Scottish Mag 3 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 God knows if Ashley is going to dig deep into his pockets in the summer to sort this mess out (though if those ITK are correct he will have a fair wedge to spend). If you were KK and had 50 million to spend, who would you like to sign? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 £50m is nowhere near enough. The windfalls all clubs will get and major backers some clubs have means that to catch up it needs to be a lot more IMO. I think it needs to be nearer £100m which won't happen of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil 0 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 At the moment I'm so worried I'd rather think about how we maintain our Premier League status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Who we'd like and who will come is two entirely different matters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney 0 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 £50 will just be enough to get us top half if spent well. Would obviously need to be supplimented with sales. In: - Left back depending on whatever is up with Enrique Centre back - SWP if possible. Another midfielder with pace & creativity Holding midfielder - Striker = Out : Any of : Rozehnal Carr Butt Barton Smith Geremi Viduka = To be honest though, there's very few players who I care less if they are still here. Faye, Beye, (a fit)Given, (a fit)Owen. N'Zogbia if he cheers up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Lord knows. It is a sobering thought to think that after hundreds of millions of pounds spent over the years, we now have a squad that is little better than the mackems or smogs, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Even if you put it on the bin dippers to stuff us at 1/2 (about what betfair will offer), we'd still only have 75m and that's probably not enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stevie Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Kadula 3.5m he must be good if Juventus have been tracking him for so long, the new Nedved? Richard Dunne free Wes Brown free give him 80s class DEFENDER, he doesn't fuck about thinking he's Beckenbauer, he defends Asamoah Gyan fuck knows how much he'd cost but he's been class every time I've seen him Luka Modric 20m - everyone will be after him but if we get in first you never know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hard to give names when the job is so big and we don't know what league we will be playing in next season, but I would say a whole new midfield, at least 2 new strikers and at least 3 defenders, oh and a new keeper while we are at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hard to give names when the job is so big and we don't know what league we will be playing in next season, but I would say a whole new midfield, at least 2 new strikers and at least 3 defenders, oh and a new keeper while we are at it. Can we get fries and a physio with that to go please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12456 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 The way it is going it's starting to look like we'll need a whole new eleven these players are getting embarrassed every weekend yet still think they are great. We should start looking at some of the youth you never know they might come off and might be able to get a place in the team for next season, at least it would be less players to buy. I agree with Asprilla btw I don't see £50m being enough especially with all that new TV money coming in, I'm also starting to wonder about Ashley's commitment yes he cleared the debt but that simply made us more sell-able, I just hope if he wants to sell he does it soon so someone else can come in and give KK funds and if he doesn't want to sell then he actually backs his manager in the transfer market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 For £50m to be enough we'd have to bring in 5 £10m players who all turn out to be top class because as a minimum we need a new centre half, a new right winger, two central midfielders and striker. I don't have a fucking clue who though and when you see the likes of Chopra go for £5m and Darren Bent go for £16 it shows you just how difficult the job would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 8870 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I still think that just a couple of players actually are needed to make a big difference. Especially an attacking flair player. So I'd spunk the majority of the money on this position. Preferably Modric. I've seen him twice in the matches against Bremen and Hamburg where you could see him in comparison to Diego and van der Vaart. He'll cost big money (20-25m I guess) but be worth every penny imho. Add to it a composed defensive midfielder with some passing ability (I'd go for Kehl from Dortmund whose contract is running out), an organising central defender and a left back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie-Geordie 0 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Crouch, Arteta, Carrick, Wright-Phillips, Dunne. But that pushes the realms of realisticness to the very limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Wes Brown "class defender" Fucking hell man, he's garbage. But still better than what we have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norbert Colon 0 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I still think that just a couple of players actually are needed to make a big difference. Especially an attacking flair player. So I'd spunk the majority of the money on this position. Preferably Modric. I've seen him twice in the matches against Bremen and Hamburg where you could see him in comparison to Diego and van der Vaart. He'll cost big money (20-25m I guess) but be worth every penny imho. Add to it a composed defensive midfielder with some passing ability (I'd go for Kehl from Dortmund whose contract is running out), an organising central defender and a left back. Agree totally - modric is excellent and i would ally him with a player like Arshavin on the right - and as you say a couple of decent buys or frees in the centre mid, CD and LB area and it would be a hell of a start - after all take gerrard and torres out of the liverpool side and what you are left with is pretty average Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaser 1054 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Who would come to us in our current circumstance? Nobody from the likes of Everton/Liverpool/Utd/Spurs would be interested. £50m is nowhere near enough. This needs to be around £75m mark and even then we are taking that on the premise that we can actually attract players in. For the remainder of the season, I would be looking to give the youth more of a run in the side. When the chips were down with Roeder, they pushed us into a top half position and at least had some fire in their bellies. The senior players at the moment are an absolute disgrace to the shirt and dont seem interested in putting the effort in. Theyve earned their money regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 We don't need to spend mega-bucks. We just need to be as astute as possible. Look at the shite we've spent far too much on in recent times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8989 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 We don't need to spend mega-bucks. We just need to be as astute as possible. Look at the shite we've spent far too much on in recent times. Hopefully the young lads we brought in (Zamblera, Kadar and Tozer) are the tip of the iceberg, Wise in his new role should bring a brand new scouting system to Newcastle, so we no longer rely on Gobshite telling us that this player is amazing, simply to line his own sodding pocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Lazaru 0 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 As has been said who we/Keegan want and who can be talked into coming will be interesting to see. I think and hope what keegan will try to do is very early on make as big a signing as he can as a statement to other people out there that we/he means business and hopefully that will attract others to join. But we have the big problem that loads of clubs now have cash to burn and many of them will be in europe. Also we have to hope KK can supplement what he's given by getting some people out the club, like Sir Bobby did when he took over. I'd definitely want an attacking midfielder and defensive midfielder, a centrehalve and another striker as priorities, but there are many posotions we could improve in lets be honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 8870 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 As for strikers. I'm just listening to the Stuttgart cup game on the radio. Throwing in a bit of national bias I'd like us to go for Mario Gomez from Stuttgart. 23 goals in the last 24 matches. Quite an amazing record for German football. Even better than Toni's. He's only 22 and been brilliant for two seasons now. Only a matter of time until the big clubs are seriously looking at signing him (Juve already enquired last summer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 As for strikers. I'm just listening to the Stuttgart cup game on the radio. Throwing in a bit of national bias I'd like us to go for Mario Gomez from Stuttgart. 23 goals in the last 24 matches. Quite an amazing record for German football. Even better than Toni's. He's only 22 and been brilliant for two seasons now. Only a matter of time until the big clubs are seriously looking at signing him (Juve already enquired last summer). Can you compile a dosier..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirrus1881 0 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I know this a bad source for referring too but after reading in this weeks nuts magazine (i was bored) we have the smallest teams in the premier league and this is not helping us as either an attacking or defending unit. So we really need some height injected into the team (im not thinking crouch, all though wouldnt mind too much) but it you look at what carew done to us a couple of weeks ago at villa it shows we have nobody to deal with that sort of threat or to cause a similar type of threat themselves. I would also say the crossing ability seriously needs to be worked on if that is to be the case as no use having a 6 footer if the crosses go no where near them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken 119 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 £50m is absolutely peanuts. Remember KK spent £50m at Man City the year they got promoted and they came 9th. The quality of our squad now and Man City's the year they were in the Championship before they got promoted bears a strinking resemblence. £50m would be needed on our midfield alone, and that's minimum. But then you need to look at our defenders, strikers (of which we need to replace a minimum of two) and maybe a gk if Shay cannot overcome his chronic groin problem. Splash the cash Ash... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janu 0 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 (edited) Almost the same as I posted in Parky's "Summer fun"-thread, but here it comes IN (10): Scott Carson (Liverpool - £8m), Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk - £4m), Daniel Van Buyten (Bayern Munich - £4m), Arthur Boka (Stuttgart - £5m), David Bentley (Blackburn - £12m), Michael Carrick (Man United - £12m), Esteban Granero (Real Madrid - £7m), Steven Fletcher (Hibernian - £2m), Forward 1 (£9m), Forward 2 (£14m). IF N’Zogbia (£8-10m) wants out: Aiden McGeady (Celtic - £8-10m) or Diego Capel (Sevilla - £10m). First XI GK: Scott Carson DR: Darijo Srna DC: Habib Beye DC: Daniel Van Buyten DL: Arthur Boka MR: David Bentley MC: Michael Carrick MC: Esteban Granero ML: Charles N'Zogbia FW1: Asamoah Gyan (Udinese - £9m)/ Óscar Cardozo (Benfica - £9m)/ Danny Koevermans (PSV - £9m)/ Nicklas Bendtner (Arsenal - £9m) FW2: Klaas Jan Huntelaar (Ajax Amsterdam - £14m)/ Diego Milito (Real Zaragoza - £14m)/ Mario Gomez (Stuttgart - £14m) + Squad: GK: Krul, Harper DC/DR/DL: Faye, Taylor, Edgar, Enrique, Kadar, Tozer MC/MR/ML: Emre, Barton, Geremi, Milner, Duff, Lua-Lua FW: Fletcher, Carroll, Zamblera OUT (10): Martins - £10-12m, Owen - £6-8m, Smith - £4m, Given - £6-8m, Rozehnal - £2m, Ameobi - £2-3m, Viduka - £2m, Cacapa - £500k, Butt - £500k. Total (transfers in (£70-75m) - transfers out (£35-40m)): £35-40m Edited February 27, 2008 by janu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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