GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Well it seems according to some that Moyes is very close to a new £12m contract and a £25m budget. Now I'm all in a twist because the paper involved is high on my list of integrity, but then it mentions that we are looking at a striker as our priority, where that is clearly not the case.
But let's get back to that. The Times are the paper in question:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article4193324.ece
I was around 80% sure Moyes was going to sign his contract, that has now gone up to around 90%, somebody somewhere knows whats going on, and they know that the Kirkby deal is a goer, Moyes is going to sign a very attractive contract, and will have a decent budget to buy 3 or 4 players.
Now if we look at the squad, and I'm not going to list them here, but we know who we have and where are strengths are. We need midfielders, we don't need defenders, we don't need strikers and we don't need keepers really. So depending on whether or not we retain Arteta we are going to need to sign 3 - 4 new midfielders, and I would say at least one of them is going to be a regular (to replace Cars).
We can also add into the squad the likes of Rodwell, Kissock and Gosling. That's 3 very exciting young players, we already have Arteta, Pienaar, Osman, dare I say it VDM (who is just a bad smell and won't go away), maybe one last chance - who knows. It would be a major shock if he got his [Poor language removed] together, but a nice one. We also have Cahill, and Neville. So add players like Huddlestone, Sidwell, and perhaps Fernandes. Those 3 would cost about £15m - which would leave Moyes with a decent amount to play with to add numbers. Maybe even a couple of loan signings.
Moyes apparently is on holiday, so I expect as soon as the Euro's are over, its going to get a bit heated on here. Danny/Dylan I hope the server can cope with it, because I got sick of going to Blue Kipper's splash page - Internal System Error!!!!
But let's get back to that. The Times are the paper in question:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article4193324.ece
I was around 80% sure Moyes was going to sign his contract, that has now gone up to around 90%, somebody somewhere knows whats going on, and they know that the Kirkby deal is a goer, Moyes is going to sign a very attractive contract, and will have a decent budget to buy 3 or 4 players.
Now if we look at the squad, and I'm not going to list them here, but we know who we have and where are strengths are. We need midfielders, we don't need defenders, we don't need strikers and we don't need keepers really. So depending on whether or not we retain Arteta we are going to need to sign 3 - 4 new midfielders, and I would say at least one of them is going to be a regular (to replace Cars).
We can also add into the squad the likes of Rodwell, Kissock and Gosling. That's 3 very exciting young players, we already have Arteta, Pienaar, Osman, dare I say it VDM (who is just a bad smell and won't go away), maybe one last chance - who knows. It would be a major shock if he got his [Poor language removed] together, but a nice one. We also have Cahill, and Neville. So add players like Huddlestone, Sidwell, and perhaps Fernandes. Those 3 would cost about £15m - which would leave Moyes with a decent amount to play with to add numbers. Maybe even a couple of loan signings.
Moyes apparently is on holiday, so I expect as soon as the Euro's are over, its going to get a bit heated on here. Danny/Dylan I hope the server can cope with it, because I got sick of going to Blue Kipper's splash page - Internal System Error!!!!
