Realistically your ideal squad next season - Page 15

quote Dazza LFC 8

quote Ishy

quote Dazza LFC 8

quote lazio

Although, I feel, if he was to sign for Liverpool I think he'd be better suited to playing up alongside Torres in 4-4-2 playing a sort of Berbatov-type role, with Torres feeding off his touch, vision and aerial ability.

I agree with what you're saying about Pandev, but tbh thats why I wouldn't want him, we signed Keane to do the same thing, and looked what happened there, personally I feel that there isn't many better partnerships than Gerrard and Torres so to try and split it up an as well as having to split up Masch and Alonso parntership would be a bit stupid. Wouldn't mind him for Rotation though.

Then how do we incorporate another centre forward into the squad, which we clearly need?

Why ?

We dont need to incorparate another striker into the team at all, we only need a striker for back up, thats it. I dont understand why any one after the Robbie Keane signing would think it would be a good idea to change the partnership Gerrard and Torres have.

Note how I said squad.

Well seeing as Arsenal already have a very good squad. I dont see many changes needed, but I reckon this will be the first team next season.

GK: Almunia
RB: Sagna
LB: Clichy
CB: Toure
CB: Gallas
CM: Fabregas
CM: Denilson
RM: Walcott
LM: Nasri
ST: Adebayor
ST: Arshavin

Not different from the first team they have now, but I can see Eboue and Rosicky leaving the club. No idea who they would buy. I know some players I would want but Wenger usually looks for obscure players. We desperatly need another left back seeing as Gibbs isn't good enough yet. And they need another right back aswell.

We have a lot of work to do on our squad if we want to challenge for trophies next year, largely thanks to our director of football Alessio Secco buying about two good players since the calciopoli scandal.

We're fine for goalkeepers at the minute. Not much needs to be said about Buffon and Manninger is a very competent reserve goalkeeper. Chimenti is a muppet but the chances of him playing a match are slim to none. Buffon has been linked with a move away from the club recently in order to raise more money for transfers, which obviously would be devastating for any Juve fan. If the worst comes to the worst and this does happen then I honestly wouldn't mind us making an audacious bid for Julio Cesar.

Defence-wise we are abysmal. Chiellini is brilliant but the partners we have for him aren't particularly great. To be fair to Legrottaglie he has done a good job considering where his career was heading before we brought him back, I just think we could be aiming higher for a first choice centre half. Mellberg has been half decent and I wouldn't really mind if we decided to keep him as back up or move him on as long as we sign someone else either way. Cannavaro is a certainty but I hope he's not the only new face at the back, even if it's a young player to prepare for the season after next. I've been signing Sebastien Bassong's praises all season, maybe he could fit the bill.

Grygera and Molinaro are nothing more than UEFA Cup standard full backs. I would keep the former as back up but we have De Ceglie who could be a quality left back in a few years time, so Moli really should be sent packing. I'd love De Silvestri and Vargas to be made primary transfer targets. If we were to sign them we'd have a very good selection of players in defence.

Buffon
De Silvestri - Cannavaro - Chiellini - Vargas

Manninger
Grygera - Legrottaglie - Bassong - De Ceglie

We look quite likely to sign Diego which means our play-making options are quite strong despite the retirement of Nedved. Even under Ranieri I think Giovinco would be getting plenty of game time so under a new boss he should be starting more often than not. If we can keep Camoranesi fit for most of the season then we only need to worry about signing one or two back up wingers because Salihamidzic and Marchionni simply can't hack this level any more. In the middle hopefully we'll have the aforementioned Diego with Sissoko playing behind him. Zanetti and Marchisio should definitely be kept but I would show Almiron, Tiago and Poulsen the door. Perhaps another decent central midfielder could help but we don't need to waste money on unnecessary players. Ledesma has been mentioned which I'd be happy with, we could also snatch Rosina from Torino if they go down.



We don't need to change our strikers but we probably will. I thought Trezeguet would be forced out but if Ranieri goes he might stay after all. If it proves to be the case that he will leave then there are plenty of strikers around at the moment who could do a job. I read about Lyon being interested in a swap deal involving Trezeguet and Benzema which could be very good for us. Amauri has gone on record as saying he wants to finish his career with us so he won't be going anywhere. Neither, obviously, will Del Piero and hopefully we are sensible enough to keep Iaquinta.

Amauri - Del Piero

Trezeguet - Iaquinta

In summary, this is how our summer transfer activity would pan out in my ideal world:

Ins
Fabio Cannavaro
Sebastien Bassong
Lorenzo De Silvestri
Juan Manuel Vargas
Diego
Alessandro Rosina
Cristian Ledesma

Outs
Cristian Molinaro
Sergio Almiron
Tiago
Christian Poulsen
Hasan Salihamidzic
Marco Marchionni

Squad for Next Season
GK: Gianluigi Buffon
GK: Alex Manninger
GK: Antonio Chimenti
RB: Lorenzo De Silvestri
RB: Zdenek Grygera
LB: Juan Manuel Vargas
LB: Paolo De Ceglie
CB: Giorgio Chiellini
CB: Fabio Cannvaro
CB: Nicola Legrottaglie
CB: Sebastien Bassong
CB: Olof Mellberg
RM: Mauro Camoranesi
RM: Alessandro Rosina
LM: Sebastian Giovinco
LM: Kris Commons
CM: Momo Sissoko
CM: Diego
CM: Cristiano Zanetti
CM: Claudio Marchisio
CM: Cristian Ledesma:
ST: Alessandro Del Piero
ST: Amauri
ST: David Trezeguet
ST: Vincenzo Iaquinta

Along with youngsters like Ekdal, Iago and Rossi who could make an occasional substitute appearance.

I don't see any point in bringing in a new goalkeeper. Foster should be pushing van der Sar for a starting place next season and Kuzsczak is decent back up.

We have three out of four definite starters in Evra, Vidic and Ferdinand. The only position unclear is right-back. As much as I like Gary Neville, I'm just not sure if he's up to the standard any more, so either Wes Brown (who was fantastic last season but injury prone this season), John O'Shea (who has done a capable job this season) or Rafael (who has impressed despite his inexperience) will be right-back next season. We have decent cover in Evans, Brown, O'Shea, Rafael and Fabio depending on who gets the right-back position. Even Hargreaves could be used as a right-back so there's a few options. Simpson looked decent in the games he played for us but he struggled to get games at Blackburn, plus we have a few right-back options so I'm not sure if he has much of a future. I wouldn't necessarily expect us to strengthen the defence.

I'd suggest that we sell Darron Gibson and Lee Martin as I don't think they're up to the standard of the Premier League. Martin has been out on loan a few times and it looks like he doesn't have much of a chance at Old Trafford. Gibson could do with some experience so if he's not sold a loan deal could be done. We have a few options for midfield, but the most problematic position is on the left. We need to decide whether to keep Nani and play him there or play Park on the left side, or even give Tosic a chance. Ronaldo could be employed there and we could look for a new right midfielder. Antonio Valencia could be an option, pacy, tricky and has a good delivery on him. Giggs and Scholes will play less games as they're getting on but they can still be useful squad members. I'd imagine it would be two from: Hargreaves, Anderson, Carrick and Fletcher who play as our central midfield partnership with Giggs and Scholes also options with their experience. If Ronaldo does leave for Madrid we would need a special player to replace him and Ribery springs to mind but he has a hefty price tag and I'm not sure if we'd pay that.

It looks likely that Tevez will leave in the summer and if he does we will need a replacement striker. I'm not Berbatov's biggest fan either and would much rather us keep Tevez but it's not down to me. I think we need a pacy striker who Rooney can play off. Welbeck and Macheda will be decent back-up. I think Macheda looks a better prospect, Welbeck looks a little lightweight and maybe could do with some experience, so possibly a loan deal. I wouldn't mind Benzema coming in if we don't sign Tevez. Manucho has managed two goals for Hull during his loan spell and has looked decent but I'm not sure he's United standard and wouldn't surprise me if he left in the summer. Campbell has shown some potential but then he went on loan to Spurs and he hasn't figured much because they have a few strikers. I think he could be decent back-up for us next season.

Goalkeepers: Edwin van der Sar, Ben Foster, Tomasz Kuzsczak.
Defenders: Gary Neville, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Nemanja Vidic, Fabio, Rafael, John O'Shea, Jonny Evans.
Midfielders: Owen Hargreaves, Cristiano Ronaldo, Anderson, Ryan Giggs, Park Ji-Sung, Zoran Tosic, Michael Carrick, Nani, Paul Scholes, Darren Fletcher, Rodrigo Possebon, Antonio Valencia.
Strikers: Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck, Fraizer Campbell, Carlos Tevez or Karim Benzema, Federico Macheda.

Haha just what I was thinking. Derby... or Juve?

quote sweenEy

Yeah I just wanted to check if anyone was still paying attention by that point.

I'll be honest...I wasn't

Well as an Everton fan we don't have a huge amount of funds and have recently seen Owen slip past us but to be honest huge changes aren't needed, I'd like to nick 4th and get into CL qualifying. I'll go for a classic 4-4-2

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