Summer Transfers

[}-m-a-c-c-a-{]

I think we need to give Garbutt or Bidwell a chance next season for cup games because Baines must play more than any other player and our solution is to play a right back there!

If they aren't good enough then we need to pay cash, hopefully Moyes can spend wisely again.

[christiffa25]

To realistically challenge that top 4-6 next season....

Pienaar and drenthe would need to be made permanent. Prob Donovan or someone else simlar too would be needed. But maybe between Coleman,Barkley and guaye we could cover injuries ect. Could we reley on drenthe every week?

We would need to KEEP all are central mids, you need a squad so Fellani, Gibson and rodwell would all be needed to challenge for the 2 CM positions.
We'd then have ossie, Cahill and Barkley challenging for the ACM/ off the striker position, which I feel is good strong options.

Apart from cover for baines I think we generally ok in defence. Coleman needs to be pushed to make the RB spot his. Good mix of senior and youth.

Alot is going to depend on how good jellavic is in the striking department. If he turns out to be a real good player are options ain't looking that bad. Cover from straq, vic and vellios plus the young Connor coming through. If he's average at best the that's a problem and we'd be needing to invest again.

My conclusion:
If the loans are made permanent and new and young players come good and are a success... Well were not looking in bad fettle. I think a couple of astute free signings or bargain deals by moyes in the summer could be the start of a new exciting team.

[C-R-A-I-G]

I dont even think we would need to spend money on transfers past the players on loan as the quality of free transfers available in the summer is good. That will allow us to keep the likes of Rodwell or Fellaini Id hope. We could get:

Figueroa
Hoilett
Rodellega

I think that added to what we would have would give us the strength and depth to be able to put out a decent team throughout the whole of the season. 

[Sir Stealth]

I think I'd be happy enough just to make Pienaar, Drenthe and Straq permanent. No idea what type of few would be required to get Straq but I imagine it will be about 4 or 5 mil for Pienaar.Whether Drenthe can be relied upon or not, the fact that he would be free makes him well worth that risk. When he gets it right he's unplayable, and sometimes he does get it right!

[bluedavey]

I dont even think we would need to spend money on transfers past the players on loan as the quality of free transfers available in the summer is good. That will allow us to keep the likes of Rodwell or Fellaini Id hope. We could get:

Figueroa
Hoilett
Rodellega

I think that added to what we would have would give us the strength and depth to be able to put out a decent team throughout the whole of the season. 

Would take all 3 of these but doubt Figueroa would come to sit on the bench, Hoillet unfortunately would have teams with more to offer than us after him but do think Rodellega would be realistic.

Would like see us go back for the deals for Manolas (free), Pranjic (free), tie up the loan deals and bring in Rodellega (free). Hopefully this would mean not having to see anybody.  

[Lady Boi Blue]

As bad as it sounds I would be gutted if we don't sell rodders in the summer as we are still atleast 2-3 players short of challenging for the top 6 imo, rodwell and felliani are both defensive minded midfielders and we are in desperate need of a creative cm, if we got around £20 mill gor rodders I would be made up to sign pienaar for say £3 mil, kranjcar for say £7 mil to be our creative cm alongside felliani and the rest on a £10 mil bid for a top class striker like barrios or defoe to give us depth in squad and play:

Howard

Coleman
Jagielka
Heitinga
Baines

Drenthe
Kranjcar
Felliani
Pienaar

Barkley
Barrios/Defoe

[ollieefc1878]

here is a list of players in the prem on a bosman this summer. btw this list hasnt been updated since december.





 ARSENAL
     
Manuel Almunia 19 May 1977 Goalkeeper
Lukasz Fabianski 18 Apr 1985 Goalkeeper
Vito Mannone 2 Mar 1988 Goalkeeper
Tomas Rosicky 4 Oct 1980 Midfielder
Andrei Arshavin 29 May 1981 Midfielder


 ASTON VILLA     
Brad Guzan 9 Sep 1984Goalkeeper
Andy Marshall 14 Apr 1975 Goalkeeper
Habib Beye19 Oct 1977Defender
Carlos Cuellar23 Aug 1981Defender
Shane Lowry 12 Jun 1989 Defender
Emile Heskey 11 Jan 1978Striker


 BLACKBURN
     
Michel Salgado 22 Oct 1975Defender
David Dunn 27 Dec 1979Midfielder
Herold Goulon12 Jun 1988Midfielder
Vince Grella 5 Oct 1979Midfielder
Josh Morris 30 Sep 1991 Midfielder
Keith Andrews 13 Sep 1980 Midfielder
Nick Blackman 11 Nov 1989 Striker
Junior Hoilett 5 Jun 1990 Striker
Jason Roberts 25 Jan 1978 Striker


 BOLTON
     
Jussi Jaaskelainen 19 Apr 1975 Goalkeeper
Gary Cahill 19 Dec 1985 Defender
Ricardo Gardner 25 Sep 1978 Defender
Zat Knight 2 May 1980 Defender
Sam Ricketts 11 Oct 1981 Defender
Paul Robinson 14 Dec 1978 Defender
Gretar Steinsson 9 Jan 1982 Defender
Sean Davis 20 Sep 1979 Midfielder
Martin Petrov 15 Jan 1979 Midfielder
Robbie Blake 4 Mar 1976 Striker
Kevin Davies 26 Mar 1977 Striker
Ivan Klasnic
 29 Jan 1980
 Striker
Tope Obadeyi
 29 Oct 1989
 Striker


 CHELSEA
     
Henrique Hilario 21 Oct 1975 Goalkeeper
Jose Bosingwa
 24 Aug 1982
 Defender
Florent Malouda 13 Jun 1980 Midfielder
Didier Drogba
 11 Mar 1978
 Striker
Salomon Kalou 5 Aug 1985
 Striker



 EVERTON
     
Tim Howard 6 Mar 1979 Goalkeeper
Marcus Hahnemann
 15 Jun 1972
 Goalkeeper
Sylvain Distin
 16 Dec 1977
 Defender
James McFadden
 14 Apr 1983
 Striker
Louis Saha
 8 Aug 1978
 Striker


 FULHAM
     
Mark Schwarzer
 6 Oct 1972
 Goalkeeper
Csaba Somogyi
 7 Apr 1985
 Goalkeeper
Zdenek Grygera
 14 May 1980
 Defender
Stephen Kelly 6 Sep 1983
 Defender
Danny Murphy
 18 Mar 1977
 Midfielder
Alexander Kacaniklic 13 Aug 1991 Midfielder
Andy Johnson
 10 Feb 1981
 Striker


 LIVERPOOL
     
Fabio Aurelio
 24 Sep 1979 Defender


 MAN CITY
     
Stuart Taylor 28 Nov 1980
 Goalkeeper
Owen Hargreaves
 20 Jan 1981
 Midfielder


 MAN UNITED     
Tomasz Kuszczak
 20 Mar 1982 Goalkeeper
 
Darron Gibson
 25 Oct 1987 Midfielder
Ryan Giggs
 29 Nov 1973
 Midfielder
Dimitar Berbatov *
 30 Jan 1981
 Striker
Michael Owen
 14 Dec 1979
 Striker

* Sir Alex Ferguson has said the club will activate a clause to renew Berbatov's contract, but until that has officially taken place, he remains scheduled to be out of contract at the end of the season.

 NEWCASTLE
     
Steve Harper 14 Mar 1975 Goalkeeper
Tamas Kadar
 14 Mar 1990
 Defender
Danny Guthrie 18 Apr 1987
 Midfielder
Alan Smith 28 Oct 1980
 Midfielder
Peter Lovenkrands 29 Jan 1980
 Striker


 NORWICH
     
Declan Rudd 16 Jan 1991
 Goalkeeper
Adam Drury 29 Aug 1978
 Defender
Zak Whitbread 4 Mar 1984
 Defender
Simeon Jackson
 28 Mar 1987
 Striker
Aaron Wilbraham 21 Oct 1979
 Striker


 QPR
     
Radek Cerny
 18 Feb 1974
 Goalkeeper
Danny Gabbidon
 8 Aug 1979
 Defender
Fitz Hall
 20 Dec 1980
 Defender
Clint Hill 19 Oct 1978
 Defender
Bruno Perone
 6 July 1987
 Defender
Danny Shittu
 2 Sep 1980
 Defender
Akos Buzsaky
 7 May 1982
 Midfielder
Lee Cook
 3 Aug 1982
 Midfielder
Kieron Dyer
 29 Dec 1978 Midfielder
Hogan Ephraim
 31 Mar 1988
 Midfielder
Patrick Agyemang
 20 Sep 1980
 Striker
Alessandro Pellicori 22 Jul 1971 Striker
Angelo Balanta 1 Jul 1990 Striker


 STOKE
     
Carlo Nash
 13 Sep 1973
 Goalkeeper
Jonathan Woodgate 22 Jan 1980
 Defender
Danny Collins 6 Aug 1980 Defender
Salif Diao
 10 Feb 1977
 Midfielder
Matthew Lund
 21 Nov 1990
 Midfielder
Tom Soares
 10 Jul 1986
 Midfielder
Michael Tonge
 7 Apr 1983
 Midfielder
Rory Delap 6 Jul 1976 Midfielder
Danny Pugh 19 Oct 1982 Midfielder
Ricardo Fuller
 31 Oct 1979
 Striker
Mamady Sidibe
 18 Dec 1979
 Striker


 SUNDERLAND     
Craig Gordon 31 Dec 1982 Goalkeeper
Nyron Nosworthy 11 Oct 1980 Defender
Jack Colback 24 Oct 1989 Midfielder
Jordan Cook 20 Mar 1990 Striker
Ryan Noble 11 Jun 1991 Striker


 SWANSEA
     
Vangelis Moras
 26 Aug 1981
 Defender
Ashley Richards
 12 Apr 1991
 Defender
Kemy Agustien
 20 Aug 1986
 Midfielder
Ferrie Bodde
 5 May 1982
 Midfielder
Thomas Butler
 25 Apr 1981
 Midfielder
David Cotterill
 4 Dec 1987 Midfielder
Mark Gower
 5 Oct 1978
 Midfielder


 TOTTENHAM
     
Carlo Cudicini
 6 Sep 1973
 Goalkeeper
Heurelho Gomes
 15 Feb 1981
 Goalkeeper
Ledley King
 12 Oct 1980
 Defender


 WEST BROM
     
Luke Daniels
 5 Jan 1988
 Goalkeeper
Marton Fulop 3 May 1983
 Goalkeeper
Nicky Shorey
 19 Feb 1981
 Defender
Joe Mattock 15 May 1990 Defender
Steven Reid 10 Mar 1981 Midfielder
Paul Scharner
 11 Mar 1980
 Midfielder
Somen Tchoyi
 29 Mar 1983
 Midfielder
Jerome Thomas
 23 Mar 1983 Midfielder
Roman Bednar
 26 Mar 1983
 Striker
Marc-Antoine Fortune
 2 Jul 1981
 Striker


 WIGAN
     
Mike Pollitt 29 Feb 1972 Goalkeeper
Chris Kirkland 2 May 1981 Goalkeeper
Maynor Figueroa
 2 May 1983
 Defender
Mohamed Diame
 14 Jun 1987 Midfielder
Jordi Gomez
 24 May 1985
 Midfielder
David Jones
 4 Nov 1984
 Midfielder
Hendry Thomas 23 Feb 1985
 Midfielder
Hugo Rodallega
 25 Jul 1985
 Striker


 WOLVES
     
Jody Craddock 25 Jul 1975 Defender

[Jimmywhack]

Some blasts from the past there

[Verminator]

Ideally;

In;
Gordon (back-up seeing as Mucha will more than likely leave) - Free
Pienaar (Permanently)
Denis (Permanently)
Drenthe (Permanently) (can't see that one though)
Rodallega - Free
Pranjic - Free
Manolas - Free
Hoilett (or at least have a go) - Free

Out;
McFadden
Mucha
Distin
Yobo

[Silas]

Ideally;

In;
Gordon (back-up seeing as Mucha will more than likely leave) - Free
Pienaar (Permanently)
Denis (Permanently)
Drenthe (Permanently) (can't see that one though)
Rodallega - Free
Pranjic - Free
Manolas - Free
Hoilett (or at least have a go) - Free

Out;
McFadden
Mucha
Distin

Wouldn't argue with much of that but would keep Distin, he should be getting to the point were he is backup rather than first choice though. 

[Jimmywhack]

Ideally;

In;
Gordon (back-up seeing as Mucha will more than likely leave) - Free
Pienaar (Permanently)
Denis (Permanently)
Drenthe (Permanently) (can't see that one though)
Rodallega - Free
Pranjic - Free
Manolas - Free
Hoilett (or at least have a go) - Free

Out;
McFadden
Mucha
Distin

i would take that. problem with free transfers tho is wages

[Verminator]

Wouldn't argue with much of that but would keep Distin, he should be getting to the point were he is backup rather than first choice though. 

I'd keep him too, but seeing as we haven't heard anything about a contract offer I just can't see him still being here next season.

[Silas]

I'd keep him too, but seeing as we haven't heard anything about a contract offer I just can't see him still being here next season.

He will be offered a years extension on a reduced wage I would imagine, can see him rejecting considering his good form.

[Verminator]

i would take that. problem with free transfers tho is wages

We'd get a small fee for Mucha which could be sacrificed towards the wage bill. There's also the fair amount of high-earning players we've let go over the last year.

[minty]

Plus we might get a few coppers for Yobo.

Don't know why pranjic would want to come if he's unlikely to get first team football. Not keen on him as a left wing and a 30 year old full international as back up to baines is a bit much.

Rodders out and a couple of wingers in would do nicely. Imagine moyes would bring in another central midfielder as well though seen as he'll probably stick to playing Barkley out wide where he has less defensive responsibility (as he did with gosling) and Osman may need to play out wide on occasion too.

Agree that it's key Coleman moves in to defense asap.