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damjan193 wrote:

maguskwt wrote:I'm afraid, we might have to make do with what we have now... I believe this is it; Henderson, Carroll and Suarez. I think what's happening is, for English players, the other clubs are asking too much, and for foreign players we can't match the wages offered by Chelsea, man city, united... Etc...

This is it guys... Stop dreaming...

I wouldn't agree on that. Sure, we might not sign players such as Aguero, but players like Adam, Downing, Clichy etc. are definitely a possibility. As for Mata, he'll be a bit harder to sign, but IMO I don't think that we need him, doubt that he is the right one to play in the position that we need him to play in and I think that he'll find it hard to get use to the Prem.

maguskwt wrote:

damjan193 wrote:

maguskwt wrote:I'm afraid, we might have to make do with what we have now... I believe this is it; Henderson, Carroll and Suarez. I think what's happening is, for English players, the other clubs are asking too much, and for foreign players we can't match the wages offered by Chelsea, man city, united... Etc...

This is it guys... Stop dreaming...

I wouldn't agree on that. Sure, we might not sign players such as Aguero, but players like Adam, Downing, Clichy etc. are definitely a possibility. As for Mata, he'll be a bit harder to sign, but IMO I don't think that we need him, doubt that he is the right one to play in the position that we need him to play in and I think that he'll find it hard to get use to the Prem.

But are we gonna pay 15 million for Adam when it looks like Aquilani's gonna come back? Are we gonna pay 20 million for Downing when Maxi, Suarez and Arbeloa can play there? And are we gonna pay 10 million for Clichy when Glenn Johnson, Arbeloa and Flanagan can play there? That's an outlay of 45 million... The the above targets might improve the squad... but are they worth it? We might as well wait for a very good player like Mata when he come available and spend abit more on a single player and get higher quality... just like we did with Suarez...

maguskwt wrote:

damjan193 wrote:

maguskwt wrote:I'm afraid, we might have to make do with what we have now... I believe this is it; Henderson, Carroll and Suarez. I think what's happening is, for English players, the other clubs are asking too much, and for foreign players we can't match the wages offered by Chelsea, man city, united... Etc...

This is it guys... Stop dreaming...

I wouldn't agree on that. Sure, we might not sign players such as Aguero, but players like Adam, Downing, Clichy etc. are definitely a possibility. As for Mata, he'll be a bit harder to sign, but IMO I don't think that we need him, doubt that he is the right one to play in the position that we need him to play in and I think that he'll find it hard to get use to the Prem.

But are we gonna pay 15 million for Adam when it looks like Aquilani's gonna come back? Are we gonna pay 20 million for Downing when Maxi, Suarez and Arbeloa can play there? And are we gonna pay 10 million for Clichy when Glenn Johnson, Arbeloa and Flanagan can play there? That's an outlay of 45 million... The the above targets might improve the squad... but are they worth it? We might as well wait for a very good player like Mata when he come available and spend abit more on a single player and get higher quality... just like we did with Suarez...

killerp wrote:

desmdlow wrote:Enrique for me.. I think we should settle the lb problem first and foremost. And he looks like a consistent player with bags of skill for a defender. His early cross are delicious. Caroll will love those and Suarez will be eager to get on any knock down from those early balls, making our play up field faster.

Good point, if the formation will have Carroll as the frontman. With his price it would be hard to not see that happening.

I hope we are not going to resort to long balls though
...that would be......painful to watch.

maypaxvobiscum wrote:

Greavesie wrote:

Calum wrote:We definitely need another striker, but I can't think of any names for that position at the moment.

Connor Wickham 

Crespo is available on a free transfer i believe. signing him makes sense. firstly, due to his age, he won't be demanding first team football hence he is an able back-up to Carroll and Suarez. secondly, the younger strikers would be able to learn from him during training as he has got a vast amount of experience.

would love to see Kranjcar here as well. he is awfully underrated by many fans but he is just 25 and is really talented.

Redman in wales wrote:

killerp wrote:

Redman in wales wrote:I think kenny will opt for a 4-3-3 with 4-4-2 as an option. Mata doesn’t really fit in to these but what would work extremely well for mata (and suarez) is this:


                                 Reina

                     Carra     Kelly     Agger

  Johnson                    Lucas                      LWB

                                Gerrard
                  Mata                     Suraez
                                Carroll


With Johnson and a new LB given licence (and encouraged) to get down the flanks as much as possible to provide width. As well as Suarez and Mata drifting out when they need to

I don’t think we’ll see 3 at the back very often, but that’s a great way to accommodate and get the best out of Suarez and Mata

What if more players arrive like, downing, Adam, perhaps a Gago, what formation would you use then?

Just like I said in the first line of my post, I think we'll play 4-3-3 or 4-4-2, depending on what players we bring in and have available at the time. The formation above was simply trying to accommodate Mata's talents, but I dont think we;ll see it often. Downing would play on the wing in a 4-4-2. There is no space for Gago what-so-ever if we buy Adam as surely he'd be behind Gerrard, Lucas, Meireles, Adam, Henderson and that's assuming we'll sell Aquilani

maypaxvobiscum wrote:did anyone see Jeffren's goal for the under21s? it was really good! here's the goals from the game