Although the Allams said that the money will not be reinvested, I'm sure that we will either have some of the playing budget left or they will allow us to sign one creative midfielder. Possible candidates for the role are: Luigi Bruins FREE Ravel Morrisson LOAN Paul Pogba LOAN Jason Koumas FREE Henri Lansbury LOAN Sean Davis LOAN Joes Baxter LOAN Simon Davies LOAN Jonjo Shelvey LOAN Daniel Pacheco LOAN Danny Guthrie TRANSFER/LOAN Alan Smith FREE Hogan Ephraim LOAN/TRANSFER Petter Vaagen Moen LOAN/TRANSFER Akos Buzsaky LOAN/TRANSFER Dean Whitehead TRANSFER/LOAN Michael Tonge TRANSFER Tom Soares TRANSFER/LOAN Thoughts please
We will sign a central defender, probably also a striker, but we're not exactly short of central midfielders, we've already got Cairney, Evans, McKenna, Olofinjana, Harper and the option of using Koren when Stewart returns.
Oli may well go and if he does, then we may look at adding someone else, but I don't expect to see Harper going anywhere. Donny just signed Milan Lalkovic on loan from Chelsea, he can play either wing, attacking midfield, or as a striker and scored 6 in 17 appearances for Chelsea reserves last season, he sounds like a handy lad to have in your squad.
But we do have room to manouvre in the loan market and with still 3 places remaining I think we'll see a defender, a midfielder and a striker.
Cannot see OLI going anywhere until Jan as he needs to prove his fitness first. I would like to see O'Conner from Scunny. Like La Fondra he would not cost much and is cheap on wages. Lives pretty close to Hull anyway. Thought thet Lansbury had signed for Norwich City now ???
We've already got too many centre midfielders. I really dont think we'll sign anyone for there until Oli goes too.
He needs to work on his defensive side. Also Nige has been saying that he doesn't want to put too much pressure on Cairney, so I think it's neccessary for us to sign a creative midfielder to take the pressure off him and someone he can learn from.
And Koren and Oli. We really arent using the former to his best and when Cam comes back he'll be out wide, plus I can defo see the latter playing until he leaves. It really isnt the same as the Jimmy Bullsh1t scenario.
Alan Smith: 1) You'll get 100% effort every game. 2) Anxious to kick start his career 3) Mid Field or Striker - With a Man U pedigree. 4) Will piss off TWS if we sign him.
