Monday, May 20, 2013

Summer business

Much has been made about the end of season review which will take place between Pardew, Ashley and Llambias in the coming weeks. Frankly I cannot see how Pardew can keep his job after our terrible performance this season. He has given no indication that he can return us to the business end of the league. For me he needs to be sacked immediately and replaced by either Rafa Benitez or Roberto Martinez. That is the key to our future sucess. I believe we have a good squad who under the right leadership could be back amongst the top 6.

Below I want to give my assessment of what we need to do to get our club out of the mess we currently are sitting in.

Out
Harper
Simpson
Williamson
Gosling
Jonas - or stay as a squad player
Shola

Loaned out
Sammy
Ferguson
Campbell
Dummett
Innman
Newton

In - Any of the following
Andy Carroll        Starter
Romeu Lukaku     Starter
Edin Dzeko          Worth a bid
Shane Long         Upgrade on Gouffran
James McCarthy   Starter
Scott Sinclair       Upgrade on Gouffran
Loic Remy           Starter
Adam Le Fondre   Impact Sub
Andreas Weimann Impact Sub
Steven Caulker     Compete with Taylor
Demba Ba...        IF surplus at Chelsea
Micheal Dawson

I only want us to buy British based player / players with Premiership experience as i feel this is exactly what we are missed this season.

These additions would allow us to have plently of squad coverage and also would allow us to adapt our tactics and formations for each game.

IF we could line up with the following Squad options next year:

(4-3-3)

Krul / Elliot

Santon / M'biwa
M'biwa / Taylor
Colo / Dawson
Debuchy / Haidara

Cabaye / McCarthy
Tiote / Perch
Sissoko / Anita

Ben Arfa / Weimann
Carroll / Cisse / Remy
Sinclair / Long