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Within the realms of possibility which players would you bring in to your football club for next season if you could and who would go ???
Here goes....And no DOHHHHHHH I wont get rid of Fergie lol.
Would get rid of Berbatov, Foster, Gary Neville, Carrick. Brown, Hargreaves....love em but bye bye.
Would buy Drogba (if he'd come), Glen Johnson, Wright Phillips. Tevez (lol) Milner, Lennon. Essien.
Will probably change my mind after the world cup lol.
Here goes....And no DOHHHHHHH I wont get rid of Fergie lol.
Would get rid of Berbatov, Foster, Gary Neville, Carrick. Brown, Hargreaves....love em but bye bye.
Would buy Drogba (if he'd come), Glen Johnson, Wright Phillips. Tevez (lol) Milner, Lennon. Essien.
Will probably change my mind after the world cup lol.
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As for Berbatov, its a shame they never kept the receipt.
Fergie has not made many bad signings over the years, but even the most knowledgable Utd fan would agree that he is a duck-egg.....and a reassuringly expensive one at that.
Drogba was naffed off pre season and i wanted Fergie to swoop in and poach him with the Ronaldo money. If he had the league would be different i think. He also should have signed Johnson (imo)
I understand everyone hating Neville but if you supported man u you would love him, probably for the same reasons that you hate him if that makes any sense whatsoever lol.
Would put a bet on that there will be a few "articles" over the summer involving Berbatov...
"I may have been a bit hasty"
"I was pressurised into moving and the price tag never helped me"
Really annoys me personally when players like that are brought to the greatest league in the world (Berbatov WAS class at Spurs) but then totally knife-in-the-back the clubs who "made them".
As a Newcastle Utd fan......a combination of NOT paying over-inflated prices anymore, timed with a World Cup year thrown in...(where we have traditionally been "proper mugs") buying donkeys on the back of ONE performance pleases me no end.
We have unearthed a LEGEND in Chris Hughton.
Please DO NOT fukc it up Mr Ashley......
If we're talking realms of possibility then i'll be more than happy if we get rid of the following:
Tom Hicks and George Gillett(pictured below)
Rafa Benitez
Insua
Kyrgiakos
Lucas(please, please get rid of this lightweight)
Ngog
What a mess Rafa has made. So much so that on Super Sunday a while ago Ian St.John was nearly reduced to tears when they were talking about the sorry situation. £20m for Aquilani with the Alonso money. He may be gifted but he's another lightweight with a terrible injury record. Why on earth did he not pay £2.5m for Kranjcar? Then he would've had another £17.5m to spend instead of complaining about a lack of funds. Harry Redknapp can sniff out a bargain. Hats off to Spurs, they're on the crest of a wave at the moment, Harry's a top manager. Gets the best out of players and lets them express themselves.
If Airwalker gives me the green light to go loco and spend money we haven't got then i'll post a great team. If not then i'll do some wheeling and dealing myself and see what i can patch together.
Failing this just do whatever. We all know what we would do with money being no object, but like the politicians, if your gonna spend it say where your getting it from.
You have made some excellent points about Liverpool and Raphas decision making. The players that he has got rid of and just missed out on is a factor as well.
I also think that perhaps even Hypia went a season too soon and was missed as much as Alonso.
Possibly wangle Ireland from Man City as part of the deal too, we need a guy who will run into the box.
also on the way out.. Degen, Kyrigiaokos (he's ok but he concedes corners as if he has a bet on most matches). Would like to get rid of more but the squad is too small for anything like that.
buying in we need Fernando Llorente from Bilbao or Stephen Kiesling for Leverkusion, and another stiker liek Carlton Cole who can be a back up but able to come intot he first team and not leave us looking like a League 1 outfit like N'Gog.
Midfield we need like I say Ireland, Parker or Nuri Sahin.
also we need to promote this kid Amoo from our reserves to play on the right wing, he is amazing would let us play Kuyt as a striker.
Everything aside though, if Chris Hughton said he was after signing Deirdre Barlow, I would not disagree with him. He has got a MASSIVE managerial future ahead of him, just hope it is on Tyneside.
Yogi Must Stay ;0)
If dorgba ever signed for us id cry myslef to sleep every night untill he left, the guys a t£sser and i dont care how many goals he scores id rather loose than have him play for us.
I do agree milner would be a good signing, and i think Joe Cole on a free will be a great signing for whoever gets him.
We need a 2nd world class striker, torres might leave liverpool as no cham league but cant see him ever comming to us, really dont think were gonig to have that much money to spend either
I would like to choose with no money worries but i can't. I like johnson and phillips so thats just me. However i hate drogba too but whats that got to do with it?
He has never acted like he hates Man u, unlike Torres, Gerrard and others.
He is imo the best striker in the world by a mile and except perhaps Rooney, he is better than any Man u player.
Was hoping to keep Torres and Gerrard but if getting rid is the only way to transform the club then so be it. I've seen figures of £60-70m quoted for Torres so if Man City want him that badly then we could do worse than getting a players and cash deal off them. I'm with Miyagi on getting Ireland in, seems surplus to requirements now even though he was their best player just 1 year ago. I read somewhere that Martin O'Neill was interested in snapping him up for £4m. Hard to believe but what a steal that would be. So taking valuations and unsettled players into account i would propose the following deal to Man City: Stephen Ireland, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Craig Bellamy and £40m for Torres.
I'll sell Steven Gerrard to Real Madrid for £30m. This gives me £70m to play with. Lack of Champions League action next season hinders who i can bring in so the names obviously aren't going to be top drawer. Roger Johnson has been magnificent this season so i reckon i could tempt him away from Birmingham for £8m. In my opinion Carragher isn't good enough for our 1st team anymore. I'd bring in Gary Cahill to replace him at a cost of £12m. Bolton value him at £20m but that's insane. It's hard to find a decent left back. Can't understand why Rafa got rid of Stephen Warnock and brought Insua through. The best we could hope for is probably Maynor Figueroa. Wigan value him at £8m so i'd be willing to meet that. West Ham say that Scott Parker is not for sale but i'd test their resolve with a £10m bid. Maybe they wouldn't want to go through with it but i think Parker would struggle to turn down the chance of a move to a bigger club. This leaves me with £32m to spend on a striker. I'd bring Robbie Keane back. Superb player, didn't get a chance under Rafa, seems to be out of favour at Spurs so a £10m bid should do the trick. So here's my team for next season:
Reina
G.Johnson R.Johnson Cahill Figueroa
Mascherano
Wright-Phillips Riera
Ireland
Bellamy Keane
If i needed to go defensive then it would be more like this:
Reina
G.Johnson R.johnson Cahill Figueroa
Mascherano
Kuyt Parker Bellamy
Ireland
Keane
If the Liverpool chairman does happen to read this then i'll be willing to do the job for just £1m per year. ;-)