by Penguins » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:10 am
1) Well, accoring to me Kewell is a player you can't count on.
Is never injury free and when you become older with so few games the last seasons it becomes easier to become injured again.
2)Leto for 2 million is in the same prece range as gonzales and not someone I'd like to rely on too much. Know very little of what he has achived and hasn't played at the highest lvl.
I don't really see Risse as a left winger at all. besides a good shot his crossing and dribbling is poor at best.
Aurelio is still more a LB than LW and he is very injury prone and hasn't shown much at all beacuse of that.
3)Just cause Rafa says "we haven't been able to spend £10-15m on individual players before", doesn't mean he will spend that. Ribery cost 17 million, Anderson, 17 and Nani 14 beacuse of his clause.
Those are the top class midfielders that has been sold so far.
WHY must then the top class we buy be so much cheaper?
4) I belive we must spend 15-20 million on 2 wingers each if we are to compete. We have no top class wingers right now and we need 1 for each side. At least I think so. About buying another one for 6-8 all comes back to Kewell.
5) No meaningful PL games? So Arsenal at home was what then? We won 4-1 and he was brilliant. He has been more than solid and we have lost 1 game with him in the side Vs Milan. I believe he has shown enough to warrant a starting place and that we pick up our option on him.
6)
A realiable top class striker would cost 20m+.
owen who hasn't played for 2 seasons for 9m isn't good business. Etoó, tevez, torres, villa are player we need if we are to compete. At least I think so and all will cost alot.
Bent, Owen etc is not enough and won't improve our squad to any greater extent.
7) Our defense was awful at the start of last season. But sure when all are fit our defense is strong.
But we were very lucky last season.
Finnan, carra, Agger, Risse all had very few injuries.
Try Arbeloa, Hyppia, Palleta, Aurelio as backup. I shudder at the thought. That is not title challenging depth.
8) I might not believe that so many players will come, but I believe it is needed cause of the lack of depth in all places except CM. And if we sold a few players which we can, finances would permit more strenghtening.