aford92

I know, that's what I want. I hate watching us play hoof ball to Cisse.

True, but if Cisse is our only good striker then Pardew will be more tempted to play 1 up front.

Pardew is fine in my book as long as he stops with the 442, kick and run nonsense.

Well Debuchy and Mbiwa have signed, it seems that Gouffran will sign tomorrow and we are favourites to sign Sissoko from Toulouse in the summer along with Haidara. This season has been a massive disappointment but hopefully we will stay up, put it behind us and concentrate on next year. If we can convince Cap'n Colo to stay and keep the other big names we can have a starting line up that looks something like this: --------------------------------Krul---------------------------------- Debuchy--------Coloccini-----------Mbiwa-------------Santon --------------------Tiote-----------------Sissoko-------------------- -----------------------------Cabaye---------------------------------- HBA--------------------------------------------------------Gouffran ------------------------------Cisse------------------------------------ The biggest problem this season has been the lack of depth in the squad but with these signings I think that will change, we would have good options for almost everywhere. GK - Elliot RB - Simpson (assuming he stays), Tavenier and Perch can play there. LB - Haidara, R.Taylor, Ferguson and Perch CB- S.Taylor, Williamson and Perch CM - Anita, Bigi, Gosling, Perch (again) and even Gutierrez can play there if needed. Wing - Gutierrez, Sammy, Obertan, Marveaux and Ferguson ST - Shola, Gouffran can play here and Campbell. Another striker/winger wouldn't go a miss, but that's a solid squad and it's certainly a lot better than what we have now. And if a team like that doesn't qualify for Europe then something is seriously wrong. I know that there's a lot of "if" in this post I try to be an optimist. What do you think? I'm a long time lurker but I finally decided to register, hope to come here regularly.