midfielder, and a left back.
If Mancinis future signings are anything like Johnson, fuck me.
GoalkeepersShay Given (IRL) Joe Hart * (ENG) Stuart Taylor (ENG) DefendersDedryck Boyata (BEL) Greg Cunningham (IRE) Javan Vidal (ENG) Joleon Lescott (ENG) Sylvinho (BRA) Wayne Bridge (ENG) Javier Garrido (ESP) Shaleum Logan * (ENG) Nedum Onuoha (ENG) Micah Richards (ENG) Kolo Toure (CIV) Pablo Zabaleta (ARG) MidfieldersAbdisalam Ibrahim (NOR) Adam Johnson (ENG) Gareth Barry (ENG) Patrick Vieira (FRA) Nigel de Jong (NED) Kelvin Etuhu * (NGR) Stephen Ireland (IRL) Michael Johnson (ENG) Vincent Kompany (BEL) Martin Petrov (BUL) Vladimir Weiss* (SVK) Shaun Wright-Phillips (ENG) StrikersEmmanuel Adebayor (TGO) Craig Bellamy (WAL) Valeri Bojinov * (BUL) Felipe Caicedo * (ECU) Jô * (BRA) Benjani Mwaruwari* (ZIM) Robinho * (BRA) Roque Santa Cruz (PRY) Carlos Tevez (ARG)
This is our squad as per official site. Players with * out on loan and expect them to be either sold, released or loaned out again next season. In total 36 players minus the loan players takes us to 28 players. Of the above squad 4 are GYLs leaving a squad of 24 senior players. Of the 24 senior players I can see that Sylvinho might be released and also Petrov. I suspect Viera might get another year. That will take us to 22 players. Squads for next year will be limited to 25 players so on a purely mathematical basis that allows for three players to come in. I think we need another left back and a right back. The third player depending on who is available might be another midfield player but if Johnson is back fully fit can't see it. The third player I suspect might depend on who is available and whether or not our marquee signing Robinho is allowed to leave or not. If for example Torres wants out I wouldn't rule out a hugh bid to get him. IMO I can' t see us signing anyone other than a couple of full backs and even paying over the odds 15m each that will take our spending to around 30m. If we do sell any of the loan players we might recoup half of that so I can see that overall we won't be splashing the cash.
I would be happy with:
Joe hart back
Clichy-left back-17mill
Chiellini-centre back- 20mill
Arteta-centre mid- 20mill
Gerrard-centre mid- 25mill
Modric-cover for left right and centre- 16mill
Villa- striker- 40mill
Balotelli- striker- 15mill
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