by Cypry »
02 Jul 2013 18:04
Barry the bird boggler We need a top striker, a good, promising, attacking midfielder and a young up and coming left back.
We also need to sell a keeper, a right back, a central midfielder (or perhaps 2) and a couple of attacking options.
I fully expect to see us playing 4-2-3-1 this season, so I suspect the striker will depend largely on what happens with Pog and Alfie - with those two and Blackman / Samuel for backup I can't see another striker coming in, so I think an incoming striker will signal that either Pog or Alfie is off...
It's a similar situation with the #10 - as has been mentioned on the Wingers thread in the team board, it's possible that we'll play with three interchangeable attacking midfield players, rather than an out and out #10 - given that we have Jobi, Kebe, HRK, McLeary and Drenthe, and Obita as backup we've got 3 from 6 with at least Jobi, HRK and Drenthe all capable of playing off a main striker.
In defensive midfield we've now got Williams/Karacan/Carrico/Leigertwood, at RB Kelly/Gunter, CB we've got Morrison/Pearce/Mariappa/Gorkks - LB is the only one I can see a gap with no specialist cover for Bridge, but with Cummings still around, we'd still have cover at RB if Kelly were to fill in at LB again...
In honesty I'd be pretty happy going into the season with what we have, but I reckon any more incoming players might be dependent on departures...
