Summer Transfers

~~Clowgon~~ · 30-06-2009, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Immenseman

yeah, 4 years undisclosed fee. wonder how much. i heard £14 £16 £18 and £20 mil, dno which one is right

Loving that shirt.

I hope he turns out to be a good buy.

Jack.Lfc · 30-06-2009, 11:09 PM

Apparently ruud van nistleroy was in Liverpool airport today, looks like he's off to blackburn.

Flamedragon3 · 01-07-2009, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by Browney

Ok, sure. I'll give you the choice of Robinho, Santa Cruz, Bellamy, Evans, Bojinov, Caicedo or Vassel.

Well if were going to be fighting for the top four next season we need a substitute striker that can score and the strikers we currently have aren't all that capable of doing that. Besides, Hughes is selling a dozen of our players. Vassel is looking to go to Turkey, Caicedo is looking for another club, Bojinov hasn't managed to settle into the premier league, Benjani is just not good enough, Evans is too young at the moment. Leaving Bellamy and Santa Cruz as the only two strikers that I would be happy to play/have on the bench. Besides, Hughes wants players to be playing well to stay in the squad.

Santa Cruz is already training hard and has said how he wants to try his best to out perform Tevez ad Eto'o if they join so he can stay on the starting 11. This is exactly what we want in our club, and as Robinho didn't play well away, at least there are now other players that can replace him in away games, or perhaps he may just now perform better away so to stay in the starting 11.

Like I said, it's not just that, your squad is incredibly unbalanced. See how many strikers you have? And how many defenders can you name? Zabaleta and Kompany are good players. And yet when you sold Corluka that was a step backwards and instead you signed another striker in Bellamy.

Corluka turned out not to be too much of a step back, besides we bought Zabaleta to take over his role, and he did much better and has turned out to be a brilliant player for our squad. Your also missing Berti who we bought to possibly replace any of the back four if needed, as he could play in any of these roles. (where we are missing Sun Jihai

)

Also you say how we have too many players, which can't be too much of a bad thing for us, as long as we can pay their wages then its no problem for us at all? And if they're unhappy because they're not playing, then they will have to all play better/harder to get in the squad, thus making the current player in their position try to play better and work harder to keep their place, its a really good thing that we need to keep our team strong.

GK -Given can be replaced by Stuart Taylor
RB - Richards can be replaced by Zabaleta
CB - Onouha can be replaced by Kompany
CB - Dunne(or possibly Lescott) can be replaced by Kompany or another central defender we may buy
LB - Bridge can be replaced by Garrido or Ball (but they aren't too good)
CDM - Barry can be replaced by De Jong or Kompany
RW - Wright-Phillips can be replaced by Elano (if Elano stays)
LW - Robinho can be replaced by Petrov or a striker
CAM - Ireland can be replaced by a striker or Elano
STx2 - Last two roles will possibly be fought between Eto'o, Tevez and Santa Cruz if all three were to join.

Now I would be happy with that squad, especially that there are players that can easily replace any injured, and mainly to make most of our players have to work to keep their name in the starting 11. This could drastically improve our perfermance which is what we will need if we want to get a top four finish as that will take a lot of work to break into.

CHA!NGANG · 01-07-2009, 06:28 AM

Instead of buying Eto you should buy a new LB, and new CB (Maybe Lescott) and a new CAM. If you did all that first, and then wanted to buy a new striker then k, but no point just buying a row of strikers.