by ivor_the_injun » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:36 am
To go:
Biscan, Smicer, Diao, Traore. I'd give Diouf until the transfer window next January to pull his finger out - nobody's going to fork anything worth taking for him this summer.
To come in:
Drogba (someone's going to get a bargain with him) or Cisse, Bobo Balde (who I think would be perfect alongside Henchoz), Joe Cole
We need to start assembling a squad that means we've got a bench worth turning to should things not be going our way. Hopefully Pongolle and TLT will really start to come through next season, but you want to be able to have at least two world class attacking players on your bench that you'd put money on to score in the last 30 mins of a match. Heskey and Diouf are not those kind of players, and if they're not playing to the standard of being in the guaranteed first 11, it's a bit pointless having them. That said, I think Heskey's in pretty good form at the moment, so it'd be a bad move to get rid of him at the end of the season, even if we do sign Cisse.