We will not finish top 6...

[Paulmcfc2703]

I think it's a good point about the importance of experience and maturity when it comes to defenders. Johnmc is right. No 20 year old defender is the finished article.

i agree pam my comment was originally in reply to moomba asking about whether i thought we should sign 'the next big thing'. I think we should sign Toure and another centre with experience as well as players such as Boateng, Costa or Veloso .

 

[alera]

I think everyone will agree its a very poor showing and will be completely Hughes fault if we dont finish top 6 with the amount of money that has been spent.

However I expect us to finish top 6 this season.

Personally I would have liked to have seen us in for Bruno Alves. Hes about as close to top draw thats available and might come and could be as good as Calvaho in our league.

 

[The Doctor]

If Toure and Upson is our CB pairing. Apparently our pursuit of Upson is gathering pace. Shocking.

Shouldn't your sign in name have an 'i' after the first 't'............... sorry only joking.....the pairing would be top 4 in my view!

 

[Fuzzmaster101]

Yup have to agree on this.......although we have destabilised some of our rivals eg Barry, it does rather annoy me to be paying over the odds for players.

It is for this exact reason why we need to start looking abroad, especially for defenders. no point paying 30 mil for lescott when he is worth 15 MAX!!! Id rather have proven chammps league defenders who fancy trying out the premiership for size, Mexes, Luisao, Maicon, lahm, metzelder

This is very very funny! Metzelder is a bad BAD player! He's dreadful for Real and equally dreadful for Germany. Hopeless! Mexes isn't good enough and I don't rate Lahm these days either (used to look good now looks bad) Maicon is a RB. That just leaves Luisao who is half decent but may be a major gamble which may not come off. Not a great list of possibles then ;)

 

[AntMcfc]

The thought of Toure and Upson as our CB pairing makes me sick.

 

[brian the blue]

On paper if we get lescott + say... Bruno Alves(hopefully), we would be a top 5 side on paper. But im not convinced that the team will gel that well, especially with hughes in charge, my expectations for this season aren't as lofty as some of the people on here.

 

[Left Peg]

The thought of Toure and Upson as our CB pairing makes me sick.

I think it's the idea of Upson mate!

 

[Snoogy]

I think we will finish 7th. Nothing to do with whoever we get in at the back, I just can't see our usual inconsistant performances ending this season.
Cynical mondays!

So Ade, Tevez, Barry, Santa Cruz, Tourre and Lescott will make no difference to next season in terms of consistency? This is what you are giving us to understand? And Robhino, Kompany, Given, Zab, Weiss, Onuoho, and Superman will be no more effective with better players around them than they were last year?

What a rag.

Right, everyone who disagrees with you is a rag? I've got a right to my opinion, and if you'd bothered to read my post I was saying the problem is with the manager (and therefore tactics and motivation) and specifically not the players. I said the players we had last year were good enough to do better in some games and ended up losing.

 

[The Doctor]

What a doom & gloom thread........................I'll leave you guys to it to cheer each other up.................NOT

 

[johnmc]

The proof is in the pudding really. Villa used the money we gave them for Barry to sign downing.

If we give £20m for Lescott to Everton they might try and replicate what they did with him (and arguably Jagielka) in buying the best defender in the Championship, no idea who that is btw and hoping to come up trumps again.

Or they might manage to buy Chielinni for the same amount of money and the arguments will start as to who is best