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if you were given £50m to sort this squad out


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scenario for you.

 

fat fred finds that his shares in greggs bakery have octupled in value and he offers in an unusually nice gesture for you the fan to advise him on who should stay and who should go.

 

you have £50m to spend and can get rid of or hire any player in world football

 

who would your first 16 be?

 

and would you have roeder as manager

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I would send Roeder back to working with the academy, I'd tear up the contracts of Luque, Carr, Bramble, Babayaro and Terry Mac, I'd appoint Co Adriaanse as manager and instruct him to assemble his own backroom staff.

 

Signings would be:

 

Leighton Baines.

 

Nikola Žigić

 

Eddie Johnson

 

Jaques Faty

 

Craig Gordon

 

Morton Gamst Pedersen

 

Rafinha

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Presuming you'd sell Given? Because Gordon will not sign for a team just to sit on the bench, what with him being the best British keeper and all....

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Baines/Bridge

Curtis Davies

Dean Ashton

Giles Barnes

 

I think that these would all be solid, realistic signings. Can't think of a suitable right back off the top of my head, but Roeder has supposedly identified Barnes and Davies, who are young and highly rated, getting regular first team football in the Championship.

 

The main thing is really rebuilding the defence around Given and Taylor(deserves a chance to learn from a reliable centre back IMO).

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Baines/Bridge

Curtis Davies

Dean Ashton

Giles Barnes

 

I think that these would all be solid, realistic signings. Can't think of a suitable right back off the top of my head, but Roeder has supposedly identified Barnes and Davies, who are young and highly rated, getting regular first team football in the Championship.

 

The main thing is really rebuilding the defence around Given and Taylor(deserves a chance to learn from a reliable centre back IMO).

 

I think we're crying out for a top class central midfielder too. Agree with you on Bridge, Davies and Ashton though. Not seen enough of Barnes to comment.

 

£8m on Lampard in Summer too :blink:

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I haven't seen Barnes either, but I hope he could come in and do what Jenas did here. A couple of seasons of hard graft and hopefully have a decent player on our books. Without the goldfish crap either.

 

I also agree about a central attacking midfielder. I feel that Emre/Milner or Dyer should be given the opportunity to make the spot their's.

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first thing i'd do is overhaul the backroom staff from manager to the physio to scouts to tea lady.

 

mutual termination of the the following players contracts at the end of the season: luque, carr, babayaro, shola, ramage, pattison

 

allow the contracts of le sib, pav, moore and bramble to expire.

 

first team squad is then:

 

given

harper

krul

 

huntington

edgar

taylor

 

duff

butt

solano

milner

parker

emre

nzogbia

 

dyer

owen

martins

 

spunk the rest on defenders.

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I would ask Arsene Wenger to name his price.

 

Selling the ground as well are we ? :blink:

 

are you bothered about tradition mate ?

 

Seriously. It doesn't bother me in the slightest.

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Out

Srnicek - Released

Carr - 500k

Bramble - 500k

Pattison - Released

Duff - £5m

Ameobi - £1m

Sibierski - Released

 

In

Cicinho - £5m

Emanuelson - £5m

Kompany - £8m

Halford - £3m

Arteta - £8m

Ashton - £8m

 

Squad

Given, Harper

 

Cicinho, Solano

Taylor, Onyewu

Kompany, Edgar

Emanuelson, Babayaro

 

Milner, Halford

Butt, Parker

Arteta, Emre

N'Zogbia, Luque

 

Owen, Ashton

Martins, Dyer

 

£20m left to get Wenger.

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Out

 

Srnicek - Released

Carr - £1m to Celtic

Bramble - £1.5m to Ipswich

Pattison - Released

Ameobi - £3m to Derby

Sibierski - Retired

Duff - £5m

 

In

 

Diop - £5m

Baines - £7m

Cahill - £13m

Fred - £17

Davies - £9m

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Think you might need more than 50 Mill to sort this lot out.

 

I'd keep about 2 to 3 players max of the current squad

 

Given

Martins

Owen

 

edit:forgot about Zog so i'd keep those 4

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Think you might need more than 50 Mill to sort this lot out.

 

I'd keep about 2 to 3 players max of the current squad

 

Given

Martins

Owen

 

edit:forgot about Zog so i'd keep those 4

 

I think you expect a little too much!

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I'd sign Greg Halford, Curtis Davis, Bale, Barnes, Nugent and Ashton. I'd also put the feelers out about Woodgate returning. If I was appointing a manager I'd go for Hiddink and offer him complete control (but I don't think that plus £50mil would be enough to persuade him).

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Think you might need more than 50 Mill to sort this lot out.

 

I'd keep about 2 to 3 players max of the current squad

 

Given

Martins

Owen

 

edit:forgot about Zog so i'd keep those 4

 

I think you expect a little too much!

 

This thread is a fantasy,so was my reply,i'll get used to the shite one day,even tho it's been a while.

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Give to the Labour Party as an interest-free loan, in exchange for:

 

A knighthood for our new Youth Development manager, Sir Dario Gradi.

 

Allowing standing on the terraces,

 

Allowing the drinking of alcoholic beverages in the seated areas,

 

Awarding us the right to open a Supercasino,

 

and changing the listed status of the buildings behind the East Stand into a demolition order.

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Give to the Labour Party as an interest-free loan, in exchange for:

 

A knighthood for our new Youth Development manager, Sir Dario Gradi.

 

Allowing standing on the terraces,

 

Allowing the drinking of alcoholic beverages in the seated areas,

 

Awarding us the right to open a Supercasino,

 

and changing the listed status of the buildings behind the East Stand into a demolition order.

 

 

If only!

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